Today we have top 10 most valuable companies in the world.
Today, many people will probably recognize the company logo, because Apple has truly become one of the most successful companies with a market value of $1,397 billion.
The company was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Jobs. Initially, the trio began assembling home computers and producing their own PC models, but the greatest success came precisely from last years company when Apple introduced the world to its line of mobile products - iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets.
Today, the company’s range of products is very wide – smart watches, computers and laptops, tablets and smartphones, etc. But main feature The popularity of Apple gadgets was due to high quality, stylish design and the smartest marketing program of Steve Jobs.
Today the company includes thousands of representative offices, branded stores and service centers around the world, with a staff of about 132 thousand employees.
The headquarters is located in the USA, in Cupertino, California.
$1,274 billion
Industry: Development software.
Products: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Xbox.
The third most valuable company in the world is Microsoft.
The world-famous corporation was founded in 1975, today one of the richest people in the world is Bill Gates.
At that time, Microsoft was the first developer to offer packaged software for home computers, which made PC management user-friendly and intuitive.
The Windows operating system was a real breakthrough because it made it easy for ordinary users to master a PC, which brought the company incredible success and huge profits.
Today, Microsoft is also one of the leaders in the PC software market, releasing OS New generation Windows, applications for working with documentation - Microsoft Office, as well as a number of other programs. In addition, MS produces its own mobile devices and components, video, audio and office equipment.
The headquarters is located in Redmond, Washington.
$1,020 billion
Industry: Internet.
The world-famous Internet company Google has recently changed its official name to Alphabet, since the company has long gone beyond just the Google search engine and also owns many other companies.
The heads of the Internet holding are Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who together created this mega-company since 1998.
Google's main office is located in California, and the holding includes more than three dozen popular services and subsidiaries, such as AdWords, Android, YouTube and others.
Amazon Inc.
$924.52 billion
Industry: Retail trade.
January 7, 2019, company Amazon became the most valuable company in the world for the first time, overtaking its competitor – Microsoft. Now she only ranks 5th.
Amazon is an American retail company engaged in the sale and delivery of various goods via the Internet.
With the help of Amazon, Internet users, suppliers and manufacturers can sell any goods themselves, using the company’s website as an online platform.
The main direction of the company is the independent sale of various goods. The popularity of the service has increased due to the high quality of products, low prices, prompt delivery and a wide range of different products.
The company was founded in 1994 by Jephos Bezos. The main office is located in Seattle, Washington.
According to a general estimate, the company currently employs about 647.5 thousand employees. The corporation's assets total more than $162 billion and annual turnover is approximately $232 billion.
$633.49 billion
Industry: Internet.
Facebook was developed by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. Today, the social network Facebook is visited by over 2 billion people every day. For one Internet project, with a market value of 633 billion dollars, this is simply an astronomical indicator of popularity and demand.
Today, Facebook generates more than $22 billion in net revenue per year from advertising. In addition, Facebook leads this list in terms of profitability, as the company increased its net income by 54% in the last year alone.
The headquarters is located in Menlo Park, California.
Alibaba Group
$610.13 billion
Industry: Internet.
Products: E-commerce, online auction hosting, online money transfers, mobile commerce.
Alibaba is one of the largest virtual trading platforms in China and the world, attracting the attention of buyers with both affordable prices and a wide range of products presented.
Founded on April 4, 1999, the company provides consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business services through web portals, as well as electronic payment services, customer search and cloud computing.
The headquarters is located in Hangzhou.
$562.39 billion
Industry: Insurance, finance, railway transport, utilities, production of food and non-food products.
The company is known for its permanent owner, American investor and entrepreneur Warren Buffett. The headquarters is located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
The price of one share of this company is $344,970, which makes it .
Affiliated companies:
- GEICO (auto insurance);
- General Re (reinsurance);
- Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group (insurance);
- Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group (insurance and reinsurance);
- BNSF - (railway transport);
- Berkshire Hathaway Energy (electricity and gas supply);
- McLane Company (wholesale).
In 2015, the number of participants in the annual meeting of shareholders exceeded 40 thousand people.
For this reason, the company's shareholders' meeting received the humorous nickname "Woodstock for capitalists."
