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Top 100 Companies
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“Following on from the success of our Top 100 Women and Top 100 Leaders, this list nominated by you, the readers, encompasses a mix of sectors...”
elcome to Supply Chain Digital’s Top 100 Companies. In the pages of this supplement, you will find the most innovative, inspirational and strategically smart businesses on the planet. Following on from the success of our Top 100 Women and Top 100 Leaders, this list nominated by you, the readers, encompasses a mix of sectors from aviation, logistics, and Supply Chain, to tech and IT, manufacturing, and food and beverages - to cite but a handful.
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Supply Chain Welcome to Supply Chain Digital’s Top 100 Companies. Between them, the businesses within these pages shape the day-to-day world we live in: the tech we use at home and work; the food we eat; the drinks we quaff; and the products we order and are delivered to our doors.
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he businesses in this list were nominated by you, our readers. Why readers choose some businesses and not others is always interesting. Our best guess is that people use different metrics, or that they’ve simply gone with something far less quantifiable: ‘feel’. However our many readers arrived at their nominations, there can be no disputing that this is a mighty list of businesses, with everyone on this list thoroughly deserving their place. We hope you enjoy working your way through it from 100 all the way to your top choice.
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95
Year Founded: 2002 Industry: Automation, AI
Year Founded: 2004 Industry: Supply Chain
Year Founded: 1957 Industry: Logistics
Nulogy
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Everstream Analytics Year Founded: 2000 Industry: Risk analysis
Maine Pointe
“Companies are faced with the need to reassess the entire Supply Chain as part of a long-term rebalancing of their pandemic recovery” Jeff Staub CEO at Maine Pointe
TFI International
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Descartes Systems Year Founded: 1981 Industry: Logistics
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93
Year Founded: 1950 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 2012 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 2014 Industry: Tech / Logistics
Hitachi Transport System
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Newcold
Project44
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89
86
Year Founded: 2021 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1981 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1956 Industry: Logistics
GXO Logistics
Kerry Logistics
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88
Year Founded: 1976 Industry: Supply Chain / Logistics
Year Founded: 1837 Industry: Supply Chain / Logistics
DPD Group
Hermes
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87
Year Founded: 2006 Industry: Supply Chain / Procurement
Year Founded: 1925 Industry: Supply Chain
NHS Supply Chain
Linfox
85
Crane Worldwide Logistics Year Founded: 2008 Industry: Logistics
Wincanton
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Lufthansa Cargo
Year Founded: 1994 Industry: Logistics
“My motto is 'Ship, shipmate, self.' If you love a corporation above yourself, then this is the place for you.” Girish Rishi CEO at BlueYonder
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Blue Yonder
Year Founded: 1985 Industry: Supply Chain
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81
78
Year Founded: 2006 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1961 Industry: Supply Chain
Year Founded: 1930 Industry: Logistics
Coyote Logistics
J.B. Hunt
Dachser
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77
Year Founded: 2013 Industry: Tech / Freight Forwarding
Year Founded: 1932 Industry: Supply Chain / Procurement
Year Founded: 1871 Industry: Logistics
Flexport
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Hellmann Worldwide Logistics
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70
Year Founded: 1983 Industry: Professional services
Year Founded: 1988 MD: Thomas Knudsen Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1979 Industry: Logistics
Alvarez & Marsal
Toll Group
Expeditors
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69
Year Founded: 1999 Industry: Supply Chain / Procurement
Year Founded: 1909 Industry: Infrastructure
Year Founded: 1979 Industry: Logistics
GEP Worldwide
Balfour Beatty
Agility
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68
Year Founded: 1937 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1986 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1990 Industry: Logistics
Nippon Express
Bolloré Logistics
GEODIS
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61
Year Founded: 1874 Industry: Brewing
Year Founded: 1976 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 2008 Industry: Brewing
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60
Year Founded: 1884 Industry: Management Consulting
Year Founded: 1928 Industry: Food
Year Founded: 2002 Industry: Software
Carlsberg
Oliver Wyman
DSV
General Mills
AB InBev
Infor
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59
Year Founded: 1914 Industry: Analytics / Tech
Year Founded: 2007 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1984 Industry: Tech
Booz Allen Hamilton
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Lenovo
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53
Year Founded: 2007 Industry: Logistics
Year Founded: 1887 Industry: Biopharmaceuticals
Year Founded: 1904 Industry: Logistics
CEVA Logistics
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Henkel
Year Founded: 1876 Industry: Adhesives
Bristol Myers Squibb
“The science is clear - business as usual is not an option, and the pace we had in the past cannot be the pace in the years to come.”
