The Forbes 500s

"America's biggest companies fought their way through another nasty year. Our 35th annual 500s directory is a report card on how these big corporations performed in 2002. Among the bad news, aggregate profits of the 500 largest companies by sales were off 5%. This year only 802 companies made one or more of the lists (sales, profits, assets or market value) versus 824 a year ago." View the Special Report...