$492.9 billion
Industry: Conglomerate.
Products: Social networks, instant messaging, tools mass media, web portals, etc.
Tencent is a venture capital firm, conglomerate, investment holding company, and one of the largest companies in the gaming industry.
This Chinese multinational investment holding, founded in 1998, today occupies the 9th position in the ranking of the most valuable companies.
Its many services include social networking, mobile gaming, music, web portals, payment systems, e-commerce, Internet services, smartphones and massively multiplayer online games, which are among the largest and most successful in the world in their respective categories.
Tencent Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) is headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen.
Visa Inc.
$441.61 billion
Industry: Financial services.
Visa Inc. founded in 1958 and is an international company that carries out payment transactions and bank transfers between financial institutions.
Visa is the second largest payment system in the world based on data on cards issued and transactions. Visa cards can be used to pay in more than 200 countries.
Most of the company's transactions are processed using the VisaNet electronic payment network.
What is noteworthy is that the company has four centers for processing transfer data, which are located in Colorado, Virginia, England and Singapore. They are reliably protected from possible criminal interventions and natural disasters.
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
Headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Market capitalization as a method of estimating the value of a company
Market capitalization, along with annual income and the sum of all assets, is one of the methods for assessing the investment attractiveness of a company.
Using market capitalization to represent company size is important because company size is a major determinant of various characteristics that investors are interested in, including risk.
Being the product of the number of shares and their price, market capitalization is not the price at which the owner will necessarily sell his company.
Despite the fact that companies can be overvalued by the market or, on the contrary, undervalued, in order to obtain the real value of a company it is necessary to consider its activities from a fundamental point of view.
Companies that showed the highest market capitalization in 2016 and were recognized as the most expensive by this indicator: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Berkshire Hathaway, Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, General Electric, Wells Fargo.
The holdings whose shares collectively have the highest price in the world are the most expensive by market capitalization. This indicator should not be confused with market value.
During inter-exchange trading, the price of shares constantly fluctuates, so capitalization changes daily. The ranking indicates capitalization, on the basis of which the English-language edition of Forbes magazine prepared and published a list of the most valuable companies in the world in May 2016, as well as some capitalization indicators in 2017. All ten places in the ranking belong to American corporations.
Apple
The status of the world's most valuable corporation by market capitalization belongs to the legendary Apple, a public company founded by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak in April 1976. Until January 2007, it was called Apple Computer, Inc.
Produces:
- computer equipment;
- telephones;
- tablets;
- TVs;
- smart watch;
- digital music players;
- software;
- operating systems under the iCloud and Apple brands.
Apple has firmly established a unique reputation as a manufacturer of electronics with aesthetic design coupled with modern innovative technologies.
Capitalization: 586 billion US dollars at the time of Forbes magazine’s ranking for 2016, and 766 billion dollars at the beginning of April 2016
Since 2016, the company’s capitalization has had a pronounced growth trend, reaching a figure of more than 700 billion US dollars by the beginning of 2017.
Corporate headquarters Apple is located in the Californian city of Cupertino.
Apple has gone from a small startup founded in Steve Jobs' garage, which later became a cult figure and idol of youth around the world, to the richest corporation in terms of capitalization. It is interesting that the initial capital for starting the business was the money earned by Jobs from the sale of a minibus and Wozniak from the sale of a calculator (!).
Alphabet
Second place is occupied by a company owned by the founders of the Google Inc holding, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It owns several large companies and Google Inc itself, whose shares were converted into shares of Alphabet Inc.
Market capitalization: $500.1 billion in May 2016 and $586 billion at the beginning of 2017.
The transformation of Google into Alphabet was officially announced in August 2015, a move that raised eyebrows among the general public. Since then, the Google receiver has repeatedly overtaken the giant Apple and taken first place in the top of the most valuable companies in the world by market capitalization.
The headquarters of the holding is located in the world center of high technology accumulation - Silicon Valley in the USA in the small town of Mountain View, California.
Before the end of 2017, the American holding Alphabet intends to begin construction of a building with an area of 85 square meters. meters in London, which will become its headquarters.
According to the publishing house Gazeta.ru, analysts expect a significant increase in the capitalization of the holding due to the rapid growth of the mobile advertising market; according to forecasts, by 2019 the volume of this market could reach $200 billion.
