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Top Fortune 500 concentration of companies worldwide

20/08/2009

Eurada (European Association of Development Agencies) presented the conclusions of top "Fortune 500" of large foreign companies, which shows the number of companies located according to development regions.

The 2009 edition which relates to 2008, underlines the increased importance of the number of Chinese enterprises mentioned in this list (37 as against 6 in 1998) and the reduced number of American enterprises (currently 140 as against 185 ten years earlier).

The table below shows the developments in the number of enterprises per country between 2004 and 2009.

Country

Number of enterprises

2004

2009

EUROPE

170

188

AMERICA

207

165

ASIA

116

136

China

15

37

AUSTRALIA

7

9

ISRAEL

-

1

SAUDI ARABIA

-

1

Source: EURADA-NEWS, Nr 300 - 20.8.09

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