Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd is on the top of the tally of 56 Indian companies featured in the annual list of Forbes' 2000 largest and most powerful public companies in the world. A comprehensive list of the largest and biggest companies in the world, the Forbes 'Global 2000' for this year showed the upper hand of the US and China in the current business sector.
Companies from both the countries took over the top 10 positions with Japan's Toyota Motor Corp standing at 10th. India's 56th position resonates last year's list with RIL still maintaining its position at the top. The company moved from 142 to 121 this year, with a $50.6 billion market value and $91.5 billions of assets. It is followed by the State Bank of India which is at the 149th position and has a market value of $23.3 billion. Other Indian companies include, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ranked 220); ICICI Bank (266); HDFC Bank (275); Indian Oil Corporation (371); Tata Consultancy Services (385), NTPC Ltd (400); Bharti Airtel Ltd (453); Coal India Ltd (465); Axis Bank (484), Larsen and Toubro Ltd (505), Infosys (590), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (650), Wipro Ltd (755), ITC Ltd (781), Kotak Mahindra Bank (899), Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (901), HCL Technologies (943), Tata Steel Ltd (1178) and Adani Enterprises (1993).
