2009 Fortune 500: Full list

How many Statists does it take…?

I rarely see this much commie tripe… you guys really win the prize.

To each its own. I want to be fortunate enough to get back to work in a Fortune 500 company again. I happen to be a bio pharmaceutical or health care industry person and a fan for two reasons (1) To work in those industries is probably as close as I will get to the medical community, and it is so important to me that I work for an industry that improves the quality of life for others; (2) Those industries have been able to withstand the economic downturn. So, No bad mouthing from me — especially during our current economic state.

Elaine Harrison

people are complaining about fortune 500 companies particularly oil industries. They don’t understand that the employees in these companies work way hard to keep the company running. In opposite, people who are complaining are spending the tax payers’ money and drinking beers in the bars. Guys, please be realistic!

How can Earth accept this? Most of these companies, at least the top 50 ones, have more revenues than most COUNTRIES on Earth!

How did this happen? How did we allow them to proceed in this future, yet certain, world domination?

Slowly, but surely, these puppet companies are woven into world domination. The kingdoms of the world united under one leader. Resist! Revolt! Open your eyes! Do not accept unified currency, respect and uphold national borders, stand for your American freedoms. Down with the Euro, the EU, NAFTA, the UN!

you should have taken the bailout money soon you’ll be unemployed. you should have also talked with the banks to ease up on financing and maybe things would have slowly gotten better but i guess it sucks to be you.

Oh My GOD FORTUNE 500!! THey ROCK!!!
yeah yeah temi is been here

great job

In any democracy the news media must ask the right questions. For example in the 2000 Florida Presidential election scenario no one asked why the Bush Team did not agree to the proposed recounts? I guess that is because no asked if the anomalies that caused the under-vote ballots were not also present in the vote ballots.

The questions for the day are :
1. Why are the Oil companies contributing to the recession instead of contributing to the recovery?
2. Why is the price of deisel higher than gasoline when gasoline is refined from deisel fuel?
3. Have you ever bought anything, goods and or service, that did not have deisel fuel as part of it’s production cost?
4. If the price of deisel fuel had the same relationship with its cost of production that gasoline has would the cost for every other business, every government, every indiviual be reduced significantly??

Bank of America in Charlotte NC has only FIVE openings yet you are saying they are hiring over 1000 employees. Please stop getting our hopes up.

Bank of America is NOT hiring any administrative positions in the Charlotte area. Thanks for nothing

This is a response to TX Granny’s remarks about Wal-Mart. Although Wal-Mart has become a hulking corporate monolith, If you divide its profit by the amount of employees, you only come out with six thousand dollars per worker.

To those of you wondering how Ford and GM can be on this list,
It’s simple: GM sold $149 billion in products and services, which puts them behind only 5 other companies, but it cost them $180 billion to create those products, advertise them, ship them to distribution centers, pay employee salaries & benefits, honor warranties, and everything else that it takes to run the business.

For a list of most profitable companies, you’d have to look elsewhere.

As the world is changing so is the way we take control of our lives. In this day and age we can’t be too dependant on big companies such as these. We should invest our time and learning into powerful companies that look to make people wealthy and not dependant. Companies like the prepaid legal who is featured on the cover of success from home magazine. Learn more at http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/matthewfears

I prefer to shop at Walgreens over CVS. They (CVS) are more profitable but at the expense of customer service. Walgreens employees are by far more helpful and nicer than those at CVS.

I do not like what I have been reading about IBM lately. A federal judge in New York ruled on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 that joint actions against the corporations under a US law allowing rights claims from abroad should be addressed in a US court. The judge disagreed with arguments made by the companies that it was not their responsibility to tell clients how to use their products. US Judge Shira Scheindlin allowed lawsuits against IBM for “aiding and abetting arbitrary denationalization and apartheid.” She said “That level of willful blindness in the face of crimes in violation of the law of nations cannot defeat an otherwise clear showing of knowledge that the assistance IBM provided would directly and substantially support apartheid.”

seriously? I can’t believe that the companies lining up for a bailout using tax payer dollar made the list. This decreases the value of being a Fortun 500 company.

