List of largest companies of the Netherlands
This article lists the largest companies in the Netherlands in terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes.
2019 Fortune list
This list displays all 12 Dutch companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2018.[1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
| Rank | Fortune 500 rank |
Name | Industry | Revenue (USD millions) |
Profits (USD millions) |
Employees | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Royal Dutch Shell | Oil and Gas | 396,556 | 23,352 | 81,000 | The Hague |
| 2 | 24 | Exor | Finance | 175,010 | 1,590 | 314,790 | Amsterdam |
| 3 | 123 | Airbus | Aerospace and defense | 75,185 | 3,604 | 133,671 | Leiden |
| 4 | 127 | Ahold Delhaize | Retail | 74,103 | 2,116 | 225,000 | Zaandam |
| 5 | 167 | Unilever | Consumer goods | 60,167 | 11,081 | 154,848 | London, UK & Rotterdam |
| 6 | 303 | Louis Dreyfus Company | Food production | 40,571 | 355 | 16,785 | Rotterdam |
| 7 | 310 | ING Group | Banking | 39,598 | 5,619 | 53,768 | Amsterdam |
| 8 | 316 | LyondellBasell | Chemicals | 39,004 | 4,688 | 19,450 | Rotterdam |
| 9 | 446 | Randstad Holding | Consulting | 28,102 | 831 | 38,820 | Diemen |
| 10 | 467 | Heineken N.V. | Beverages | 35,251 | 1,134 | 85,610 | Amsterdam |
| 11 | 483 | Rabobank | Banking | 25,823 | 2,235 | 41,861 | Utrecht |
| 12 | 494 | Achmea | Insurance | 25,180 | 371 | 13,714 | Zeist |
2019 Forbes list
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies. The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking. The table below also lists the headquarters location and industry sector of each company. The figures are in billions of US dollars and are for the year 2018. All 25 companies in the Forbes 2000 from the Netherlands are listed.[2]
| Rank | Forbes 2000 rank |
Name | Headquarters | Revenue (billions US$) |
Profit (billions US$) |
Assets (billions US$) |
Value (billions US$) |
Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | Royal Dutch Shell | The Hague | 382.6 | 23.3 | 399.2 | 264.9 | Oil and Gas |
| 2 | 89 | ING Group | Amsterdam | 39.4 | 5.5 | 1,014.0 | 52.7 | Banking |
| 3 | 96 | Airbus | Leiden | 75.2 | 3.6 | 131.7 | 104.9 | Aerospace and defense |
| 4 | 106 | Unilever | London, United Kingdom | 60.1 | 11.1 | 68.0 | 153.6 | Consumer goods |
| 5 | 273 | Exor | Amsterdam | 169.1 | 1.6 | 190.1 | 15.9 | Finance |
| 6 | 302 | Ahold Delhaize | Zaandam | 74.1 | 2.1 | 38.1 | 28.0 | Retail |
| 7 | 368 | Heineken N.V. | Amsterdam | 26.5 | 1.1 | 49.8 | 28.3 | Beverages |
| 8 | 370 | NN Group | The Hague | 22.4 | 1.3 | 255.2 | 14.2 | Insurance |
| 9 | 393 | ASML Holding | Veldhoven | 12.9 | 3.0 | 24.8 | 85.6 | Electronics |
| 10 | 432 | Philips | Eindhoven | 21.4 | 1.3 | 29.7 | 36.3 | Conglomerate |
| 11 | 460 | Aegon N.V. | The Hague | 30.9 | 0.8 | 425.4 | 10.7 | Insurance |
| 12 | 577 | NXP Semiconductors | Eindhoven | 9.4 | 2.2 | 21.5 | 33.1 | Electronics |
| 13 | 638 | Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield | Haarlemmermeer | 3.2 | 1.2 | 73.8 | 40.3 | Real Estate |
| 14 | 688 | AkzoNobel | Amsterdam | 10.9 | 1.0 | 21.8 | 20.2 | Chemicals |
| 15 | 731 | DSM | Heerlen | 10.9 | 1.3 | 15.8 | 20.3 | Chemicals |
| 16 | 891 | Steinhoff International | Amsterdam | 14.6 | 1.3 | 24.4 | 0.5 | Retail |
| 17 | 909 | Randstad Holding | Diemen | 28.1 | 0.8 | 11.4 | 10.1 | Consulting |
| 18 | 1022 | ASR Nederland | Utrecht | 6.9 | 0.7 | 66.8 | 6.3 | Insurance |
| 19 | 1095 | Altice | Woerden | 16.8 | −0.4 | 51.8 | 3.4 | Telecommunication |
| 20 | 1272 | Wolters Kluwer | Alphen aan den Rijn | 5.0 | 0.8 | 9.8 | 19.1 | Services |
| 21 | 1288 | X5 Retail Group | The Hague | 24.4 | 0.5 | 8.9 | 7.5 | Retail |
| 22 | 1495 | Yandex | The Hague | 2.0 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 12.1 | Technology |
| 23 | 1521 | KPN | Rotterdam | 6.6 | 0.3 | 13.9 | 13.1 | Telecommunication |
| 24 | 1792 | Adyen | Amsterdam | 2.0 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 22.2 | Finance |
| 25 | 1904 | VEON | Amsterdam | 9.1 | −0.7 | 14.1 | 4.1 | Telecommunication |
References
- "Global 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- "The World's Largest Public Companies". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-07-25.