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This list displays all 24 French companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2023. [1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
Location of France. France is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.A member of the Group of 7 (formerly G8) leading industrialised countries, as of 2014, it is ranked as the world's ninth-largest and the EU's second-largest economy by purchasing power parity. [1]
The company was established in 1853 by Joseph Vicat (1821–1902), son of Louis Vicat, who invented artificial cement in 1817. His cement plant was at Genevrey-de-Vif south of Grenoble ( Isère ). It used an argillaceous limestone that Joseph Vicat had established as suitable by chemical analysis.
The company was founded by Louis Lesaffre, the co-founder of Bonduelle, in the mid-19th century. [1] [2] One of its subsidiaries, Bio Springer, [3] was founded by Baron Max de Springer in 1872 in Maisons-Alfort. [4] In 2004, it formed a North American joint-venture with Archer Daniels Midland, known as Red Star Yeast. [5]
Carrefour Brasil, the largest market outside France, [64] was founded in 1975 and today is the major supermarket chain in Brazil in competition with Grupo Pão de Açúcar. Currently it sells more than 25 million products per year.
Publicis Groupe is a French multinational advertising and public relations company. One of the oldest and largest (by revenue) marketing and communications companies in the world, it is headquartered in Paris. After 1945, the little-known Paris-based advertising agency grew rapidly, becoming the world's fourth-largest agency. [when?
Avril is an international agro-industrial group based in France, specialising in food, animal feed, energy and sustainable chemistry.It was founded in 1983, on the initiative of a collective group of leaders in the French farming sector, and was structured as a subsidiary to ensure outlets for French oilseeds (rapeseed, sunflower, soy) and protein crops (Peas, faba beans, lupin).
France Médias Monde (English: France Media World) is a French state-owned holding company which supervises and co-ordinates the activities of the major public media organizations broadcasting or publishing internationally from France. The company's subsidiaries are the radio broadcasters Radio France Internationale (RFI) and Monte Carlo ...