Forbes recently released its annual list of the world’s 2,000 largest and most powerful public companies. The list showed dominance of China and US based companies as they constitue the top 10 in the list. The list has 56 Indian companies.
Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries leads the pack of 56 Indian industried in the list by securing 121st rank, improving from last year's 142nd. Last year too, India's 56 companies were in the list led by Reliance Industries. Reliance, with a market value of USD 50.6 billion and assets worth USD 91.5 billion is followed by State Bank of India which is ranked 149 and has a 23.3 billion dollar market value.
The other Indian companies on the list are Oil and Natural Gas ranked (220), ICICI Bank (266), HDFC Bank (275), Indian Oil (371), Tata Consultancy Services (385), NTPC (400), Bharti Airtel (453), Axis Bank (484), Infosys (590), Bharat Petroleum (650), Wipro (755, Tata Steel (1178) and Adani Enterprises (1993). Also making to the list are Coal India (465), Larsen and Toubro (505), ITC (781), Kotak Mahindra Bank (899), Mahindra and Mahindra (901) and HCL Technologies (943).
