What Companies Have Thrived in the Global Marketplace?

1.What are the top three industries/sectors AND what are the top three firms/brands on

EACH of the 4 lists?

2. What three countries appear most frequently?

3. When comparing the various lists of top global companies/brands, you will find some

differences between the lists. Identify a few you found.

4. What firms/brands has fallen out of the top 10 or so on any of the lists, and who are the new

arrivals? Why do you think that is the case?

5. Does a particular industry or country seem to be on the move? Why do you think that is?

6. What information in your research on the top global brands surprised you? Why?

7. Name a couple of companies (firms/brands) missing from the top of the lists that you had

expected might be there. Why had you expected to see them?

8. Consider what the answers to these questions tell you about today's global economy. How

would you expect the answers to change over the next decade? Why?