List of the largest companies in Kuwait
The Largest Companies List in Kuwait includes the largest publicly traded companies in Kuwait published by Forbes Magazine on the Forbes Global 2000 list .
The ranking of the annual list of the 2000 largest publicly traded companies in the world is calculated from a combination of sales , net profit , assets and market value . The placements of the companies in the equally weighted categories were added together to form a rank. The table also shows the headquarters , the industry and the number of employees. The figures are in billions of US dollars and relate to fiscal year 2008, for the market value to the stock exchange price on February 27, 2009.
Largest publicly traded company
| rank |
Forbes 2000 |
Surname |
Headquarters |
Revenue ($ billion) |
Profit ($ billion) |
Assets ($ billion) |
Market Value ($ billion) |
Employee |
Branch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 498 | Zain Group | Kuwait City | 7.45 | 1.20 | 19.76 | 9.61 | 16,000 | telecommunications |
| 2. | 663. | National Bank of Kuwait | 2.73 | 1.00 | 42.27 | 9.30 | Banks | ||
| 3. | 734 | Kuwait Finance House | 2.60 | 1.01 | 32.19 | 6.93 | Business services | ||
| 4th | 1080. | Commercial Bank of Kuwait | 1.08 | 0.44 | 15.69 | 4.10 | Banks | ||
| 5. | 1154. | Kuwait Investment Projects | 3.01 | 1.91 | 15.38 | 1.04 | Banks | ||
| 6th | 1329. | Agility Logistics | 6.11 | 0.56 | 5.62 | 2.24 | Transportation | ||
| 7th | 1547. | National Industries Group | 0.43 | 0.77 | 8.03 | 1.12 | Construction company | ||
| 8th. | 1563. | ABK | 0.77 | 0.28 | 10.83 | 2.60 | Banks | ||
| 9. | 1963. | Burgan Bank | 0.82 | 0.27 | 10.42 | 1.08 | Banks | ||
| Aviation Lease and Finance Company | Aircraft leasing | ||||||||
| Kuwait News Agency | 365 | News agency | |||||||
| Kuwait Petroleum Corporation | Kuwait City | oil | |||||||
| Petrochemical Industries Company | chemistry | ||||||||
| Jazeera Airways | Kuwait City | airline | |||||||
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait City | 3,735 | airline |