The Top 25

Here is the Fortune 500 ranking of the nation’s largest companies compiled by Fortune magazine on the basis of 1995 sales:

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1995 sales Rank Company/headquarters ’94 rank (billions) 1. General Motors, Detroit unchanged $168.8 2. Ford Motor, Dearborn, Mich. unchanged 137.1 3. Exxon, Irving, Texas unchanged 110.0 4. Wal-Mart Stores, Bentonville, Ark. unchanged 93.6 5. AT&T;, New York unchanged 79.6 6. IBM, Armonk, N.Y. 7th 71.9 7. General Electric, Fairfield, Conn. 6th 70.0 8. Mobil, Fairfax, Va. unchanged 66.7 9. Chrysler, Auburn Hills, Mich. 11th 53.2 10. Philip Morris, New York unchanged 53.1 11. Prudential Insurance, Newark, N.J. 13th 41.3 12. State Farm, Bloomington, Ill. unchanged 40.8 13. DuPont, Wilmington, Del. 14th 37.6 14. Texaco, White Plains, N.Y. 16th 36.8 15. Sears Roebuck, Hoffman Estates, Ill. 9th 35.2 16. Kmart, Troy, Mich. 15th 34.7 17. Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati 19th 33.4 18. Chevron, San Francisco unchanged 32.1 19. Citicorp, New York 17th 31.7 20. Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, Calif. 22nd 31.5 21. PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y. 20th 30.4 22. Metropolitan Life Insurance, New York 27th 28.0 23. Amoco, Chicago 21st 27.7 24. Motorola, Schaumburg, Ill. 28th 27.0 25. American International Group, New York 26th 25.9

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