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Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine
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for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
. The list is of the 1000 largest American companies, ranked on revenues alone. Eligible companies are any which are incorporated in the United States, and for which revenues are publicly available (this list has a larger universe than "public companies
Public company

A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered Security for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, but also may include companies whose stock is traded Over-the-counter via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services such as the OTCBB and the Pink Sheets....
," as the term is commonly understood, meaning "companies whose common stock trades on a stock market
Stock market

A stock market, or equity market, is a private or public Market system for the trade of Corporation stock and Derivative s of company stock at an agreed price; these are security listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately....
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Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 Fortune
Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
. The list is of the 1000 largest American companies, ranked on revenues alone. Eligible companies are any which are incorporated in the United States, and for which revenues are publicly available (this list has a larger universe than "public companies
Public company

A public company usually refers to a company that is permitted to offer its registered Security for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, but also may include companies whose stock is traded Over-the-counter via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services such as the OTCBB and the Pink Sheets....
," as the term is commonly understood, meaning "companies whose common stock trades on a stock market
Stock market

A stock market, or equity market, is a private or public Market system for the trade of Corporation stock and Derivative s of company stock at an agreed price; these are security listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately....
"). The Fortune 500
Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 United States public corporations as measured by their gross revenue, although Fortune makes adjustments to the revenue for a number of companies, particularly to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect....
 is the subset of the list that is its 500 largest companies.

The list draws the attention of business readers seeking to learn the influential players in the American economy and prospective sales targets, as these companies tend to have large budgets and staff needs.

In 2007 and 2008, number 1 on the list was Wal-Mart Stores

See also

  • List of companies by revenue
    List of companies by revenue

    This is a list of the world's largest public and private businesses by revenue. The list is limited to companies with annual revenues exceeding 40 billion United States dollars....


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