Biggest Companies in Canada

So, Who is big business in Canada? - Do you really know the company names?
If you wanted to get a good job in "international business" in Canada, do you know the playaz ?

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2010

 

UPDATE  2009

student Ashok S. in MGTC44 in Jan 2010 kindly sent this email with an update. Ashok says I found a more up-to-date version (FP500 for 2008)of the top companies in Canada on the Financial Post Magazine website. (http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/fp500/list.html ). In comparison from the previous chart I found that a lot of oil companies have gone up in ranking and some of the banks have fallen in ranking. Most probably due to the increase in worldwide crude all prices in 2008 and the fall of the american banks (Lehman Brothers) due to thier encunters with the sub prime mortgages last year. A company that i wasn't aware of prior who did well in the period was Power Corporation of Canada. On first note I thought it was an energy company just like Toronto hydro or OPEG. However they deal with media, pulp, paper and financial services which includes the resource advantages that Canada has. I found all this very interesting.

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2008

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2007

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2007
taken from  http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/fp500/charts/data1.html on Sept 5th 2007

Ranking		Revenue		Profit
2006	2005	Company	Amount 2006 $000s	Amount 2006 $000s
1	4	Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto	36,045,000	4,728,000
2	2	Manulife Financial Corp., Toronto	34,194,000	3,970,000
3	1	General Motors of Canada Ltd., Oshawa.	33,340,112	n.a.
4	3	George Weston Ltd., Toronto	32,167,000	121,000
5	7	Power Corp. of Canada, Montreal	30,304,000	1,393,000
6	6	Magna International Inc., Aurora, Ont.	27,420,120	598,752
7	8	Alcan Inc., Montreal	26,808,894	2,029,860
8	5	Imperial Oil Ltd., Calgary	24,505,000	3,044,000
9	9	Sun Life Financial Inc., Toronto	24,287,000	2,144,000
10	14	The Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax	22,482,000	3,579,000
11	13	The Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto	22,302,000	4,603,000
12	10	DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc.	20,534,000	n.a.
13	12	Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,	20,166,000	2,646,000
14	16	Petro-Canada, Calgary	18,911,000	1,740,000
15	18	Onex Corp., Toronto	18,620,000	1,002,000
16	17	EnCana Corp., Calgary	18,596,466	6,409,368
17	19	Bank of Montreal, Montreal	18,153,000	2,663,000
18	11	BCE Inc., Montreal	17,713,000	2,007,000
19	15	Bombardier Inc., Montreal	16,830,976	304,448
20	20	Shell Canada Ltd., Calgary	14,651,000	1,738,000
21	33	Suncor Energy Inc., Calgary	14,342,000	2,971,000
22	22	Wal-Mart Canada Corp.,	14,300,000	n.a.
23	21	Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Ltd.,	13,809,000	n.a.
24	25	Empire Co. Ltd., Stellarton, N.S.	13,161,100	296,800
25	26	The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc.	13,093,142	121,965
26	24	Nortel Networks Corp., Toronto	12,948,012	31,752
27	29	Husky Energy Inc., Calgary	12,664,000	2,726,000
28	23	Honda Canada Inc., Toronto	12,600,000	n.a.
29	30	Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., Laval, Que.	12,056,715	232,889
30	32	Novelis Inc., Atlanta, Ga.	11,168,766	-311,850
31	27	Hydro-Québec, Montreal	11,161,000	3,741,000
32	51	Metro Inc., Montreal	10,944,000	253,000
33	35	ACE Aviation Holdings Inc., Montreal	10,657,000	408,000
34	39	Enbridge Inc., Calgary	10,644,500	622,300
35	38	Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.,	10,398,000	2,524,000
36	34	Falconbridge Ltd., Toronto	9,867,228	1,055,992
37	31	Quebecor Inc., Montreal	9,822,100	-93,900
38	37	Mouvement des caisses Desjardins,	9,398,000	988,000
39	41	Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd., Ont.	9,049,005	n.a.
40	44	Rogers Communications Inc., Toronto	8,838,000	622,000

Most student will know the American company names of the big players in international business because you have been living in North America. The purpose in having you look through lists on Top 500 websites is to see the names of some of the big European and Asian companies - they are important players too and also influence your business, or may even be your employer .

What can we infer from knowing the number of Cdn companies on the Fortune Global 500?

You can see the position changes of some of the well known company names - might help you deciding which ones to send your resume to when you finish 4th year - or it may indicate which sectors are hot and which are fading. For example Walmart, a service company, has moved ahead of Exxon and GM, manufacturing companies (from 2000 - 2002), but then in 2003 fell behind Exxon.
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Who made the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2000 ?  130 - Nortel Networks 322 - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 327 - Royal Bank of Canada 337 - George Weston (Loblaws) 344 - Seagram (alcohol) 387 - Toronto-Dominion Bank 410 - Bank of Montreal 466 - Power Corp. of Canada 482 - Canadian Pacific 491-  Magna International

Who made the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2002 ?  263 - Nortel Networks 299 - Royal Bank of Canada 318 - George Weston (Loblaws) 339 - BCE - Bell Canada Entreprises 360 - Bombardier 361 - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 366 - Bank of Nova Scotia 370 - Toronto-Dominion Bank 408 - Alcan 432 - Power Corporation 435 - TransCanada Pipelines 449 - Bank of Montreal 456 -  Magna International 465 - Sun Life Financial Services 483 - Manulife Financial Corporation not in the 500 for 2002 - Canadian Pacific

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Who made the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2003 ?  240 - George Weston (Loblaws) 303 - Royal Bank of Canada 310 - Bombardier 328 -  Magna International 337 - Sun Life Financial Services 388 - BCE - Bell Canada Entreprises 404 - Alcan 458 - Manulife Financial Corporation 459 - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 487 - Power Corporation 500 - Toronto-Dominion Bank

Who makes the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2008 ?

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Globe & Mail's top companies in Canada by profit (2004)
 

Rank		Company and Year-End	Profit		Revenue
2004	2003		$000	% Ch’ge	$000	Rank	% Ch’ge
1	1	EnCana Corp	3,513,000	38	12,241,000	21	10
2	3	Bank of Nova Scotia	2,931,000	18	16,497,000	19	-4
3	2	Royal Bank of Canada	2,817,000	-6	25,204,000	6	2
4	11	Manulife Financial	2,564,000	66	27,265,000	3	65
5	7	Bank of Montreal	2,351,000	29	13,208,000	23	0
6	19	Toronto-Dominion Bank	2,310,000	115	16,015,000	20	2
7	5	Cdn. Imp. Bank of Commerce	2,199,000	7	16,705,000	17	-2
8	9	Imperial Oil	2,033,000	21	21,206,000	11	18
9	nr	Manufacturers Life Insurance	2,015,000	23	19,991,000	13	3
10	10	Petro-Canada	1,757,000	6	14,442,000	22	10

 

Clearly the banks and the oil companies appear to be the big players in the Canadian economy Both kinds of companies (operating in a monopolistic environment) are, in a sense, companies which make money off of other companies. The phrase "economic pimps" was used by one student and he dared me to use it on the web site.