U.S. Companies are Extremely Successful Globally...Are You?
- More than half of GE’s 2007 revenue was from outside the United States. Global revenue growth for 2007 was 22%.
- ExxonMobile earned 75% of their revenue outside the United States in 2007.
- Wal-Mart conducted 41% of their business internationally in 2008.
- IBM generated 37% of its revenue outside the United States.
- Out of the 9 million cars that were sold by GM in 2007, 59% were sold outside the U.S.
- Last year, Coca-Cola generated 67% of their income internationally.
- Proctor and Gamble sold 60% of their total revenue overseas in 2008.
- In 2007, 47% of Johnson and Johnson’s total revenue came from outside the U.S.
- Approximately 40% of Parker Hannifin net sales are international.
- Colgate-Palmolive recorded an all time high of 12.5% among worldwide sales. Approximately, 80% of Colgate-Palmolive net sales is recorded outside the U.S.