Reliance Industries, the country's largest company by revenues, profits and market value, is India's best employer and the world's 20th best firm to work with, according to Forbes' World's Best Employers rankings 2022. The global ranking was topped by South Korean giant Samsung Electronics, followed by US giants Microsoft, IBM, Alphabet and Apple. US companies occupy rankings from 2nd to 12th , followed by German automaker BMW Group at 13th. The world's largest online retailer Amazon is ranked 14th in the list and French giant Decathlon is at 15th rank. Oil-to-telecom-to-retail conglomerate Reliance, with 2,30,000 employees, is ranked 20th - the highest ranked Indian firm. It is ranked above Mercedes-Benz of Germany, US beverage maker Coca-Cola, Japanese auto giants Honda and Yamaha, and Saudi Aramco. There is no Indian company other than Reliance in the top 100. HDFC Bank is ranked 137th. Bajaj (173rd), Aditya Birla Group (240th), Hero Motocorp (333rd), Larsen & Toubro (354th), .
In June, the Adani family committed a donation of Rs 60,000 crore towards charity initiatives in health care, education, and skill development
"Energy and banking sector corporations were among the highest-ranking Indian companies in Forbes' Global 2000 list of public companies this year," the publication said.
Agriculture startup Aquaconnect, BeatO (biotech and healthcare), Bellatrix Aerospace (logistics and transportation), Betterplace (education and recruitment) are among the Indian firms in the list
In March 2020, Ambani was ranked 21st on Forbes' annual billionaire list, with a net worth of $36.8 billion, while Page and Brin were 13th and 14th.
Forbes also reported that due to coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic almost every sport has seen a dip in the players earnings with America Football being an exception
With an estimated $106.3 million earned over the past 12 months, the Swiss maestro edged out Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo from the top spot
Cristiano Ronaldo topped the list with a total pay of $93 mn; Serena Williams sole woman listed
The 28-year-old Indian star player is placed at the seventh spot with a brand value of $14.5 million
Ranked 83rd last year, Kohli has climbed down to the 100th and last spot despite an increase of $1 million in endorsements
As many as 17 Indian firms, including Infosys, TCS and HDFC, have been named in the list of World's Best Regarded Companies compiled by Forbes
National Award-winning actor Akshay Kumar has made it to the fourth position on the Forbes magazine's Worlds Highest-Paid Actors Of 2019 list
China's Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) tops the list for the seventh year in a row.
Forbes list that includes tech heavyweights IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Netflix executive Anne Aaron
Others on the list include Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson
Shahrukh is at the eighth spot on the list with earnings of 38 million dollars, followed by Salman
Despite slowing GDP figures, China and the US continue to dominate the top 10 list