US-based retail chain Wal-Mart continued to remain the world's biggest corporate with revenues of $378 billion. Exxon Mobile and Royal Dutch Shell are the toppers of the global list with revenues of $373 billion and $355 billion respectively.
Oil major Exxon Mobile at $40.6 billion was the world's most profitable company, followed by Shell and GE with profits of $31 billion and $22 billion, respectively. Among the money losers, General Motors (9th on the list) made history of sorts with a loss of $38.7 billion.
There were fewer American companies on the list this time (153 as compared to 162 last year) while as many as 29 Chinese companies made it to the list