Europe's 15,000 Largest Companies 2004‐2005 (29th edition)

Questions such as “who is the largest retailer in Europe?” and “can you give me a list of the top communication companies?” are frequent business information enquiries. Company ranking lists are a useful way of quickly answering these and finding the top companies in a particular industry sector or country. Europe's 15,000 Largest Companies has been fulfilling this need annually since 1985 and has now reached its 29th edition. This volume provides a variety of rankings of the top companies across Europe.

It begins by ranking Europe's 500 largest companies by sales, profits and by number of employees. The only...