This is a response to a previous comment about CVS salaried employees not getting a raise…. First, that is not true. Positions located in Field Management (District Manager and above) did not take raises. Store Management and below did recive raises based on performance. Second, bonuses were not cut in half. Bonuses are based on individual store performance if you are a Store Manager and DM’s recieve bonuses based on their districts performance. The option to not take raises was right. Think about it… the first thing our President did when he took office was to freeze all White House raises. Companies that make these types of moves are looking at what it takes to make it through the long haul and CVS Caremark was smart enough to freeze raises instead of laying off employees. This is a company that is proactive instead of reactive and they are very aware of what it takes to keep a company above rough water.

Stay with WAGS all the way, the leader now and in the future

Salaried CVS Caremark employees did NOT receive a raise this year and our bonuses were cut in half. We were told that this was based on the fact that we expect to lose business in 2009, yet the CFO said our profit should increase by 4%. I think we were taken advantage of due to the bad economy.

Never been a better time in history to buy stocks for the long term!

I think it is unacceptable that AT&T is ONLY 8th behind the oil companies and Wal-Mart. I have ideas to improve this. I am sure Mr. Stephenson would agree. (1) These days cell phones are a necessity just like gasoline. We should get with the other telecoms and form an alliance similar to OPEC. We ALL raise the price significantly. People cannot live without their cell phones and will pay ANYTHING to keep them. This puts us in line with the greedy oil companies. (2) We all give up our benefits and agree to work for minimum wage. All of us but Mr. Stephenson and his cronies, of course. We apply for Medicaid. We should qualify because we would be considered poverty level. We still have health insurance paid for by the government instead of the phone company. This aligns us more with Wal-Mart policy who’s employees live near poverty while the Walton’s get richer. I believe if we combine these two plans we will become 1st on on the Fortune 500 list instead of 8th. This would also allow extra cash for Mr. Stephenson’s remodel of his new Dallas digs. Paying the city to move bus stops so he doesn’t have to see the homeless must be expensive, and goodness knows how much it will cost to bring Golden Boy to town. I’m sure he needs more little men in white gloves to serve him lunch. And who wouldn’t tear down walls of a 37 story building to have glass elevators. Staring at elevator walls all the way to the top must be a bore. He must be short of reno cash by now. We all need to help him out. Think about it. If we don’t help out, how long will it be before Mr. Stephenson flies one of his private jets up to Washington holding out his tin cup for his share of the bailout money.

It may not be clear, AT&T employees are not asking for anything. Just SIMPLY asking that they keep things the way they have been for years. We are not asking for extras. They are expecting us to pay $2000 deductibles..with 50 cent raises, how is that possible? We are not asking for $4000 bonus, or trips to Italy, just to stop trying to take away what we started with. Wireless employees, please keep your negative comments to yourself. You have your contract, so of course you are not complaining, “NOW”…

Well well well, Just like AT&T, everyone fails to realize WE THE EMPLOYEES MAKE THE COMPANY WHAT THEY ARE. If we were not working hard, taking calls, fixing lines, selling cell phones, OUT IN THE COLD, RAIN, SNOW, HURRICANES, TORNADOS, there would be NO MONEY FOR AT&T. I complain because I have worked here and seen the changes that benifit the big wigs, and not the employees or customers. Like I said before, HAPPY EMPLOYEES MEANS BETTER SERVICE, AND THAT MEANS MORE MONEY.Big talk from people “not” leaving their names. “WE” THE EMPLOYEES MAKE IT GREAT, NOT THE VP’S OR CEO’S. COME ON NOW, WE FIGHT FOR WHATS RIGHT. By the way, MR. 37 YEARS, AT&T also said it wants to stop benifits for you, leave you for the social security office. HOW BOUT THEM APPLES!! AT&T IS BEING SELFISH. But in the end, GREED GETS YOU NO WHERE. IT IS ONE OF THE 7 DEADLY SINS, YOU HEAR ME RANDY STEVENSON.

I would like to a list of the top PROFITABLE companies.