A.P. Moller - Maersk
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Alibaba Group Year Founded: 1999 Industry: Tech
Helena Helmersson CEO at H&M
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Year Founded: 1872 Industry: Personal care products
Year Founded: 1947 Industry: Fashion retail
Year Founded: 1997 Industry: Brewing / Distilling
Kimberly Clark
H&M
Diageo
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Year Founded: 1907 Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Year Founded: 1974 Industry: Retail
UPS
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The creative and logistic
UPS keeps the Supply Chain
mind behind Zara, Pull&Bear,
moving. It is a leader in logistics,
Bershka and more, Inditex
distribution, transportation and
sells in over 200 markets
freight, as well as consulting,
and online platforms.
customs brokerage and global trade services.
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47
Year Founded: 1902 Industry: Tobacco
Year Founded: 1979 Industry: IT
BAT
Gartner
Leading tobacco and nicotine
IT company Gartner is a trusted
company, British American
advisor in over 100 countries,
Tobacco, is expanding its
providing practitioner-sourced
portfolio and exploring new,
and data-driven insight,
potentially reduced-risk
enabling businesses to make
products, to protect customers
smarter decisions.
and the planet.
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Inditex
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Year Founded: 1973 Industry: Consulting
Year Founded: 1865 Industry: Telecommunications
Bain & Company
Nokia
Global consultancy business
Many people entered into the
Bain & Company works across
mobile phone world with a
38 countries and has been
Nokia product and the business
awarded a gold rating
is still going strong, building
from EcoVadis, for its
productive, sustainable and
support of racial equity
inclusive phones.
and the environment.
“It's our corporate responsibility to contribute to climate protection efforts.” Martin Brudermüller CEO at BASF
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Year Founded: 1955 Industry: Restaurants
Year Founded: 1865 Industry: Chemicals
McDonald's
BASF
McDonald's employs 1.9mn
In a mix of economic sensibility,
people worldwide, with 90%
environmental protection and
of restaurants owned by
social responsibility, is
independent local business
BASF - using chemicals,
people. In a sustainability shift,
materials, nutrition and
the company has recently
agricultural solutions for a
explored vegan food.
sustainable future.
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Year Founded: 1806 Industry: Consumer Goods
Year Founded: 1969 Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
Colgate-Palmolive
DHL Supply Chain
For its customers, their pets
The biggest contract logistics
and the planet, Colgate-
specialist on the planet, DHL
Palmolive is manufacturing
combines global and local
a healthier future for all,
knowledge to create customised
as a leading health and
logistics solutions covering
wellness giant.
warehousing, transportation and integrated services.
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AstraZeneca
Year Founded: 1999 Industry: Pharmaceuticals The science-led
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Mondelēz International
Year Founded: 2012 Industry: Food Production
biopharmaceutical company
Behind favourites such as Oreo
believes that science defines who
and Trident gum, is Mondelēz
we are. The company develops
International. Faced with a
life-changing medicine across
growing obesity health crisis,
Oncology, Cardiovascular &
Mondelēz is now helping
Metabolic Disease (CVMD).
consumers ‘snack right’.
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Honeywell
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IKEA
KPMG
The iconic Swedish company
Audit, tax and advisory service
has taken sustainability in the
KPMG offers its advanced
Fortune 100 technology
Supply Chain seriously in its
skills and resources to its
company Honeywell teams
quest to help create organised
professional clients, managing
engineers with scientists to
homes across the world, with
both international issues and
manufacture current in-demand
thoughtfully-designed and
opportunities.
items across the safety, security
affordable furnishing.
Year Founded: 1906 Industry: Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing
Year Founded: 1943 Industry: Retail
Year Founded: 1987 Industry: Financial Services
and energy sectors.
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Starbucks
SAP
The coffee chain titan has a shop
Helping the world run better
on every highstreet worth its
and improve people’s lives,
salted caramel swirl. Starbucks
SAP is driven by this purpose,
purchases, roasts and serves its
promising to drive innovation
award winning beans across
that helps its customers become
80 countries.
leaders in their field.
