Forbes Global 2000: France’s Largest Companies

 

The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of French companies featured on the list in 2013.

The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.

In total, there were 64 French companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $1.377 trillion, with $11.651 trillion in assets; generating $2.185 trillion in revenues and $72.5 billion in profits.

 

 

The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual list of the world’s 2000 largest publicly listed corporations. Below is a compilation of French companies featured on the list in 2013.

The values on the list were last updated on May 2013. All figures are consolidated and in US dollars.

In total, there were 64 French companies on the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 list. Collectively, the companies had a combined market value of $1.377 trillion, with $11.651 trillion in assets; generating $2.185 trillion in revenues and $72.5 billion in profits.

Click on the companies’ names to find out more information on the company, including the type of industry it is in and its listing name in the stock exchange.

Alternatively, you can browse other Forbes Global 2000 companies, by country, at the end of this article.

Global Rank	Company	Sales ($billion)	Profits ($billion)	Assets ($billion)	Market Value ($billion)
22	BNP Paribas	126.2	8.6	2504.2	71.3
23	Total	240.5	14.1	224.1	114.4
39	AXA Group	147.5	5.3	1005.4	45.3
72	Sanofi	46.1	6.6	132.4	131.6
74	EDF	95.9	4.4	325.2	35.3
95	GDF Suez	128	2	268.9	45
146	Société Générale	107.8	1	1648.9	29.5
162	Vinci	51.7	2.5	80.9	25.4
169	France Telecom	57.4	1.5	113.9	29.2
175	Renault	54.4	2.3	98.9	20.3
177	L’Oréal Group	28.9	3.7	39	94.8
196	Christian Dior	38.6	1.8	69.9	32
204	Schneider Electric	31.6	2.4	45.4	42.2
216	Carrefour	101.3	1.6	59.4	19.8
230	Danone	27.5	2.2	38	43.3
253	Natixis	19.2	2.2	658	13.2
260	Saint-Gobain	57	1	61	21.6
284	Air Luquide	20.2	2.1	32.5	39.3
294	CNP Assurances	53.2	1.2	466.1	9.9
356	Michelin Group	28.3	2.1	26.4	16.2
368	Safran	18	1.7	30	19.6
378	Kering	12.8	1.4	32.5	29.4
386	Alstom	26.6	1	39.4	14
390	Pernod Ricard	10.4	1.5	33.5	34.5
413	Lafarge	20.9	0.6	50.5	20.3
426	Bouygues	44.3	0.8	48.1	9.4
460	Crédit Agricole	51.2	-8.3	2431.4	23.4
536	Vivendi	38.3	0.2	76.6	27.8
572	CIC Group	15.5	0.8	302.3	5.8
576	Veolia Environment	38.8	0.5	57.2	6.8
592	Sodexo	22.9	0.7	15.9	14.3
600	Thales	18.2	0.7	28.2	8.8
615	Publicis Groupe	8.7	1	21.8	14.7
623	Unibail-Rodamco	2.3	1.9	39	22.2
732	Technip	10.8	0.7	14.9	11.8
742	SCOR	13.4	0.6	43	5.8
850	Essilor International	6.6	0.8	9	24.1
876	Peugeot	73.1	-6.6	84.7	3
894	Capgemini	13.5	0.5	12.6	8.1
939	Rexel	17.7	0.4	13.4	6.4
961	Hermès International	4.5	1	3.5	34.9
967	Dassault Aviation	5.1	0.7	13.7	11.9
976	Finatis	54.9	0.2	40	0.5
1011	Areva	12.3	-0.1	39.8	6.2
1030	Eiffage	18	0.3	33.8	4.1
1035	Air France-KLM	33.8	-1.6	34.7	3.1
1061	LeGrand	5.9	0.7	8.8	12.2
1131	Valeo	15.1	0.5	11.8	4.3
1138	Alcatel-Lucent	19.1	-1.8	28.2	3.5
1244	Wendel	8.6	0.3	18.8	5.4
1346	Atos	11.7	0.3	9.3	6.4
1363	Aéroports de Paris	3.5	0.5	12.4	8.4
1401	Dassault Systèmes	2.7	0.4	4.8	14.2
1411	Vallourec	7	0.3	11.9	6.6
1504	Accor	7.3	-0.8	10	8.4
1538	Financière de l’Odet	11	0.3	11.1	3.2
1561	Lagardère	9.5	0.1	12.4	5
1576	Arkema	8.4	0.3	7.2	6.4
1606	Gecina	0.9	0.3	14.8	7.1
1724	Eutelsat Communications	1.5	0.4	6.3	8
1802	Zodiac Aerospace	4.3	0.4	5.1	6.4
1804	Eurazeo	5.7	-0.3	17.7	3.6
1837	Imerys	5.1	0.4	6.3	5.2
1873	Iliad	4.2	0.2	6.3	11

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