We need an FDIC like for: To big to fall companies.

Number 140 on your list International Assets(IAAC) did NOT have 18.36 billion in revenues last year. It was approx. 120 million of net revenues. Looks like you’ve been hoodwinked:)

We really need to look at ourselves and say.” that in order for these company to be so successful, its we the people who make them run. If we start to boycotte one then the rest would follow!!!!!

AT&T earned a 10% profit which is only beat by Exxon and I assume that is because of the $4.00 a gallon price gouging they were allowed last year. I suppose that is the reason AT&T wants there union people to pay extra for health care due to the excesive profit margin. So the top executives can earn more that the 200% to 400% above the lowest union member making 10 or 12 buck a hour, with forced overtime.

To Anonymous in Seattle,

That is $12.867 Billion, not Million, which works out to somewhere around $422,000, give or take a little. Not a significant pay increase at all, for Randall Stephenson.

AT&T Wireless Employee,

Responses to your points…

1. AT&T is not a not for profit company. They exist to make money.

Agreed, this company is far removed from not for profit.

2. Their employees work their by choice, and they can always quit.

Agreed also. Didn’t Wireless just agree to a new contract? Why didn’t you just quit? Yes, we do work ‘there’ by choice and we don’t just quit and give up if we don’t like something or would like to keep our benefits with a company that made $12.9 billion, with a ‘b’.

3. No company can be profitable if they care more about their employees then the bottom line.

That is not true. There are plenty of companies that make a profit and care about their employees that work on the product that is delivered to the customer. Example: All the baby bells before AT&T/SBC.

4. It is not AT&T job to make people happy to be at work. With the current economy AT&T should be letting go of people and brining in new blood.

That makes sense, let’s get rid of all the employees with the knowledge and start from scratch. AT&T wireline and wireless for that matter have years of knowledge and experience which is a very valuable asset for a company.

4b. The people they let go should be those with the most tenure since they tend to be the most stagnant.

See 4a, I was trained over the years by some of those “stagnant” people, not managers, real world, knowledgable, working technicians.

5. It is AT&T money, they are simply sharing it with their employees. Be grateful.

I don’t think you can call it sharing. I don’t know about you but we work for our money, it is not a handout. We also have the right to work for a fair contract just like AT&T Wireless has done.

To the person who takes issue with AT&T’s $12.678M profit, when they are cutting pay (not true, just no raises) – That works out to $42.89 per employee; doesn’t seem like that big a deal now, does it? By the way, profit is important in stock valuation, which benefits you as a stockholder (assuming you participate in the 401k). What I’m trying to say is that a healthy company in the long run is more beneficial than a relatively small pay increase.

According to your own website AT&T ranks 8th in the Fortune 500 for 2009. Who do you think put AT&T in that position?? The same employees’s that are working without a contract. I notice that AT&T is no where in the top 100 companies to work for. We join in with Randal Stephenson this year who opted not to recieve a team award that union members fought for, only to cash in stock options that were worth millions. Good going Randall. I would be happy to forego my team award to receive a windfall like that off the backs of my employee’s. We may face going without a paycheck to fight for what is fair in a company that ranks 8th in the Fortune 500. Thank you very much.

Monica,

1. AT&T is not a not for profit company. They exist to make money.
2. Their employees work their by choice, and they can always quit.
3. No company can be profitable if they care more about their employees then the bottom line.
4. It is not AT&T job to make people happy to be at work. With the current economy AT&T should be letting go of people and brining in new blood.
4b. The people they let go should be those with the most tenure since they tend to be the most stagnant.
5. It is AT&T money, they are simply sharing it with their employees. Be grateful.

I just read an article about IBM called IBM’s grand plan to save the planet. In the article CEO Sam Palmisano is featured as some sort of God type figure. IBM is the master of marketing deception and subtrifuge and is agressively lobbying for stimulus funds. That is it. IBM has a history of highly unethical behavior throughout the world that continues today. Look at IBMs actions, not just their marketing. Just this month, IBM was in the news for its participation in Apartheid. It also is well known that IBM provided technology and solutions to the Third Reich needed to identify and exterminate Jews. Currently IBM is selling out its employees and the USA. Is it really a great idea to reward this type of corporate behavior with taxpayor dollars?

