25 of The World's most influential companies

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1. Apple (Steven Jobs)
Location: Cupertino, Calif.
Industry: Information Technology
Annual Sales: $24 billion

2. Unilever (Patrick Cescau)
Location: London
Industry: Consumer Products
Annual Sales: $52 billion

3. JPMorgan Chase (Jamie Dimon)
Location: New York
Industry: Banking
Annual Sales: $64.5 billion

4. Wal-Mart (Samuel Robson Walton)
Location: Bentonville, Ark.
Industry: Retailing
Annual Sales: $379 billion

5. News Corp. (Rupert Murdoch)
Location: New York
Industry: Media
Annual Sales: $33 billion

6. Toyota (Fujio Cho)
Location: Aichi, Japan
Industry: Automobiles
Annual Sales: $283 billion

7. Saudi Aramco (Khalid al Falih)
Location: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Energy/Oil
Annual Sales: $210 billion (est.)

8. Monsanto (Hugh Grant)
Location: St. Louis
Industry: Food Products
Annual Sales: $8.6 billion

9. Huawei (Ren Zhengfei)
Location: Shenzhen, China
Industry: Information Technology
Annual Sales: $12.6 billion

10. Google (Larry Page & Sergey Brin)
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Industry: Information Technology
Annual Sales: $16.6 billion

11. 3M (George W. Buckley)
Location: St. Paul, Minn.
Industry: Consumer Goods
2007 Sales: $24.5 billion

12. Autodesk (Carol A. Bartz)
Location: San Rafael, CA
Industry: Computer Software
2007 Sales: $2.2 billion

13. China Mobile (Wang Jianzhou)
Location: Hong Kong, China
Industry: Telecom
2007 Sales: $52 billion

14. Jarden (Martin Franklin)
Location: Rye, NY
Industry: Consumer Goods
2007 Sales: $4.6 billion

15. Intuit (Scott Cook)
Location: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Computer Software
2007 Sales: $2.7 billion

16. Japan Steel Works
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Industry: Steel
2007 Sales: $1.8 billion

17. Nielsen (David L. Calhoun)
Location: New York, NY
Industry: Marketing Research
2007 Sales: $4.7 billion

18. Microsoft (Bill Gates)
Location: Redmond, Wash.
Industry: Computer Hardware and Software
2007 Sales: $51 billion

19. Sirius XM (Mel Karmazin, Gary Parsons, Scott Greenstein)
Location: New York, NY
Industry: Media
2007 Sales: $922 million

20. YKK
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Industry: Manufacturing
2007 Sales: $5.6 billion

21. Li & Fung Ltd.(Victor Kwok-king Fung)
Location: Hong Kong
Industry: Supply Chain Management Services
2007 Sales: NA

22. Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg)
Location: Palo Alto, Calif.
Industry: Information Technology
2007 Sales: $150 million

23. HCL Technologies (Vineet Nayar)
Location: Noida, India
Industry: IT Services
2007 Sales: $1.9 billion (for year ended June 30)

24. Craigslist (Jim Buckmaster)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Online Classifieds
2007 Sales: NA

25. SKS Microfinance (Muhammad Yunus)
Location: Hyderabad, India
Industry: Financial Services
2007 Sales: $42.5 million (for year ended March 31)