Europe's Top 250 Companies Identified

Washington DC — XooxleAnswers, a professional research firm specializing in business, legal and academic research projects, today released a list of Europe's 250 largest public and private companies which is now publicly available at no charge.

A comprehensive list of Europe's top companies has not been publicly released in more than a decade. This current list provides rankings for the 250 largest companies in the European Union, based on revenue.

"It's surprisingly difficult to come up with list of the top companies in the European Union" said the research firm's founder, David Sarokin, "which is why our client came to XooxleAnswers for the list. With the client's permission, we are now able to make the list publicly available."

The list ranks Europe's largest companies by revenue for 2005, based on an expanded list of European Union countries. The list is available at the XooxleAnswers website, at: http://xooxleanswers.com/euro.aspx

The ten largest companies in Europe are:

1. Royal Dutch Shell (UK & Neth)
260.8 billion Euros

2. BP (UK)
215.6 billion Euros

3. DaimlerChrylser AG (Ger)
142.9 billion Euros

4. Total SA (FR)
122.6 billion Euros

5. Volkswagen (Ger)
99.8 billion Euros

6. Elf Aquitaine (FR)
98.5 billion Euros

7. ENI (IT)
79.3 billion Euros

8. Glencore International (Switz)
77.1 billion Euros

9. Carrefour (FR)
75.8 billion Euros

10. Hewlett-Packard (Neth)
66.6 billion Euros

Other familiar entries on the list include Deutsche Telekom, Peugeot, Nestle, Statoil and BASF.

"As a new company, XooxleAnswers is pleased to make these results available at no charge as a way of demonstrating the diversity of our research work," said Sarokin.

About XooxleAnswers: XooxleAnswers (say 'zooks-il answers') is a professional research service headed by David Sarokin, a well-known expert on internet research resources, and a former researcher with Google Answers. XooxleAnswers, headquartered in Washington DC, handles a broad array of research tasks, with special emphasis on business and legal research, academics, family history, and document retrieval.

Contact:

David Sarokin
david@xooxleanswers.com
http://xooxleanswers.com

Europe's Top 250 Companies List: http://xooxleanswers.com/euro.aspx