Sears Holding is losing market share because of the poor decisions it has made to stop behaving as a merchant. It is more interested in selling high profit insurance plans on products
(if companies made decent products this would not be necessary)and extremely high interest-rate credit cards. This company also has a well known reputation for treating employees like garbage. They now offer no raises to hourly employees and will hire in at minimum wage with fulltime positions being 30-32 hours a week. This is not gainful employment and only helps build a larger underclass in our society as employers retreat to refusing to invest in one of their more valuable assets-their employees. The recent press on their failure to take care of their customers ( washing machine fiasco from black friday) is another example of the incompetance to understand the long-term effects of failure to address satisfaction over wanting profit.

kroger is going for 10% this quarter

those with high market value shud be on top, not those with lossess

AT&T is anti-American when it asks for takebacks from employees who have worked hard to continue its profit making abilities in the face of recession. AT&T is anti-patriotic when it wants to take back hard earned gains from workers while the country is doing what it can to stimulate the economy. TAKE BACKS STIFLE ECONOMIC RECOVERY!

AT&T moves up 2 spots to #8 by revenue alone in 2009 but still refuses to negotiate a fair contract.. the employees that are still working without a contract are making this possible. Show some respect for the little people and settle the contract! We are ahead of Verizon who is 17 and Sprint who ranks 64 and this still means nothing to AT&T. They want all the profits for themselves with no regard to the employees that take the calls and make the calls every day. It is time to negotiate a contract to show you are thankful for the team that works the frontlines.

Jacky, be glad you have a job and quit the whining!

In World War 2 I flew 29 combat missons over Germany. Then I joined AT&T and worked for them for 37 years. I always enjoyed my work, that provided excellent communications service. I am now retired and have been very well treated by AT&T. If you are unhappy with AT&T, why not Quit your job!

At&t is implementing unreasonable performance measurements on their employees, they are killing their managers working them to death, this ceo is extremely immature I dont know what Withacre ex-ceo. was thinking when he pulled him out of the hat.
He needs to go. The company will be better off.

Publix is a wonderful company and it is no surprise it is ranked in the top 500 once again.

any wrong with corning’s profit? ranking 414…i mean 88% profit of Rev.??? just from CDT manufacture???

AT&T has some of the most selfish employees. The rest of the country and all management employees manage to pay for their benifits, and still survive. Maybe the other employees should try it. I thought this was a free country? Why should upper management of a company, who worked hard through out their lives, went to school, earned their degrees and so on have to give money back because a non management employee doesn’t think its “fair”? Wake up, this is america. Go complain to Obama, so he can tax everyone and then no one will have any money left. Sweet system being created here. Keep complaining… it’ll get you far. Try hard work and determination for once…

No suprise to me Johnson Controls is on this list they laid off so many workers just to make this list. They are a heartless company.

AT&T is just plain greedy and they sure take care of their Sr. Management Team. If it was up to them, they would offshore everyone else.

at&t is doing very well and will continue to do so as long as management stays out of the way.
give good contract employees.
if it is so hard to give benefits, maybe dropping all upper management pay to 150k – 200k a year with stock options bonus’s of around 6% a year of their salary but only if passing the goal set by the stock holders.
its funny how people that make more money and do less work find it easier for lower income people to pay for insurance… etc.
also, if you will remember it was the wire line companies (SWBT) hard work that bought all of the failing companies to make SBC and now AT&T. the structuring and design failings of that side of their company rests on their management.
why would you adapt failed policies from failed parts of companies they purchased and replace the working model of SWBT?
they should get back to their roots and deliver outstanding customer service with the great technicians they had and have less micro management.
instead they are trying to go to the accounting side of business for their decisions and trying to drop their experienced people for lower paid contract workers.
also people forget if the wire line and fiber go down so will wireless, at least when the power goes down your wire line still worked as long as the central offices were there.

