Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries topped the list of 13 Israeli companies that made it into this year’s Forbes ranking of the world’s 2,000 biggest companies.
“Many of the names of this year’s Forbes Global 2000 list … will emerge on the other side of the trough far stronger when the world economies snap back next year,” said Scott DeCarlo, project editor of the Forbes Global 2000 list.
“For the strong corporations there are rivals to buy, technologies to fund and new markets to enter — all at lower prices than we have seen in years.”
Four Israeli companies joined the list and one Israeli company dropped off from last year.
New entrants to the list, which was released in April, are: Bezeq Tele-communications, Africa Israel Investments, Check Point Software Technologies, and Gazit Globe. Israel’s Oil Refineries fell off the list.
Teva Pharmaceuticals ranked 381 of the 2,000 largest companies around the world, down from 346th place last year, followed by Bank Leumi at 808 and Bank Hapoalim at 859. — jps