Of the top 200 global companies 

(including GM, Shell, Citigroup, Sony, AOL Time Warner, Exxon Mobil, Siemens, Mitsubishi and Microsoft) 

Their Headquarters are:

82 in USA - 41 in Japan - 20 in Germany.

Their Profits (1983 - 1997)

grew  224%  (world economy grew 144%)

Their Sales are:

* bigger than the combined economies of 180 of the 190 countries of the world 

* 18 times the combined income of the world's 1.2 billion poorest people.

Sarah Anderson & John Cavanagh “The Top 200”