As a current AT&T employee on the wireless side, I can understand the frustration we employees have wtih the company; I love my job but dont always love the company I work for. To those that wish to slander our company I say this: In a time of economic downturn on a global level we should all really just be thankful to have a job that does offer us a fair wage and a place to work, its not always ideal by any means but I wake up and go to work everyday and am happy to do so. At&t is my employer and I am proud to work for the 8th ranked company in the Fortune 500.

AT&T is the most selfish company I have known. It wants its employees to pay for health insurance because it says its in the same position as the Auto Makers. Guess they forgot about this list…Wonder what they will say tomorrow when there is still no agreement on a contract. They have forced their managers to hault all raises, yet they still profit….HOPEFULLY SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN THAT THEY SEE THE EMPLOYEES IS WHAT MAKES THIS COMPANY SO GREAT!!! HAPPY EMPLOYEES MEANS HAPPY CUSTOMERS, AND THAT MEANS MORE MONEY!!

I thought United Bankshares Inc (UBSI)
was a Fortune 500 Company. Can you please verify this?
Thank you

No company is better positioned for the Green industrial revolution than GE. They have the size and technology to take full advantage.

So does everyone who posts on here support a psudo- communist populist controll everything that every company does fiscal policy? And does everyone who posts on here generally have no idea how the world works? It’s not a corporate conspiracy.. you can’t take huge companies off of the Fortune 500 just because they “aren’t doing so good…” go take an economics class at your local community college. Seriously, people.

Volume is Vanity, Profit is Sanity.

Well maybe someone ought to take a look at how AT&T treats it’s employees. Notice it didn’t make “best company to work for.” Management received no raises this year but the high level management received stock options that were cashed in at over $1 million each. Oh but that’s not a raise…sorry.
Our health benefits start with a $2300 deductible before any insurance kicks in. Try that as a single mother with 2 children making a lower salary than some union employees. Morale is lower than ever at AT&T. When are they going to wake up and start treating the people that made them number 8 like the great people they are. CNN ought to do a little digging around AT&T and expose them for the greedy corporation they are.
And to think they blamed the economy for the fact that they couldn’t afford raises. Insulting!!!!

Re – AT&T wireless “making the money”
for AT&T. Dear Wireless Employee -
Take the “WIRELINE” out of the “Wireless” and none of the “wireless” calls would make it through the network. How do you think the “wireless”calls are processed??Magic??

Ask Randall Stephenson CEO of AT&T who actually help make AT&T what it is on the 500 list. It of course being those that he and his greedy board refuse to grant a good contract…. the employee. Typical business as usual… not giving credit to those that truly deserve it and taking for themselves their huge perks. Shame on you Randall.

AT&T made #8, they use CVS Caremark for prescriptions, and United Health for health insurance for their employees. ALL THREE ARE IN THE TOP 25! AT&T wants to cut wages, health care, and jobs because they can’t afford to do business! COME ON. Their CEO made 25 million dollars in 2008 himself. Everything about this is wrong. If AT&T wants to be a world leader, then they should start with the employees that made them a Fortune 500 Company and give them good wages, the best health care and secure jobs. Is this how AT&T thanks them? SHAME ON AT&T AND ALL OF THE BIG COMPANIES THAT TREAT THEIR EMPLOYEES LIKE THIS. Why not rank the companies by how they take care of the employees and how well they serve the public, NOW THAT WOULD BE A LIST TO SEE. These companies are nothing but thieves that take from their employees and expect to cut jobs and benefits for making such enormous profits.

so, why is Ford, GM, Valero, Citigroup and the like still on this list?

