Wal-Mart is the world's largest company

Forbes magazine ranked again the world's 500 largest companies. The first became the Wal-Mart shop network. The Royal Dutch Shell oil company, which was the world leader slipped back to the second place, followed by Exxon Mobil on third.

Wal-Mart has the most employees among the listed companies with 2.1 million employees.
Among the first 10, we can find only two U.S. companies, while three Chinese companies could enter the list.
Russian Gazprom has the largest profit with 24.6 billion dollars – reports Magyar Nemzet.