The Japanese Toyota remains the largest company in the world with total assets of 287 billion euros, but in the top 20 there are also two Italians: theEni ed Exor (Agnelli group), climbed to twelfth and twentieth place respectively. This is the result of the special classification of large companies compiled by the 2012 survey of multinationals in the world by R&D-Mediobanca. In general, Western multinationals, and especially those of North America, have juggled better in terms of profitability than those of emerging countries, while in Italy there are only 16 multinationals plus 3 domiciled in the Benelux, mostly small ones with debt.
In the general classification, Toyota remains in first place even if its advantage over the second (the English Royal Dutch Shell) has halved compared to the previous year. It is also striking that among the top three multinationals there are no US companies (the third is the Russian Gazprom), even if American companies are the first by market capitalization. In the first positions of the general classification there are only companies automotive or energy, but the stock markets don't really like them.
Among the Italian companies, in addition to the good performance of Eni (which has overtaken General Electric) and Exor (which controls Fiat and which has risen from twenty-ninth to twentieth place), there is also Finmeccanica but only in 105th place.
Attachments: Report on global multinationals.pdf
