Wal-Mart tops Fortune 500. (Business briefs).(Brief Article)
Home Textiles Today, April, 2002
Only 40 years after its birth as a small-town Southern retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. tops the Fortune 500 list to become the world's largest company with annual sales of almost $220 billion. In claiming the top spot, Wal-Mart, No. 2 on the Fortune 500 last year, bumped aside oil giant Exxon Mobil.
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