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FOREWORD

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.

GEORGIA WILSON

georgia.wilson@bizclikmedia.com

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Companies in

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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96

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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DB Schenker

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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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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AbbVie

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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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