Year Founded: 1971 Industry: Retail
Year Founded: 1972 Industry: Computer Software
“Every opportunity that comes your way you have to take very, very seriously because opportunities are limited.” Christian Klein CEO at SAP supplychaindigital.com
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Intel Corporation Year Founded: 1968 Industry: Technology
Driven by its mission to shape
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Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Year Founded: 1963 Industry: Consultant
the future of technology, Intel
Operating as a consultant for
Corporation harnesses AI,
over half a century, Boston
analytics, and cloud-to-edge
Consulting Group (BCG) is a
technology to further innovation.
partner of leading Supply Chain
“I'm incredibly grateful to our partners for the trust they have placed in me to lead this world class organisation.” Christoph Schweizer CEO at BCG
businesses, tackling important and complex challenges.
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Year Founded: 1836 Industry: Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing
Year Founded: 2013 Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Schneider Electric
delivering innovative medicines,
most of energy and resources,
AbbVie strives to have a positive
Schneider Electric drives digital
impact on people’s lives across a
transformation by integrating
variety of therapeutic areas.
energy technologies.
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Dedicated to discovering and
Empowering all to make the
world-leading process and
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Year Founded: 1890 Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
Year Founded: 1975 Industry: Technology
Operating for over 130 years,
181,000 worldwide employees,
Kuehne+Nagel is a world
Microsoft strives to empower
leading logistics company
people and organisations
with specific expertise in sea
to achieve more with
logistics, air logistics, road
digital transformation.
Kuehne+Nagel
Microsoft
Operating in 190 countries with
logistics, and contact logistics.
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Year Founded: 1909 Industry: Oil & Energy
Year Founded: 1962 Industry: Retail
bp
Walmart
Providing its customers with a
Founded over 5 years ago
diverse range of energy products
by Sam Walton, Walmart
and services around the
continues to be driven by
world, bp is committed to low
its commitment to helping
carbon electricity and energy,
customers save money so
convenience and mobility,
they can live better.
resilience, and hydrocarbon.
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24 XPO Logistics, Inc. Year Founded: 2011 Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
Quickly climbing the ranks in the last 10 years, XPO Logistics has become a world-class
25 L'Oréal
Year Founded: 1909 Industry: Beauty
transportation solution provider of some of the most successful companies in the world. XPO Logistics has a global network of 756 locations and 42,000 employees dedicated to doing satisfying work, helping shippers manage their Supply Chains most efficiently, using
As a leader in beauty, L'Oréal
advanced technology to
is a pioneer when it comes to
move goods.
beauty technology. For more
“For a decade, we’ve invested
than a century, L'Oréal has
in cutting-edge technology to
been dedicated to bringing
get the job done efficiently at
beauty to all.
the right price every time.”
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PwC
Year Founded: 1998 Industry: Consultant
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Capgemini
Year Founded: 1967 Industry: Information Technology Being a global leader in
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Tyson Foods
Year Founded: 1935 Industry: Food Manufacturing
For 23 years, PwC has been
technological transformation,
operating as a consultant building
Capgemini strives to ‘unleash
Producing food for over 80 years,
trust in society and solving
human energy through
Tyson Foods is committed to
important problems in the world.
technology for an inclusive and
pursuing truth and integrity to
sustainable future’.
create value for its shareholders,
Working alongside its customers, PwC helps those it
Customers of Capgemini
customers, team members, and
services from the strategy stages
benefit from the company’s
through to execution of sourcing
innovative cloud, data, AI,
needs. PwC’s core capabilities
connectivity, software, digital
Foods has been dedicated
include: cost reduction and
engineering and platform
to strengthening its Supply
transformation, supply and stock
solutions.
Chain, partnering with the likes
keeping unit (SKU) rationalisation,
Working alongside with its
our communities. Over the years, Tyson
of FoodLogiQ to improve its
operating model redesign
customers in the Supply Chain,
Supply Chain visibility, streamline
and transformation, process
Capgemini helps its clients to
supplier management, and
optimisation, data insights and
tackle the complex challenges
enhance quality issue tracking
analytics, and many more.
of the modern Supply Chain.
and reporting.
“We work with clients
“Capgemini’s Digital Supply
“Tyson Foods strives to work
to transform their buying
Chain is a comprehensive service
with business partners who help
organisations, reduce cost,
that standardises and integrates
us elevate and enhance
improve margin and drive value
your Supply Chain master data
our performance.”
through effective sourcing.”
with planning, execution, and insights, based on a proven and comprehensive framework.”