Remarkable is the fact that Alphabet controls 12% of all the money spent on media advertising in the world. This information is provided by the national professional advertising industry magazine Adweek. No company in the world has previously single-handedly controlled such a gigantic share of the global advertising market.
Microsoft Corporation
The largest transnational software developer, founded by Bill Gates (now the richest man in the world) and Paul Allen, turned 42 years old in April 2017. The programs that Microsoft develops are intended for personal computers, laptops, mobile phones, and game consoles.
Capitalization:$407 billion in May 2016 and $514 billion at the beginning of April 2017.
The holding's headquarters is located in the city of Redmond, located in Washington State (USA).
Microsoft Corporation has launched several IoT laboratory projects: in Washington, Redmond and Shenzhen, and recently in Munich, Germany. These are the so-called Internet of Things laboratories. The idea of the projects is that in the near future all household appliances: from vacuum cleaners to refrigerators will be connected to the Internet.
ExxonMobil
Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, ranks fourth on the list. The founder of the parent trust of Standard Oil Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, is John Rockefeller, the first dollar billionaire in human history.
It is engaged in the exploration, development and distribution of gas and oil, trades in petroleum products, and produces petrochemicals.
Capitalization: 363.3 billion US dollars in May 2016, 366 billion dollars at the beginning of 2017.
The headquarters is located in the Texas city of Irving.
In 2011, Exxon Mobil entered into an agreement with one of the largest Russian oil companies, Rosneft, on joint exploration and production of oil reserves on the Black Sea shelf. However, due to US sanctions imposed in 2014, joint work was suspended.
Berkshire Hathaway
The holding was founded in 1955 by Oliver Chase (now chairman of the board of directors and owner - Warren Buffett). Activities of the holding: insurance, investments, utilities and other services. Freight and rail transportation, financial transactions, trade, production.
Capitalization:$360.1 billion as of May 2016.
The headquarters is located in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
In 2015, according to Forbes, Berkshire Hathaway was ranked fifth (the first four places belong to Chinese banks) among the largest public companies in the world and first among American ones.
The world's largest social network Facebook and the company of the same name, created in 2004 by a psychology student at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg, together with his friends: Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Soverino and Chris Hughes, were also included in the list of the 10 most valuable companies in the world.
Facebook owned: app with elements social network Instagram and the instant messaging app WhatsApp. The main server of the site is located in the Californian city of Menlo Park.
Facebook is one of the five most visited sites in the world, and its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, at the age of 23, was awarded the title of the youngest billionaire in the world.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson holding, founded by three brothers Robert, James and Edward Johnson in 1886. Produces medications, medical equipment and hygiene products.
Capitalization:$312.6 billion.
The head office is located in New Jersey in New Brunswick. Current Chairman of the Board: Alex Gorski.
At first, the holding was engaged in the production of plasters and dressings. Now the corporation has more than 250 subsidiaries around the world.
Amazon.com
The world's largest company selling goods online was founded in 1994 by Jeffrey Preston Bezos.
Capitalization:$292.6 billion as of May 2016.
The name was chosen in honor of the Amazon River. Initially, only books were sold, then CDs and video products appeared. Now through the Amazon online store you can buy almost industrial goods: from clothing and toys to food and electronics.
General Electric
The American diversified manufacturing giant General Electric was originally founded by the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison, in 1878. Now the key figure of the company is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors Jeffrey Immelt.
The company produces engines, turbines, locomotives, nuclear reactors, photo and household appliances, lighting equipment, military products (including nuclear warheads) and other products.
The company's headquarters is located in the state of Connecticut, Fairfield (USA).
Serial production of the holding began in 1910 with the production of light bulbs with tungsten filament, the patent for the use of which was acquired from the Russian inventor A.N. Lodygina.
Wells Fargo
The banking company founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo in 1852 is one of the four largest banks in the United States and the most valuable bank by market capitalization in the world. Provides financial and insurance services.
Capitalization:$256 billion as of May 2016.
The company itself is located in San Francisco, California, and the headquarters of the banking division is in South Dakota.
