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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Fortune 500
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Date: 10 Apr 90 06:26:06 GMT
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	I remember someone saying to me something like, "so why
isn't Commodore in the Fortune 500." I thought about that for a
while, but I didn't know. Today I just perused the Fortune 500
list for 1989 and Commodore was not on it, despite sales of well
above the 500th company. The reason is as follows:
	Commodore is not set up like most multinational
companies. Each country has its own "Commodore" which is 100%
independent of the U.S. "Commodore." I am guessing that, as such,
as this list is only for the top 500 U.S. companies, they only
included sales in the U.S. If world-wide sales for Commodore were
considered, Commodore would rank about 360th.
	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

"If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'"
		-- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else