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General Electric
C.H. Robinson
Year Founded: 1892 Industry: Mechanical/Industrial Engineering For almost 130 years, General Electric has been rising to the challenge of ‘building a world that works’. General Electric has been dedicated to innovation and technology, to help the world be more efficient, reliable, and safe. “GE’s people are diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest level of integrity and focus to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for its customers.” Recognising the importance of suppliers and critical partners in creating its world class solutions, General Electric is committed to providing its suppliers with the tools and services to ensure
Year Founded: 1905 Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
“I've got the energy to do what it takes. This is the challenge of a lifetime, given where we find the company today.” H Lawrence Culp Jr CEO at General Electric
Solving logistics challenges large and small, C.H. Robinson operates around the world and across multiple industries in the logistics space for 116 years. “Our global suite of services accelerates trade to seamlessly deliver the products and goods that drive the world’s economy.” Harnessing a combination of multi-modal transportation management system and expertise, C.H. Robinson uses its advantages to deliver smarter solutions for its customers and contract carriers. “As a responsible global citizen,
their suppliers are more efficient,
we are also proud to contribute
more knowledgeable, and can
millions of dollars to support
sustain a close and productive
causes that matter to our
relationship with General Electric.
company, our Foundation and our employees.”
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18 Unilever
Year Founded: 1872 Industry: Consumer Goods
Renowned for its Supply Chain and sustainability efforts,
17 Pfizer
Year Founded: 1848 Industry: Biopharmaceutical
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Heineken NV
Year Founded: 1864 Industry: Brewing
Heineken is a Dutch multinational brewing company that was founded in Amsterdam
Unilever has been operating as a consumer goods company
Though Pfizer has
in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan
for over 140 years. Unilever is
been operating in the
Heineken. Heineken now owns
driven by its mission to make
biopharmaceutical industry
165 breweries in 70 countries.
sustainable living commonplace.
for 173 year in America, the
It produces 348 international,
company’s global boom took
regional, local and speciality
been a pioneer, innovator, and
off in 2020 as a result of its
beers and ciders, and employs
future maker in the industry.
dedication and rapid response
around 85,000 people.
Since its founding, Unilever has
“We want to do more good for our planet and our society – not just less harm. We want to act
to the outbreak of COVID-19 to find a vaccine. With a purpose to bring
Heineken was the largest brewer in the world until October 2016, when the merger
on the social and environmental
innovative medicines and
between Anheuser-Busch
issues facing the world and we
vaccines to patients and healthy
InBev and SABMiller pushed it
want to enhance people’s lives
individuals, the company takes
into second.
with our products.”
a rigorous, scientific approach
With global revenues of
to its global manufacturing and
23.894bn euros in 2019,
Supply Chain network. Pfizer
Heineken remains the top
harnesses data to inform its
brewer in Europe.
decision making and processes to create its highly efficient and optimised manufacturing and supply network.
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Cisco Systems Year Founded: 1984 Industry: Tech
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Year Founded: 1989 Industry: Professional services
Year Founded: 1892 Industry: Soft drinks
EY
Coca-Cola Company
Ernst & Young Global is a
Coca-Cola was originally sold
Cisco Systems is a US tech
multinational professional
as a patent medicine, being
conglomerate based in San
services network with
invented in 1892. The drink's
Jose, California. It was a pioneer
headquarters in London, and
name refers to two of its original
company in the area that would
is considered one of the Big
ingredients: coca leaves, and
become known as Silicon Valley.
Four accounting firms. It most
kola nuts. Coke’s current formula
provides assurance, and tax
remains a trade secret.
Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware,
consulting and advisory services.
software, telecoms equipment
In recent years EY has expanded
concentrate that is sold to
and other high-tech services
into strategy, operations, HR,
licensed Coca-Cola bottlers
and products.
technology, and financial
throughout the world, who hold
services consulting.
exclusive territory contracts with
The company was founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and
The company comprises a
The company produces a
the company.
Sandy Lerner, both Stanford
network of member firms, which
University computer scientists.
are structured as separate legal
200 countries worldwide, with
They came up with the concept
entities in a partnership. In all, it
consumers drinking on average
of a local area network (LAN), to
has 312,250 employees in 700
more than 1.8bn cans a day. In
connect distant computers over
offices across 150 countries.
2020, the company was
a router system. By the time the company
The current incarnation of the business was formed in 1989 by
went public in 1990, Cisco
the merger of accounting firms,
had a market capitalization of
Ernst & Whinney and
US$224mn. By the end of the
Arthur Young & Co.
dot-com boom in 2000, this had increased to $500 billion.
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Coke products are sold in
the world's sixth most valuable brand.
