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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Walmart employees more people than any other company in the US.
And they have the highest revenue of any company in America.

Oh, and they are the 8th largest trading partner with China.  Just
edging out Britain and Russia.

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> Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Wal-Mart
> 
> > > The fact that they are the largest company in America is just
scary.
> >
> > I've always wondered - what does it mean to be largest?
> 
> As a sub-question, what does "largest company in America" mean?
> 
> Company whose United-States-based (employees/assets/offices) are
maximal?
> 
> OR
> 
> Company whose global assets are maximal, then restricted to ones with
> US headquarters?
> 
> IOW, is it based solely on the corporate assets held within America?
> 
> Is "largest company in America" not go to an IBM, for instance (dunno
> what the comparative market caps are, and I'm not going to check :)
> because while their overall numbers may be higher than Wal-Mart, their
> intra-America ones are lower?  Is an IBM (or whoever) invalidated from
> that list for having foreign offices in the first place?
> 
> Meaningless rambles as I wait for a compile :)
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