Topic: The top 10 consumer products companies are...

Interesting report I saw from Deloitte today, listing the top 250 consumer products companies. I'm not going to list all 250, but the top 10 are:

1) Samsung ($134,528 million in sales, 11.2% growth)
2) Nestle ($105,492/ 2.0%)
3) Panasonic ($101,704/ 17.2%)
4) Procter & Gamble ($82,559/ 4.6%)
5) Sony ($73,761/ 0.2%)
6) Apple ($65,225/ 52%)
7) Unilever ($58,775/ 11.1%)
8) PepsiCo ($57,838/ 33.8%)
9) Nokia ($56,364/ 3.6%)
10) Kraft ($49,207/ 21.8%)

Obviously these are global numbers, and some companies (Panasonic, Nokia) have dominant presences in markets we often forget about (Japan and Africa respectively) that help bump up their numbers.

And some other interesting numbers:

The highest ranked beer company is Heineken at 28 ($21,424/ 9.7%)

Nintendo is 64th ($11,868/ -29.3%) and is actually the company that had the biggest net sales lost in the top 250

Namco Bandai was in at 151 ($4,612/ 4.1%)
Electronic Arts was in at 187 ($3,589/ -1.8%)
Konami was in at 214 ($3,018/ -1.6%)

Sapporo, the best beer in the world, was 212 ($3,082/ 2.0%)

This won't have every company in it - it's consumer products only and I suspect Microsoft isn't on the list, for instance, because it doesn't break out its consumer business from its corporate business. In other cases - Square Enix, for instance, it's most likely that Deloitte hasn't been privvy to the information.
Still, interesting to see, and this is Deloitte, so where there is is good quality data.

Go Sony!

I hadn't realised that Sony had actually grown in terms of net sales. It's a good sign - as bad as all its other economic indicators are, it still managed to sell more stuff.

Also, when just about every other publisher is struggling (especially Japanese publishers), Namco Bandai is doing freaking incredible.

I'm going to start a cheese/macaroni and cheese company! Anybody have any good cows?

I don't see how people can afford Apple products when everyone supposedly has no money.
Things might be different in the US though, although I don't think they are... Unless Banks are spending their Bail-Out money on Apple products...
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The iPhone is a legitimate work tool in corporates - if you don't have an iPhone, you'll have an Android smart phone or Blackberry. Either your work will supply one, or you'll buy one yourself and it'll be a tax writeoff because you use it for work.

The iPad is a touch harder to justify, though with the apps on it, it's easy to turn it into a work tool as well. I know a whole lot of corporates that use it for board meetings, presentations, virtual desktops etc etc.

At the end of the day these things help make people more productive, which means businesses are usually willing to invest in them.

Oh I see, that would explain Apple's sales figures as well.
I do love my iPhone even though my next phone is going to be an Android or an Ubuntu phone.

In Britain, there are plenty of tales of Council workers given free iPads to help with their work. From councillors right down to bin men!

Also, the BBC outfits some of their staff with iPads, so in that regard, the iPad does a lot of business in the professional sector.

Yeah, I don't think I've come across a single company in the past year or so that isn't looking for a way to roll out tablets to its workforce. And 90% of the time when they say "tablet" they specifically mean "iPad." More or less equal to Apple's market share in the space.

not even just that — there's a food chain that just came to town recently (these guys, actually), it was amusing to see that their registers are actually iPads. we here at job#2 run all our stuff off the shop iPad and our iPhones with the help of the iCloud. I actually made the choice to upgrade my lame old Samsung phone to an iPhone because I needed ready access to my own Square account. i think I heard PayPal has started offering a similar card-reading service for smartphones... these devices are more than just shiny tools for corporate board meetings and crap. they're putting the ability to take plastic and run entire businesses into the hands of the average joe.

At my school everyone in year 10 is given an iPad from the government to use for the rest of their school life. Apparently it's working so well they they're now giving iPads to the year 9 group next year.

I also know that many other private and public school have been given Macbooks and Macbook Pros.

I want an iPad.

For a moment there... I thought Tendoboy was back.

Yeah, about the only people who won't be using iPads in the not-too-distant future for work will be the miners and military types, because the iPad hardware isn't certified for difficult environments (such as a warzone or down the shaft of a mine).

Kinda scary, really. Apple stuff is hard for businesses to stop using once they start. There's a lot of lock-in involved.

I think my school gave me a pencil. Damn lucky bastards.

@The_Fox: my school didn't even give us that, lol
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@theblackdragon Haha! HAHA! Ha... Ha... your kidding right?

Come on TBD; you're not that old. Even my second grade teachers didn't do that,. and they were OLD.......

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