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Biggest US companies by revenue in 1999

Each company’s revenue in its 1999 fiscal year as Fortune ranked them in 2000, with private firms like Cargill left out.

Source Fortune via cnn.com, as of 31 December 1999 · revenue in fiscal 1999 (USD)

the FORTUNE 500 of 2000 (fiscal-1999 revenue), from Fortune's archive on CNNMoney; company names as the archive prints them

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The top 10

RankEntryrevenue in fiscal 1999 (USD)
#1General Motors189,058,000,000
#2Wal-Mart Stores166,809,000,000
#3Exxon Mobil163,881,000,000
#4Ford Motor162,558,000,000
#5General Electric111,630,000,000
#6IBM87,548,000,000
#7Citigroup82,005,000,000
#8AT&T62,391,000,000
#9Altria Group61,751,000,000
#10Boeing57,993,000,000

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