India Home To 56 Of The World's Largest Public Firms: Forbes

New York: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries leads the pack of 56 Indian firms in Forbes's annual list of the world's 2,000 largest and most powerful public companies, with the US leading the list with 586 companies.

The 2016 Forbes 'Global 2000', a snapshot of the world's largest companies, shows the dominance of US and China in the current global business landscape.

US and China-based companies dominate the top 10, with only Japan's Toyota Motor at the 10th tenth preventing a clean sweep for the two nations.

India's tally of 56 of the world's biggest companies remains the same as last year and Reliance Industries maintains its top position of leading the largest public companies in India.

Reliance improved its ranking this year to 121 from 142 last year, with a market value of USD 50.6 billion and assets worth USD 91.5 billion.

Reliance is followed by State Bank of India which is ranked 149 and has a 23.3 billion dollar market value. The other Indian companies on the list are Oil and Natural Gas ranked (220), ICICI Bank (266), HDFC Bank (275), Indian Oil (371), Tata Consultancy Services (385), NTPC (400), Bharti Airtel (453), Axis Bank (484), Infosys (590), Bharat Petroleum (650), Wipro (755, Tata Steel (1178) and Adani Enterprises (1993).

Also making to the list are Coal India (465), Larsen and Toubro (505), ITC (781), Kotak Mahindra Bank (899), Mahindra and Mahindra (901) and HCL Technologies (943). Chinese banks held on to the top three spots in the list, a comprehensive annual ranking of the world's largest public companies.

Chinese banks held on to the top three spots in the list, a comprehensive annual ranking of the world's largest public companies. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Agricultural Bank of China held onto their leading positions, despite a slowing Chinese economy that hurt profits and knocked peer Bank of China from fourth place to sixth, Forbes said.