Volume 7, Issue 7- August 2, 2006
Fortune Magazine’s List of the Top 500 Companies
Who are at the top of the 500 most successful companies world-wide? How “little” can a company make and still be part of this exclusive club? These questions are answered in the July 24, 2006, issue of Fortune Magazine.
ExxonMobil wins the #1 Spot with annual revenues of $339.9 billion. Slightly down the list at #5 is General Motors at $192.6 billion. The #500 company, the last on this list but certainly still a star, is NIKE. This athletic footwear maker has annual revenues of $13.7 billion.
What does it take to be big? Check out these books and Websites for the stories of the top five companies on Fortune’s list:
1. EXXON MOBIL
Book: The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous World, by Paul Roberts. This book examines the energy sources that could replace oil and how disruptive such a transition would be.
Web: www.exxonmobil.com; topix.net/forum/com/xom
2. WAL-MART
Book: The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy, by Charles Fishman. In this book, Fishman suggests that the story of Wal-Mart is really the story of the transformation of America. A story in which market dominance has become a double-edge sword.
Web: www.walmartfacts.com; www.walmartwatch.com
3. ROYAL DUTCH SHELL
Book: A Century in Oil: The Shell Transport and Trading company 1897 – 1997, by Stephen Howarth. This is an authorized history of the Anglo-Dutch giant.
Web: www.shell.com; www.royaldutchshellplc.com
4. BP
Book:Oil Titans, by Valerie Marcel, with contributions by former BP advisor John V. Mitchell. An insider’s look at state-owned oil firms including the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, the National Iranian Oil Company and Sonatrach of Algeria.
Web: www.bp.com
5. GENERAL MOTORS
Book: Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History, by William Pelfrey.
Web: www.gm.com; www.fastlane.gmblogs.com
http://goldensegroupinc.com/GGI_RapidNews/RapidNewsVol7Iss7.shtml
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
