Re:Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exce...
by occamrazor on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:22PM
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Could you name some of these private companies? I can’t think of any private (i.e. neither public or government owned) company comparable to Apple, Walmart, or large oil companies.
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Re:Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exce...
by briankelly on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:47PM
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There's Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, which control a large amount of the global agriculture trade (and 1/4 of the main cast of Seinfeld ;) - and there's not a whole lot of insight into at least Cargill.
Re:Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exce...
by boldslogan on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:26PM
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Inter IKEA. iirc they own, among the largest furniture company in the world, a bank, real estate...and so on. And they are very private...
Re:Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exce...
by GCA10 on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:09PM
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Ikea's annual revenue is about 38 billion Euros. That would rank it about #200 on the Fortune 500 global list, in terms of revenue. By Fortune's tally, at least, all of the top 10 are either state-controlled energy companies, auto companies, WalMart or Berkshire Hathaway.
Big, fully private companies are quite fascinating. (I think we're settling on a definition that involves a tight inner circle of ownership, with no stock-market listing and no government control). But they are pretty lightly represented in revenue/size-based lists like the Fortune 500.