Fortune 500

·         On July 9, 2008 Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) emerged as the top Indian private company on the latest Fortune 500 Global list, where presence of India has grown to seven firms with a debut by Tata Steel.

·         The list, released by the US business magazine Fortune, includes two private (RIL and Tata Steel) and five public sector companies from India, topped by Indian Oil Corp (IOC), and including BPCL, HPCL, ONGC and SBI.

Mission IAS’2009

·         IOC is the top-ranked Indian company among both private and public sectors at 116th position in the worldwide list, topped by US retail giant Wal-Mart.

·         Besides making its debut at 315th position, Ratan Tata-led Tata Steel has also been named as the company with highest revenue growth of over 353 per cent over the past year.

·         Tata Steel recorded 17th fastest growth in profit among all the companies globally

·         RIL, which has been ranked at 30th in terms of revenue growth, has jumped 63 places to grab the 206th rank. SBI has been ranked at 21st place in terms of revenue growth.

·         RIL is ranked second after IOC among all Indian companies and is followed by Bharat Petroleum (287), Hindustan Petroleum (290), ONGC (335) and State Bank of India (380).