Wells Fargo was the first bank to offer customers in 1995 the opportunity to carry out account transactions via the Internet: buy and sell securities, pay bills. The controlling stake in the company is controlled by the Berkshire Hathaway holding, owned by multi-billionaire Warren Buffett, which is in fifth place by capitalization in this ranking.
This is a list of companies whose shares collectively have the highest price. The largest Russian companies, as well as others except American ones, were not included in it.
American Forbes published a ranking of the 100 most valuable brands in the world. The editors took into account company profits over the past three years and the coefficient of the impact of nonsense on profits in different industries (for example, for luxury consumer goods, the brand significantly affects profits, but for airline and oil companies it does not). The list of the 100 most valuable brands includes brands from 15 countries from 20 industries. Almost half of the ranking is occupied by American brands, nine brands are German, seven each are Japanese and French. Automotive and high-tech brands predominate. The 20 most expensive brands in the world - below.
1. Apple
Brand value: $145.3 billion Change over the year: +17% The Apple brand is worth at least twice as much as any other brand in the Forbes ranking. In the fourth quarter of 2014, the company sold 74.8 million smartphones worldwide, overtaking Samsung, which has not happened since 2011. iPhone sales grew 49%, with revenue for the quarter amounting to $18 billion.2.Microsoft
Brand value: $69.3 billion Change over the year: +10% Since February 2014, the company has been headed by a native of India, Satya Nadella. In the summer of 2015, Microsoft is going to release new version Windows. 3. Google
Brand value: $65.6 billion Year-over-year change: +16% Google is still king search system in USA. Its share of the search engine market is 64.4%. In April 2015, the European Union accused Google of violating antitrust laws. EU officials say the company is abusing its dominant position. If the search giant is found guilty, it faces a $6 billion fine. 4. Coca-Cola
Brand value: $56 billion Year-over-year change: 0% Coca-Cola's U.S. sales increased 0.1% in 2014. But this small increase is significant for the company, since this is the first increase in Coca-Cola sales in the domestic market since 2000. The fly in the ointment: the company's net profit in 2014 decreased by 17%, and Diet Coke sales fell by 6.6%. 5. IBM
Brand value: $49.8 billion Change for the year: +4% The company has been having a hard time lately - sales of IBM equipment have been declining for 12 quarters in a row. But IBM is not discouraged and is going to turn from a hardware manufacturer into a leader in the cloud computing market. In the first quarter of 2015, income from the clouds it created grew by 60%. 6. McDonald's
Brand value: $39.5 billion Change over the year: -1% McDonald's serves about 69 million customers every day in 100 countries. But recently the brand has been faced with changing eating habits in the United States and high demands for food quality in Asia. In the first quarter of 2015, McDonald's sales decreased by 11%. This year the company plans to close about 700 unprofitable restaurants in the United States, China and Japan. 7. Samsung
Brand value: $37.9 billion Change over the year: +8% Due to strong competition from Apple in the segment of expensive gadgets and Chinese manufacturers in the budget price segment, Samsung's growth has slowed. This year the company hopes for successful sales of the new S6 smartphone. 8.Toyota
Brand value: $37.8 billion Change over the year: +21% Toyota is the most profitable brand in the world - in 2014 the company showed a net profit of $19.8 billion. 9. General Electric
Brand value: $37.5 billion Year-over-year change: +1% General Electric is the only company to have been a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since its inception in 1896. In May 2015, it became known that General Electric was going to sell its Japanese division. 10. Facebook
Brand value: $36.5 billion Change over the year: +54% Facebook has the largest increase in brand value over the past year among the ranking participants. The social network has 936 million daily active users and 1.44 billion monthly active users. 11. Disney
Brand value: $34.6 billion Year-over-year change: +26% 12.AT&T
Brand value: $29.1 billion Year-over-year change: +17% 13. Amazon.com
Brand value: $28.1 billion Year-over-year change: +32% 14.Louis Vuitton
Brand value: $28.1 billion Year-over-year change: -6% 15. Cisco
Brand value: $27.6 billion Year over year change: -2% 16. BMW
Brand value: $27.5 billion Year over year change: -5% 17. Oracle
Brand value: $26.8 billion Year over year change: +4% 18. Nike
Brand value: $26.3 billion Year-over-year change: +19% 19. Intel
Brand value: $25.8 billion Year over year change: -8% 20. Wal-Mart
Brand value: $24.7 billion Year-over-year change: +6% 05/22/2015 at 01:29 pm · Johnny · 58 610
Top 10 richest people in the world in 2015
Humanity has always loved money and it did not matter what it was made of: shells, metal or paper. Money is not only the key to a secure and comfortable life, but also a symbol of prosperity, power and success. IN modern world rich people are very popular, films are made about them, books are written, journalists do not give them a pass. And what more money in a person, the more attention his person attracts. People are interested in him personal life, family, habits and the way a person earned his money. We present you the top 10 list richest people in the world in 2015.
