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Re:Which company is the biggest? A primer on corporate valua... by mkinnan on Monday February 14, 2011 @10:56PM (#2220072)
Wow! This article certainly gives you a different perspective on how companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft really are small as compared to giants like GE, Exxon, etc.

What blows me away is that Wal-Mart has 2 million+ employees! A piece of information that would be interesting as a comparison is the number of government employees there are in different countries ...

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Re:Which company is the biggest? A primer on corporate valua... by thematt on Monday February 14, 2011 @11:21PM (#2220131)
To put that in perspective even further, that means Wal-Mart constitutes about 1% of the American workforce.
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Re:Which company is the biggest? A primer on corporate valua... by MikeCapone on Monday February 14, 2011 @11:47PM (#2220186)
And this doesn't count some of Walmart's main suppliers/logistics providers, like McLane (which is part of Berkshire Hathaway).
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