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Oracle Corporation Year Founded: 1977 Industry: Technology
Johnson & Johnson Year Founded: 1886 Industry: Pharmaceuticals / Healthcare Johnson & Johnson is a US multinational that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged-goods. It is one of only two US-based companies to have a prime credit rating higher than that of the United States government. J&J has its HQ in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and includes 250 subsidiary companies, with operations in 60 countries and products sold in 175 countries. It had worldwide sales of US$82.6bn during 2020. Its brands include household medications and first-aid supplies,
US-based Oracle is a multinational computer tech
“Keep learning - there is a difference between being educated and being intelligent.”
company based in Austin, Texas.
Alex Gorsky CEO at J&J
implement its products, which
In 2020 it was the second-largest software company by revenue. It sells database software and technology, cloud systems, and enterprise software products. It was co-founded by Larry Ellison, as Software Development Laboratories. Part of its early success arose from using the C programming language to meant they could be easily ported to different operating systems most of which support C. The company was called Oracle Systems until 1995, when it changed its name to Oracle Corporation.
including the Band-Aid Brand line of plasters, Tylenol medications, Johnson's baby products, and Neutrogena skin and beauty products. Its pharmaceutical arm is Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
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10 Nike
Year Founded: 1964 Industry: Sportswear
09 Accenture
Year Founded: 1989 Industry: Professional services The Irish-based multinational professional services company has 569,000 employees and specialises in IT services and consulting. In 2020 it reported revenues of US$44.33bn. Accenture's clients include 91 of the
Nike - named after the Greek goddess
Fortune Global 100, and more than three-
of victory - is the world's largest
quarters of the Fortune Global 500.
supplier of athletic shoes and apparel,
It began life as the business and
and a major manufacturer of sports
technology consulting division of accounting
equipment. It employs 76,700 people
firm, Arthur Andersen in the early 1950s,
worldwide. In 2020 it reported revenue
when it conducted a feasibility study for
of US$37.4bn. In 2020 the brand was
General Electric to install the a computer,
valued in excess of $32 billion,
the first in the US.
making it the most valuable among sports businesses. Thye famous Nike logo was designed
A clash between Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen meant Andersen Consulting had to change its name. In
in 1971 by graphic design student
2001, it adopted the name ‘Accenture’ -
Carolyn Davidson, who was approached
a blend of ‘Accent’ and ‘future’. The name
by Nike founder Phil Knight. Davidson
was submitted by Danish employee Kim
came up with the Nike Swoosh because
Petersen, as part of an internal competition.
it is fluid, and indicates movement and speed. She earned $35, for creating one of the most famous designs of all time.
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08 FedEx
Year Founded: 1971 Industry: Transportation / e-Commerce / Third-party logistics
07 Deloitte
Year Founded: 1845 Industry: Professional Services
FedEx Corporation is an American
Deloitte is a leading global provider
multinational conglomerate holding
of audit and assurance, consulting,
company specialising in transportation,
financial advisory, risk advisory, tax,
e-commerce and business services. It
and related services.
has its HQ in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a leader in the third-party
The company employs around 330,000 people in 150 countries and territories.
logistics industry. Among the services
Through its WorldClass initiative, the
it offers are: warehousing, inventory
company says that by 2030 it will be
and fulfillment; distribution; inventory
helping 50 million people, by developing
logistics; reverse logistics and returns;
job skills and improving educational
and repair and refurbishment.
outcomes.
The company was founded by Yale
It was founded by William Welch
graduate Frederick W. Smith, who
Deloitte in London in 1845 and expanded
based the idea on a term paper about a
into the United States in 1890. It merged
system designed for urgent deliveries.
with Haskins & Sells to form Deloitte
By 2015, FedEx was successful
Haskins & Sells in 1972, and then with
enough to acquire rival firm, TNT
Touche Ross in the US to form Deloitte
Express, for €4.4 billion (US$4.8 bn)
& Touche. It was later renamed Deloitte
as it looked to expand its operations
Touche Tohmatsu, which was then
in Europe.
abbreviated to Deloitte.
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Procter & Gamble
Year Founded: 1837 Industry: Consumer goods P&G was founded by brothers-inlaw William Procter, a candlemaker, and James Gamble, a soapmaker. Today, the company is the world’s largest producer of consumer goods, and employs 6,900 people worldwide.
05 IBM
Year Founded: 1911 Industry: Computers / Tech
According to the company's annual report, Pampers (a nappy) is the
IBM has operations in 171 countries. It was
company’s largest brand name. Other
founded in 1911, in Endicott, New York by
brands include detergents (Tide, Bounce,
Charles Ranlett Flint, as the Computing-
and Downy), personal grooming (Gillette
Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)
razors and Head & Shoulders shampoo),
and was renamed International Business
and toothpastes (Crest and Oral-B).