10. Liliane Bettencourt | $30 billion
Our list begins with a woman who in 1957 became co-owner of the French company L’Oreal. A former socialite, she was declared incapacitated in 2011 due to Alzheimer's disease. Her net worth is 30 billion American dollars, and it is considered richest woman in Europe.
This year, the Bettencourt family managed to buy out another 8% of the shares of L’Oreal, which was founded back in 1907 by Lilian’s father, Eugene Schueller.
9. Jim Walton | $40.6 billion
This is an American billionaire, the son of the famous Sam Walton, who created Wal-Mart. The son continued his father's work. His fortune is estimated at an astronomical amount, 40.6 billion dollars. He ranks ninth in our “hit parade” of the richest people in the world.
The global chain was heavily criticized last year for the low pay it pays its employees. In early 2015, Wal-Mart announced an increase in minimum wages.
Jim Walton also runs the family bank.
8. Christy Walton | $41.7 billion
At number eight on our list of the richest people on the planet is another woman who also got her fortune thanks to the Wal-Mart retail chain. Her late husband, Sam Walton, created this retail chain and after his death in 2005, Christy Walton became a very wealthy widow. She was very prudent in investing in First Solar's solar panel business. Today her net worth is 41.7 billion dollars.
At the same time, Christie does not like to appear in public. In one year, Christie became $5 billion richer.
7. David Koch | $42.9 billion
Another US citizen who has a fortune at 42.9 billion dollars. Over the course of a year, Koch managed to become 2.9 billion richer. David Koch and his brother own Koch Industries, which is involved in many areas of activity. These include oil refining, pipeline construction, logistics, paint and varnish production, and construction materials manufacturing.
David Koch is actively involved in politics: he is called one of the main sponsors of the American Republican Party. In addition, he spends a lot of money on charitable projects.
6. Charles Koch | $42.9 billion
Number six on our list of the richest people is another representative of the Koch family - Charles Koch. The family business allowed him to become the owner of a fortune in 42.9 billion dollars for 2015. It is Charles who controls family business and does it very successfully. He headed the Koch Industries holding in 1967 and managed to turn it into largest company USA. He is considered one of the most influential people in American business and politics. The brothers are constantly expanding their own business, acquiring new assets.
5. Lawrence Alison | $54.3 billion
Another US representative on our list of the world's richest billionaires. Alison, a native of Silicon Valley, thanks to his intelligence and talent, was able to create the largest company, Oracle, and become the owner of a fortune in 54.3 billion dollars. Alison started his career as a simple programmer, worked for the CIA, and then went into business.
Alison left office in 2014 general director Oracle Corporation and became director of technology development. He is a fan of sailing and actively buys real estate. His daughter, Megan, is a highly successful film producer and has already directed several films in Hollywood.
4. Amancio Ortega | 64.5 billion
In fourth place is a billionaire of Spanish origin, who was born into a very poor family, but managed to become one of richest people on the planet. Amancio Ortega grew up in the family of a simple railroad worker, and is now called one of the best traders in the world. His net worth is 64.5 billion dollars. Ortega is the founder of the Zara brand.
He began sewing clothes together with his wife right in his own apartment. Currently, his company’s stores can be found in dozens of countries around the world. Zara survived the 2009 crisis quite easily, and over the past year Ortega was able to earn $0.5 billion. The company has a very strict investment policy and spends relatively little money on advertising. Ortega personally runs his empire. In recent years, the billionaire has been actively investing in the purchase of luxury real estate in different corners globe. Zara is one of the most successful companies in Spain and throughout Europe.