Bush had no clue. His comments about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were based on the Republican belief that more loans for wealthy speculative investors would help drive the economy. He opposed loans to lower middle class. (Some people are obviously easily convinced by the media that is owned by the wealthy and spin things to their favor.) The banks are not foreclosing on the speculative loans that are now worth much less than the property. Those investors of course got those loans through corporations so they would not be liable and could walk away from them if this happened. The banks are foreclosing on the loans the middle class cannot afford to pay, not because they were speculative, although the investors were driving up property values and that made the prices they paid too high. They are foreclosing on the loans that have high equity values and the mortgage owners have either lost their jobs or have gotten ill and cannot pay the mortgage. The banks can still sell their houses for less and make money since the mortgage owners are real people and they were building equity in their homes.

notice AT&T profit compared to revenue and they are complaining about they have same problem as auto companies. Looks pretty good from here. Oh and to the wireless division person who do you think carries those calls between towers oh its the wireline people.

WOW. AT&T RANKED #8 AND YET THEY CAN’T EVEN GIVE THEIR EMPLOYEES A FAIR CONTRACT WHOM HAVE BEEN WORKING WITHOUT A CONTRACT SINCE APRIL 5TH. TALK ABOUT CORPORATE GREED.

As for AT&T, it’s union negotiations and being on the list. The part of the company that made the most money is wireless and they’ve settled their contract. The non-wireless folks are in the wrong part of the business, those lines are no longer popular, but they’re fighting for more than the wireless folk got!

I work for CVS and we deserve to be near the top. We care about people through our charities and our CEO is very involved.

if and when this ecomony finally stasrts to improve- not just get better, but improve and grwo, Obama will definitely get all the credit. it will be ike the rooster getting credit for the sunrise. no one understands (unless they are an economist by trade) that the democrats voted for deregulation, and all kinds of cost saving measures. the natural progress of any ecomony of scale is to rise and fall. Whoever is at the helm at the time it’s rising gets the glory, and the GOAT is the hard- working president who tried so hard to stop the downturn.

I’m not a bush fan! But no one listened to him in 2002 when he said somthing had to be done about fannie and freddy and then in 2006 Mc Cain said the same thing BUT Barney Frank said that Fannie and Freddy wern’t doing enough to help poor and minorities buy homes and blocked any further disscussion in the senate. I guess they did enough about 50 to 60 percent of those homes are now owned by the taxpayers! A lot of the problem goes to the GREEDY BANKS that made those loans and packaged them to Freddy and Fannie and other investors. Steve

JPMorgan Chase should be far from professional. They filed our home loan under foreclosure when in fact the Veterans Administration had informed them they no longer were our home loan co. I had to go through hundreds of calls and credit issues to fix thier error. They are in the process of being sued by me due to thier ignorance and unprofessional staff that also continued to phone me and harass me when they had been notified by the VA they were a memory.

AT&T made a profit of $12,867,000 and they want to cut their workers pay in half & take away insurance benefits. This I just don’t get!

You are correct Rizz from MN…Obama did not create this crisis. It did start under the Busch (and previous) administrations, caused by Democrats such as Reed and Pelozi. And now Obama is just throwing (our) money at the problem . . . this never solved anything. And when the economy does turn-around, Obama will claim credit even though it is only a natural occurence.

HSBC is a Hong kong/China bank. Please take a look at their website. It may have offices in UK, but definetly not UK based.

As a former At&t customer of 15 years I find it interesting that they have been able to hold thier own. Due to to terrible service and how they relate to thier customers it will be interesting how they due the next round.

Woo-hoo! AIG ranks the highest of any company who lost $90 billion or more last year!

How do Ford and GM rank in the 10 ten if the auto industry is going to fail without government bailouts?

What about the “too big to fail” scenario that got us where we are today? Should we not want these banks to be broken up into smaller individual banks rather than having a whole lot of eggs in one basket?

I have to say, even thought Lowes is ranked below HomeDepot, there customer service a heck of a lot better. Employess always see happy when you walk in there. Come to find out by taking to Lowe’s employees the company treats them really well and gives them benifits even to part timers. More companies should be like Lowes

Bank of American is doing so great and its by raising the interest rates on all their credit cards after we the people bailed them out with our tax money. They repay us by raising our interest rates and the government does nothing about it!

