Forbes Largest 2000 public companies of the world are ranked on the basis of various parameters like score for the sales and profits, assets and the market value and some normalcy conditions.
Here the companies are shown country wise along with its industry types which are as follows:
| Name of the company | Industry Type |
| HSBC Group | Banking |
| BP | Oil & gas operations |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | Banking |
| Barclays | Banking |
| HBOS | Banking |
| Lloyds TSB Group | Banking |
| Aviva | Insurance |
| GlaxoSmithKline | Drugs & biotechnology |
| Anglo American | Materials |
| Tesco | Food markets |
| BT Group | Telecommunications services |
| Prudential | Insurance |
| AstraZeneca | Drugs & biotechnology |
| British Amer Tobacco | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Old Mutual | Diversified financials |
| Legal & General Group | Insurance |
| National Grid | Utilities |
| Standard Chartered Group | Banking |
| Diageo | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Centrica | Utilities |
| BAE Systems | Aerospace & defense |
| BG Group | Oil & gas operations |
| Cadbury Schweppes | Food, drink & tobacco |
| SABMiller | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Vodafone | Telecommunications services |
| Scottish & Southern | Utilities |
| GUS | Retailing |
| Wolseley | Trading companies |
| WPP | Media |
| Northern Rock | Banking |
| Kingfisher | Retailing |
| Marks & Spencer | Retailing |
| Rolls-Royce | Aerospace & defense |
| Alliance & Leicester | Banking |
| BAA | Transportation |
| Imperial Tobacco Group | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Reckitt Benckiser | Household & personal products |
| Wm Morrison Supermarkets | Food markets |
| Corus Group | Materials |
| Friends Provident | Insurance |
| Ladbrokes | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| British Airways | Transportation |
| Assoc British Foods | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Pearson | Media |
| BOC Group | Chemicals |
| Scottish Power | Utilities |
| United Utilities | Utilities |
| Hanson | Construction |
| Imperial Chemical Inds | Chemicals |
| J Sainsbury | Food markets |
| Royal & Sun Alliance | Insurance |
| British Sky Broadcasting | Media |
| Scottish & Newcastle | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Boots Group | Retailing |
| DSG International Plc | Retailing |
| Gallaher Group | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Bradford & Bingley | Diversified financials |
| Compass Group | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| Alliance UniChem | Health care equipment & services |
| GKN | Consumer durables |
| InterContinental Hotels | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| Cable & Wireless | Telecommunications services |
| Man Group | Diversified financials |
| Smiths Group | Conglomerates |
| Severn Trent | Utilities |
| Taylor Woodrow | Construction |
| Liberty International | Diversified financials |
| Reuters Group | Media |
| ITV | Media |
| Hammerson | Diversified financials |
| Next | Retailing |
| Land Securities Group | Diversified financials |
| Rexam | Materials |
| Persimmon | Construction |
| Whitbread | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| William Hill | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| Barratt Developments | Construction |
| British Land | Diversified financials |
| George Wimpey | Construction |
| Tate & Lyle Group | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Willis Group Holdings | Insurance |
| Rentokil Initial | Business services & supplies |
| Henderson Group | Diversified financials |
| Enterprise Inns | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| Tomkins | Conglomerates |
| Kelda Group | Utilities |
| British Energy | Utilities |
| International Power | Utilities |
| Johnson Matthey | Materials |
| Antofagasta | Materials |
| Slough Estates | Diversified financials |
| Balfour Beatty | Construction |
| Schroders | Diversified financials |
| Peninsular & Oriental | Transportation |
| PartyGaming | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| Amvescap | Diversified financials |
| Kazakhmys | Materials |
| Smith & Nephew | Health care equipment & services |
| Inchcape | Trading companies |
| Resolution | Insurance |
| Punch Taverns | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| Bunzl | Materials |
| Amdocs | Business services & supplies |
| Kesa Electricals | Retailing |
| AMEC | Construction |
| Group 4 Securicor | Business services & supplies |
| Pilkington | Construction |
| Mitchells & Butlers | Hotels, restaurants & leisure |
| Sage Group | Software & services |
| Daily Mail & General | Media |
| Yell Group | Media |
| AWG | Utilities |
| RHM | Food, drink & tobacco |
| Hays | Business services & supplies |
| Carphone Warehouse | Retailing |
| Travis Perkins | Retailing |
| Invensys | Capital goods |
| Capita Group | Business services & supplies |
| FirstGroup | Transportation |
| Signet Group | Retailing |
| Songbird Estates | Diversified financials |
| Shire | Drugs & biotechnology |