3. Warren Buffett | 72.7 billion
Another billionaire comes from the USA. His net worth is 72.7 billion dollars. Over the past year, Buffett became richer by another $14.5 billion. 2014 was a very successful year for Buffett, but even the record amount he earned was not enough to return to second place in our ranking of the richest people on the planet.
Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's financial empire, controls many companies in different sectors of the economy: energy, transport, construction and many others. The company's shares are among the most expensive on the American stock exchange. Despite his advanced age, Buffett is actively involved in the company's affairs; at the end of last year, Berkshire Hathaway bought shares of the world famous battery manufacturer Duracell.
Buffett has a reputation as a generous patron and philanthropist. Every year he spends billions of dollars on charitable causes. The total amount of his donations is $23 billion.
2. Carlos Slim Helu | 77.1 billion
In second place on our hit parade richest people on the planet settled by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helu, who has a fortune 77.1 billion dollars. This man made his fortune in telecommunications, mobile communications and financial transactions. Over the past year, Elu became richer by another $5.1 billion. His empire includes the industrial holding Grupo Carso, financial group Grupo Financiero Inbursa and the company Ideal, which deals with infrastructure projects.
1. Bill Gates | 79.2 billion
Our list is headed by the creator of Microsoft, Bill Gates. For the sixteenth time he became richest man on the planet over the past twenty-one years. For several years, Carlos Slim lost the palm to El, but last year he was able to regain his leadership position. This happened largely due to successful financial policies. Gates' net worth: 79.2 billion dollars, over the past year he became richer by another 3.2 billion.
In recent years, Bill Gates has been investing more and more in various assets around the world and reducing his stake in Microsoft. Gates is actively involved in charitable activities, his projects are aimed at helping, and he also spends large amounts of money on educational projects in the United States.
What else to see:
Brand value:$145.3 billion
Change over the year:+17%
The Apple brand is worth at least twice as much as any other brand on the Forbes list. In the fourth quarter of 2014, the company sold 74.8 million smartphones worldwide, overtaking Samsung, which has not happened since 2011. iPhone sales grew 49%, with revenue for the quarter amounting to $18 billion.
Brand value:$69.3 billion
Change over the year: +10%
Since February 2014, the company has been headed by Satya Nadella, a native of India. In the summer of 2015, Microsoft is going to release a new version of Windows.
Brand value:$65.6 billion
Change over the year:+16%
Google is still the main search engine in the US. Its share of the search engine market is 64.4%. In April 2015, the European Union accused Google of violating antitrust laws. EU officials say the company is abusing its dominant position. If the search giant is found guilty, it faces a $6 billion fine.
Brand value:$56 billion
Change over the year: 0%
Coca-Cola's US sales increased 0.1% in 2014. But this small increase is significant for the company, since this is the first increase in Coca-Cola sales in the domestic market since 2000. The fly in the ointment: the company's net profit in 2014 decreased by 17%, and Diet Coke sales fell by 6.6%.
Brand value:$49.8 billion
Change over the year: +4%
The company has been having a hard time lately - sales of IBM equipment have been declining for 12 consecutive quarters. But IBM is not discouraged and is going to turn from a hardware manufacturer into a leader in the cloud computing market. In the first quarter of 2015, income from the clouds it created grew by 60%.
Brand value:$39.5 billion
Change over the year: -1%
McDonald's serves about 69 million customers every day in 100 countries. But recently, the brand has been faced with changing eating habits in the United States and high demands for food quality in Asia. In the first quarter of 2015, McDonald's sales decreased by 11 %. This year the company plans to close about 700 unprofitable restaurants in the United States, China and Japan.
Brand value:$37.9 billion
Change over the year:+8%
Due to strong competition from Apple in the expensive gadget segment and Chinese manufacturers in the budget price segment, Samsung's growth has slowed down. This year the company hopes for successful sales of the new S6 smartphone.
Brand value:$37.8 billion
Change over the year:+21%
Toyota is the most profitable brand in the world - in 2014 the company showed a net profit of $19.8 billion.
9. General Electric
Brand value:$37.5 billion
