January 26, 1997
TO: Nicholas Johnson
FROM: Sarah Thier
RE: 20 Corporations in Asia
Here is my list of the 20 (or so) largest corporations in the telecommunications, mass media, etc. fields. In compiling the list, I first went to the Value Line, and used their categories as a starting point. Next, I went to Fortune 500, and looked at where corporations were ranked by industry. The Fortune 500 list comes out every April, so that information was from 1996. Finally, I went to the Hoover's Handbook and compared what I had found from the other sources with what was there in order to make the final lists. The corporations are listed in random order.
Computer and Peripherals Industry
Apple
Compaq
Digital Equipment
IBM
H-P
Seagate Technologies
Computer Software and Services
AOL
Compuserve
Microsoft
Electronics/Electronics Equipment
Motorola
GE
Intel
Texas Instruments (possibly)
AMP (possibly)
Entertainment
Disney
Time Warner
Viacom
Foreign Electronics/Entertainment
Canon
Hitachi
NEC
Sony
Matsushita
Foreign Telecommunications Industry
British Telecom (MCI)
Reuters (possibly)
Deutche Telecom
Newspaper
News Corporation
Telecommunications Services
AT & T
US West
Bell South (possibly)