Fortune Magazine has announced the list of the world's biggest companies. For a complete list check here

Here is the list of the top ten

Revenue (in millions of US dollars)/Profit (in millions of US dollars)

1 Wal-Mart Stores - Retail
378,799/12,731

2 Exxon Mobil - Oil/Energy
372,824/40,610

3 Royal Dutch Shell - Oil/Energy
355,782/31,331

4 BP - Oil/Energy
291,438/20,845

5 Toyota Motor - Automotive
230,201/15,042

6 Chevron - Oil/Energy
210,783/18,688

7 ING Group - Financial
201,516/12,649

8 Total - Oil/Energy
187,280/18,042

9 General Motors - Automotive
182,347/-38,732 <<<<----Yes that's a negative profit!

10 ConocoPhillips - Oil/Energy
178,558/11,891

A couple of Other companies of note:

11 General Electric - Diversified
29 AT&T - Technology/Communications
57 Nestle - Food
75 Sony - Technology/Entertainment
83 US Postal Service
136 Microsoft - Tech
150 Time/Warner - Entertainement
184 Pepsi - Beverages and Food
207 Disney - Entertainment
222 Air France -- Airline -- World's larget Airline company
275 Coke - Beverages
337 Apple - Technology
359 McDonalds - Food
366 American Airlines - Airline -- America's largest airline company
500 Flour - Construction

----> A vast majority of the top 50 are Oil, Automotive, or Financial