Machines in 1924.
It invests over US$2bn every year in
IBM makes and sells computer
research and development and has no
hardware and software, as well as
fewer than 37,000 active patents.
providing hosting and consulting services
P&G’s mission statement is: “We will provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve
in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The company is also a major research
the lives of the world's consumers, now
organization. Among its inventions
and for generations to come.”
are: automated teller machines (ATM), floppy disks, hard-disk drives, magnetic stripe cards, relational databases, the SQL programming language, and UPC barcodes. The IBM mainframe was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 1970s.
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04 Nestlé
Year Founded: 1866 Industry: Food and beverages Nestlé has more than 2,000 brands and is present in 186 countries. Brands include baby foods (Cerelac and Gerber),
03 PepsiCo
Year Founded: 1965 Industry: Food, snacks, beverages
bottled water (Perrier and San Pellegrino), breakfast cereals (Cheerios), chocolate and
Pepsi’s roots go back to 1898, when Caleb
confectionery, coffee, dairy and drinks.
Bradham, an entrepreneur from North
Nestlé started life as the Swiss Condensed Milk Company. Henri Nestlé developed infant food in 1867, and in
Carolina, created Pepsi-Cola and began offering it to his pharmacy customers. In 1965, Pepsi-Cola CEO Donald
1905 his company merged with Anglo-
Kendall and Herman Lay, CEO of Frito-
Swiss, to form what is now known as the
Lay, formed a single company, delivering
Nestlé Group.
salty snacks served alongside a sweet
The Nestlé Group's net profits rose
cola. Their vision led to what became one
from US$7bn in 2017 to roughly $12.7bn in
of the world's leading food and beverage
2020. The pandemic did not overly affect
companies: PepsiCo.
Nestlé. In lockdown, people bought more
PepsiCo products are consumed
packaged foods and also pet products,
more than one billion times a day in
which increased the company's sales.
200 countries and territories. PepsiCo generated $70 billion in net revenue in 2020, from a food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, PepsiCola, Quaker, Tropicana and SodaStream.
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02 TOP 100 COMPANIES
Apple Event
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Apple
Year Founded: 1976 Industry: Tech
Apple is the largest IT firm by revenue
In 2001, it opened a retail chain, the Apple
(US$274.5bn in 2020) and has previously been the
Stores, and with its iPhone has gone on to
world's most valuable company.
dominate the smartphone market.
It was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve
Jobs died in 2011 from pancreatic cancer, and
Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to develop and sell
was succeeded as CEO by Tim Cook, who had
Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. It went
formerly been in charge of the company’s
public in 1980, and enjoyed huge success.
Supply Chain.
Wozniak left in 1985 while Jobs was forced out
In August 2018, Apple became the first publicly
soon after. Without the inspirational - if tyrannical
traded US company to be valued at over US$1
- Jobs to lead it, Apple drifted, and became a bit-
trillion. Two years later, it was valued at US$2 trillion.
part player in the tech market. Jobs rejoined in 1997, and with the launch of its
In June 2020, Apple announced it will move the Mac away from Intel processors to
translucent iMac and and iPod MP3 player, the
ones developed in-house, to allow for
company was reborn.
performance increases.
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TOP 100 COMPANIES
How Amazon's Super-Complex Shipping System Works
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Amazon
Year Founded: 1994 Industry: e-Commerce / Tech / Streaming Service
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Bellevue, Washington in 1994. It began as an online marketplace for books but expanded to sell electronics, software, video games, clothes, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. In 2015, the company surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the US. In August 2017, it bought Whole Foods Market for US$13.4bn, which increased its footprint as a physical retailer. Its subscriber two-day delivery service, Amazon Prime, passed 100 million customers worldwide. Measured by revenue Amazon is the world's largest: • Online marketplace • AI assistant provider • Live-streaming platform • Cloud computing platform • Internet company
It is also the second-largest private employer in the United States. It employs people in its warehouses, bulk distribution centres, hub locations, and also at delivery stations, where drivers pick up packages. Of itself, Amazon says: “We are guided by four principles: customer obsession, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking.” In a nod to its bookseller origins, Amazon subsidiaries include Audible.com - a producer of spoken audio entertainment and Goodreads, the world’s largest online community of book lovers. In February 2021, Bezos stepped down as CEO and is now transitioning power to Andy Jassy, who is currently CEO of Amazon Web Services.
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