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Ohio makes strong showing in Fortune 500 BB&T, RAI, VF, LabCorp make Fortune 500 UnitedHealth leads 20 MN firms on Fortune 500 list (05-05) 06:58 PDT New York (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. remains atop the Fortune 500 list even as it struggled to keep its U.S. customers coming in the door. The world's largest retailer held onto the top spot for the... share: digg facebook twitter The annual ranking, released Thursday, also shows that the largest U.S. companies have fared much better than ordinary Americans. Editors say that companies increased profits by increasing productivity and cutting jobs. The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") just published the text of a recent speech by Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar that I republish verbatim: Statement by SEC Commissioner: The Abysmal Lack of Diversity in Corporate Boardrooms is Growing Worse by Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Washington, D.C. May 2, 2011 Raid on Bin Laden, Jesse James, Fortune 500 The Fortune 500 isn't made for light reading. But if you leaf through the list at random, the way I used to leaf through the Book of Knowledge encyclopedia when I was a kid, you come across all sorts of stuff that's kind of fun. The 500 is based on U.S.-based companies' publicly reported revenue, not on any quality-based metrics: You get high-grade companies such as Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (No. 7) nestled near utter dogs such as Fannie Mae (No. 5). I found some of this year's corporate comings and goings especially interesting. My favorites: Read full article >> In 2004, white men held seven out of ten board seats at Fortune 100 companies. One boom-and-bust… What do you do when the market goes through periods of pullbacks or where the money swirls around looking for a new home? FIR Book Review: Social Location Marketing **Much has been written** on cloud computing: what it is, the opportunities and pitfalls associated with various incarnations, and the shift in how businesses access the infrastructure and operational systems and resources required to run their companies. The bottom line is that the cloud offers numerous advantages for companies transitioning from small to big, especially fast-growth companies. These types of companies can leverage cloud computing capabilities to navigate the inevitable pitfalls along the road from start-up to growth.** ** There are three common growing pains in every company's journey to maturity-- you either outgrow your market, your infrastructure, or your business and financial model. How these universal business issues are managed makes all the difference in whether a small business fails or succeeds. The cloud can help mitigate risks with each of the three growing pains, as described below. Strategic exploitation of cloud computing can equip a smaller company with the tools to operate globally at early stages. This allows the company to do business with corporate giants while retaining precious capital, agility and high performance. **Outgrowing the Market** At early stage companies, the founding management is often extremely hands-on and the products or services tend to be tightly ... If you study the labels in a grocery store carefully, you'll notice the same company names appearing over and over -- Nestlé, Kraft, General Mills and a few others. Even many supposedly natural or organic brands are nothing more than subsidiaries of these few giant corporations. Often, the only difference between the main brand and the subsidiaries is packaging and advertising. The three leading food companies, Nestle, Kraft Foods and PepsiCo, control a dominant proportion_ _of global processed-food sales. Their position as worldwide food providers has made them extremely powerful. Nestlé is the world's largest food company. It has 6,000 brands. Nestlé has faced ongoing resistance around the world for its promotion of infant formula, which critics say contributes to the unnecessary suffering and even deaths of babies. Kraft Foods is a subsidiary of Philip Morris (the maker of _Marlboro_ cigarettes). It markets brands in more than 155 countries. PepsiCo Incorporated is a global Fortune 500 corporation. According to Vigilant Citizen: _"Why should one care about which company sells which product? Primarily, it is a question of health ... Processed foods are making the entire world fatter, sicker and dumber, even though only a few companies produce them ... For a company that's not all that focused on the enterprise, Apple is getting pretty good at name dropping with the Fortune 500. The software bubble left us with software. The dot-com bubble transformed e-commerce. If Groupon goes up in smoke, what will it leave behind?
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