Late last year and the first quarter of this year I and about 130 other hard working people lost thier jobs with a division of ITW. After working for the company for 22 years the decision was made that it was no longer profitable enough to continue to do insert molding in this country. All production was transfered to Mexico or Malayisa in the name of profits, they say it was driven by customer mandate. The customers are the big three Automotive giants out of Detroit. That decision only hurt hard working Americans and did’nt help the big three Detroit auto makers.

Company ranking by profits, employee pay and retention may be a better meter of the company health. Total revenues seem to be very misleading. One of the top fortune 500 companies will likely file bankruptcy soon.

Why don’t we have a Costco Wholesale club in our area…Ormond Beach, Fla. 32174.
Our population warrants it, and you better hurry before Sam’s club moves in
our area.

I would like to see the data on executive management pay increases 2007 to 2008 and how it relates to their company performance, Leggett & Platt might be a good place to start.

HSBC is a British Bank. This is American companies only. The Global 500 will come out soon.

I find it extremely sad to see General motors and Ford company two true American Fortune 500 icons showing the negatives and going through this time of struggle. As I have always owned GM automobiles I have never been dissatisfied with their service to me. I understand that some of the problems erupted in the seventies. Americans always wanted big and beautiful automobiles and our companies worked hard to give us what we wanted. When the first gas shortage sprang in, all of a sudden the price of running these cars became an issue. People began buying foreign cars mostly for economics. Now the problem begins, now the big three had to spring into action to produce smaller more efficient auto’s. They were forced to rush and unfortunately didn’t have the time do produce small car quality overnight but foreign companies had years of experience and sales for the big three began going down. Both now and for at least the past decade, in my opinion all three have conquered and in many cases surpassed imports. I am crazed though that even people whom I have known for a long time, intelligent people; still have not out grown the stigma of the past. I have many controversial conversations when it comes to the quality of American automobiles. Since this is dragging a little, one of the best “stimulus programs the American people can do is” Buy American Automobiles. The chain of stimulation would be seen very fast, stop producing profits for overseas. Don’t think of it as one won’t make a difference because it will. When neighbors and friends see their peers buy that new Saturn many will follow. We all want to see what government will do for us but, remember JFKs best quote “ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country” we are all in this together.

i worked for goodrich in troy,ohio for 29 yrs., and was fired cause a cell phone fell out of my pocket and the personal manager didn’t like me. he carrys one on his belt though. they are so mismanaged now in troy it’s not funny

It impresses me when I come accross CEO who are hands on like Mr. GE and Ms Pepsis and put their soul in the company …like Irene Rosenfield

where’s Actuant?its revenue is up to 1,80Million.

“Where is BP and Shell?”

The lists are only applicable to the companies based in U.S, and HSBC is the company based in UK.

I work for Microsoft. I am proud of our success this year. I fill up at Chevron all the time, and think they do great work. They deserve all their success.

Recession doesn’t affect my opinion. They’re ability to satisfy me as a customer is the metric.

Don’t get the comment about not valuing healthcare. Corporate revenue says WE DO VALUE HEALTHCARE. Would the person rather these companies lost money!?

Cooper Industries, Ltd.(Public, NYSE:CBE)Annual 08 is $6,521.30 mil,but not shows in the list. Why?

YES I WORK FOR LOWES YOUR CUSTOMERS SAY YOUR LOWES HAS A BETTER CUSTOMER SEVICE IS BETTER THAN HOME DEPOT AND ARE HELPFUL TO YOUR CUSTOMERS AND ARE FRINDLY

Work at a Fortune 1000 company (in the 500s)… I’m surprised they don’t advertise it at all.

well walgreens here in laredo is cool but wallgreens on guadlupe is a bad influence cause customers complain on the management staff including store manager

Its Fortune 500, which is meant for USA only companies. USA! If you want to look for HSBC, look in Fortune Global. Global!

this list should be based on profit, not revenue. how can a company that lost nearly $31 billion be ranked number 6 on the list of top 1000 companies? this is flawed system. didn’t we learn anything from enron or the tech bubble, that revenue is meaningless if tbere are no profits? fortune needs to rethink how it ranks its “top” companies.

The Fortune 500, 1000, etc. lists only US corporations. HSBC is a British bank (HQ in London), hence it’s not on this list. Ditto for other British, French, German, Chinese corporations . . .

