Control Suppliers in BusinessWeek’s Global 1,000 Report

By Staff November 1, 1999

Control Suppliers in BusinessWeek’s Global 1,000 Report

Company (location) Rank in home country May, 1999 global rank 1998 global rank Market value (in $ millions) 1997 sales (in $ millions)
Source: Control Engineering with data from BusinessWeek
Continuing acquisitions and mergers are making it hard to tell the control and automation players without a program. BusinessWeek’s recent Global 1000 report shows how these large companies compare to each other by ranking them according to market value at the end of May 1999. The 21 firms above include those in which industrial controls are either a significant part of their product lines or contain a division which commands a significant portion of the industrial controls market.
General Electric (U.S.) 2 2 1 333,050 100,469
Tyco International (U.S.) 35 52 117 71,329 12,311
Siemens (Germany) 5 109 97 38,879 62,756
Schlumberger (U.S.) 73 126 88 32,884 11,816
Allied Signal (U.S.) 77 132 165 32,090 15,128
CBS (U.S.) 84 153 173 28,821 6,805
Emerson (U.S.) 90 162 145 27,938 13,447
ABB (Sweden, Switzerland) 3, 9 177 126 25,785 61,744
Halliburton (U.S.) 146 271 332 18,213 17,353
Invensys (U.K.) 27 282 326 17,434 5,884
Honeywell (U.S.) 199 384 410 11,952 8,427
Rockwell International (U.S.) 223 445 399 10,508 6,752
Baker Hughes (U.S.) 231 458 687 10,211 6,312
Schneider Electric (France) 26 507 319 9,307 7,952
Dover Corp. (U.S.) 293 577 516 8,042 3,978
Mitsubishi Electric (Japan) 82 647 811 7,052 31,211
Eaton (U.S.) 346 707 658 6,254 6,625
Analog Devices (U.S.) 349 711 981 6,185 1,231
Johnson Controls (U.S.) 391 810 816 5,353 12,587
Parker-Hannifin (U.S.) 433 878 894 4,741 4,633
ITT Industries (U.S.) 456 921 98 N.A. 4,493