In fact, three of the top five automakers on the Global 2000 are German.
These companies improved their financial performance enough to qualify for the Forbes Global 2000.
Now look at Venezuela, which has 26 million citizens yet only 2 Global 2000 corporations.
PetSmart and Penn National rank 2, 073 and 2, 139 on the Forbes Global 2000 list, respectively.
Palo Alto, founded in 2005, now has 11, 000 customers, including 500 among the Global 2000.
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Click here for more on companies that joined the Global 2000 via initial public offerings.
But the tides of history eventually sweep through a roster as comprehensive as the Global 2000.
Chinese investment trust Citic Securities, up 481%, leads the list of Global 2000 stock market stars.
In an instant The Forbes Global 2000 ranking had a new top 50 placer.
Which brings us to Apple, one of the great stories of this Global 2000.
Huizenga built and cashed out of two more Global 2000 companies: Blockbuster and car dealer AutoNation.
For a list top-heavy with giant corporations, the Forbes Global 2000 shows remarkable volatility.
Only Shandong Gold Mining ( SHA:600547) makes the Forbes Global 2000 based on market cap.
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Click here for more on the overall country scores and their correlation with the Forbes Global 2000.
Companies spun off from members of the Global 2000 also made a splash on this year's list.
For example, it counts a variety of Global 2000 customers, in categories like finance, consumer products and healthcare.
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Overall, Volkswagen ranks 14th on the Forbes Global 2000, with Toyota at No. 31 and GM at No. 70.
Out of the 10 best-performing stocks in the Forbes Global 2000 over the past year, six hail from China.
Yet it still is the lowest-ranked country among nations with Global 2000 companies.
There are 31 state-owned Global 2000 firms versus 25 from the private sector.
We went sniffing through our Global 2000 list to find a few prospects.
Say, five years of perspective, when it comes to our Global 2000 list.
Further, total Chinese representation on the Global 2000, 136 companies, failed to grow for the first time in a decade.
The table shows the top 20 countries in overall competitiveness, along with the number of Global 2000 companies situated there.
Inventec, Companhia Concessoes Rodoviarias, and Hyundai Development come in at 2, 012, 2, 023 and 2, 056, respectively, on Forbes Global 2000 scoring.
We sort the companies in descending order by the highest composite score and then apply our Forbes Global 2000 rank.
Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi, tells me they have inspected the types of certificates deployed in Global 2000 organizations.
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Iceland can hardly be described as an economic powerhouse, but it's something of an overachiever on the Forbes Global 2000 list.
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