Best buy is now cutting thousands of supervisor jobs this month. They are making moves that are affecting a lot of lives

why isn’t cargill on here, or is this just public companies?

So, Conoco Phillips, GM, Ford, and Citigroup are all leaking profits like a sieve … but they are considered top 15 companies?
At least Exxon can make a profit … wonder how much of that was made BEFORE the cost of oil plummeted last year?

What about Private companies? Cargill?
120 billion usd plus in revenue

The Fortune 500 is only American companies

HSBC is not an American company; it is a Chinese company. Its name is Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation.

If HP’s doing so great, why did they permanently cut employee salaries by 5-15% in March and another temporary 10% cut for the month of April?

How many of the top 100 of the Fortune 1000 are asking for bailout monies? AND GETTING IT? Makes me sick to think that they can be listed in the top 500 but are still allowed to get all these breaks. Enough is enough. When are the people REALLY going to be HEARD? We should be mad as hell

Great move to you Chandra, I used to work for a big company that gives $.50 raise ($1,040) to a small entity that gave me $10,000 raise. It is your “value” to the company. In big entities you’re just one of them.

I used to work for one of the 500. They didn’t treat you like a person or even a number because you are not a $ sign! Now I work for a company that is up and coming and not only knows your name but shakes your hand!

For the people that keep asking about companies such as HSBC, this is an American list only. Foreign companies aren’t ranked.

Although I am pro-business, there has to be some responsibility and accountability held by these CEO’s and corporations regarding their greed and lack of care and humanitarian responsiblities towards their employees and communities.

HSBC is not an American Owned company. The fortune 500 list if the annual ranking of America’s largest corporations

WEGMANS??????

HSBC is the worlds Largest bank. its also not a an American owned company and therefore not eligible by fortune’s standards, As this is a list of America’s 500 biggest companies.

A lot of the comapnies on this list are the very ones crying for a bailout. Some list. It should be called the Failure 500 list.

HSBC is a UK company. These are all American. For a list that includes other countries, check out Fortune’s Global 1000.

where’s HSBC in this list? its the worlds largest bank!

where is wwe on this list they shoud be in the top 100

I worked for a fortune 500 company for 10 years and the company didn’t grow anything……but still remained a fortune 500 company all these years….just because it’s revenues are past $5 billion.
I moved to a smaller company that is growing faster.

Where is Woodman’s Food Markets Janesville?? 1 Billion annuall sales

Dont blame Obama for the crises…he has to fix what George Bush left him..A TOTAL MESS…

I don’t know where you shop but customer service at Lowes is not even in the same league as Home Depot. Home Depot’s customer service is awesome here!

Something is wrong when health care companies make large amounts of money. This country values income over its people’s health which is very sad and disturbing. I hope the day is close when this economy spirals out of control and all hell breaks loose. It will be a good but tough lesson for us all and hopefully something is learned from it all.

I work for one of these companies, and they have driven us into the ground. We work 10+ hour shifts at least six days per week, and have taken massive pay cuts while our upper level management reaps the profits. If businesses want to make more money, they should reinvest their profits back into their workforce! A happy worker is a more productive worker.

Hey, wheres Wegmans?!

I am surprised Lowes is not higher. They beat the pants off Home Depot in customer service!

the real recession is because every people work less hours, so we had less money to spend… and we have to saved money. if every employee get more hours on her work or get more pay they can spend more….

If Ceos and other upper management didn’t make such ridiculous salary this country wouldn’t be in as much trouble as it is now.

for all the doom and gloom there appears to be a lot of companies that made a lot of money last year! 5 billion may be less than you made last year, but it is still 5 billion dollars profit

Yes, I’ve worked for a Fortune 500 company for over 20 years. The challenge for these companies is to keep them competitive in the global marketplace. Obama’s potential Union policies may make this impossible

What do you think of the companies on the Fortune 500 list this year?

Have you worked for any of these companies, or bought their products or services?

Has the recession affected your opinion of big companies?