Biggest Companies in Canada
updated 2012 May 9

So, Who is big business in Canada? - Do you really know the company names?
If you wanted to get a good job in "international business" in Canada, do you know the playaz ?

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2010

 
UPDATE 
2009
student Ashok S. in MGTC44 in Jan 2010 kindly sent this email with an update.

Ashok says
I found a more up-to-date version (FP500 for 2008)of the top companies in Canada on the Financial Post Magazine website. (http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/fp500/list.html ). In comparison from the previous chart I found that a lot of oil companies have gone up in ranking and some of the banks have fallen in ranking. Most probably due to the increase in worldwide crude all prices in 2008 and the fall of the american banks (Lehman Brothers) due to thier encunters with the sub prime mortgages last year. A company that i wasn't aware of prior who did well in the period was Power Corporation of Canada. On first note I thought it was an energy company just like Toronto hydro or OPEG. However they deal with media, pulp, paper and financial services which includes the resource advantages that Canada has. I found all this very interesting.

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2008
http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/fp500/list.html

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2007

Canada's Largest Corporations: FP500 for 2007
taken from  http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/fp500/charts/data1.html on Sept 5th 2007
Ranking
Revenue
Profit
2006 2005 Company Amount 2006 $000s Amount 2006 $000s
1 4 Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto 36,045,000 4,728,000
2 2 Manulife Financial Corp., Toronto 34,194,000 3,970,000
3 1 General Motors of Canada Ltd., Oshawa. 33,340,112 n.a.
4 3 George Weston Ltd., Toronto 32,167,000 121,000
5 7 Power Corp. of Canada, Montreal 30,304,000 1,393,000
6 6 Magna International Inc., Aurora, Ont. 27,420,120 598,752
7 8 Alcan Inc., Montreal 26,808,894 2,029,860
8 5 Imperial Oil Ltd., Calgary 24,505,000 3,044,000
9 9 Sun Life Financial Inc., Toronto 24,287,000 2,144,000
10 14 The Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax 22,482,000 3,579,000
11 13 The Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto 22,302,000 4,603,000
12 10 DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. 20,534,000 n.a.
13 12 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,  20,166,000 2,646,000
14 16 Petro-Canada, Calgary 18,911,000 1,740,000
15 18 Onex Corp., Toronto 18,620,000 1,002,000
16 17 EnCana Corp., Calgary 18,596,466 6,409,368
17 19 Bank of Montreal, Montreal 18,153,000 2,663,000
18 11 BCE Inc., Montreal 17,713,000 2,007,000
19 15 Bombardier Inc., Montreal 16,830,976 304,448
20 20 Shell Canada Ltd., Calgary 14,651,000 1,738,000
21 33 Suncor Energy Inc., Calgary 14,342,000 2,971,000
22 22 Wal-Mart Canada Corp.,  14,300,000 n.a.
23 21 Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Ltd.,  13,809,000 n.a.
24 25 Empire Co. Ltd., Stellarton, N.S. 13,161,100 296,800
25 26 The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. 13,093,142 121,965
26 24 Nortel Networks Corp., Toronto 12,948,012 31,752
27 29 Husky Energy Inc., Calgary 12,664,000 2,726,000
28 23 Honda Canada Inc., Toronto  12,600,000 n.a.
29 30 Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., Laval, Que. 12,056,715 232,889
30 32 Novelis Inc., Atlanta, Ga. 11,168,766 -311,850
31 27 Hydro-Québec, Montreal 11,161,000 3,741,000
32 51 Metro Inc., Montreal  10,944,000 253,000
33 35 ACE Aviation Holdings Inc., Montreal 10,657,000 408,000
34 39 Enbridge Inc., Calgary 10,644,500 622,300
35 38 Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.,  10,398,000 2,524,000
36 34 Falconbridge Ltd., Toronto  9,867,228 1,055,992
37 31 Quebecor Inc., Montreal 9,822,100 -93,900
38 37 Mouvement des caisses Desjardins,  9,398,000 988,000
39 41 Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd., Ont.  9,049,005 n.a.
40 44 Rogers Communications Inc., Toronto 8,838,000 622,000

Most student will know the American company names of the big players in international business because you have been living in North America. The purpose in having you look through lists on Top 500 websites is to see the names of some of the big European and Asian companies - they are important players too and also influence your business, or may even be your employer .

What can we infer from knowing the number of Cdn companies on the Fortune Global 500?

You can see the position changes of some of the well known company names - might help you deciding which ones to send your resume to when you finish 4th year - or it may indicate which sectors are hot and which are fading. For example Walmart, a service company, has moved ahead of Exxon and GM, manufacturing companies (from 2000 - 2002), but then in 2003 fell behind Exxon.
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Who made the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2000
130 - Nortel Networks
322 - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
327 - Royal Bank of Canada
337 - George Weston (Loblaws)
344 - Seagram (alcohol)
387 - Toronto-Dominion Bank
410 - Bank of Montreal
466 - Power Corp. of Canada
482 - Canadian Pacific
491-  Magna International 
Who made the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2002
263 - Nortel Networks
299 - Royal Bank of Canada
318 - George Weston (Loblaws)
339 - BCE - Bell Canada Entreprises
360 - Bombardier
361 - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
366 - Bank of Nova Scotia
370 - Toronto-Dominion Bank
408 - Alcan
432 - Power Corporation
435 - TransCanada Pipelines
449 - Bank of Montreal
456 -  Magna International
465 - Sun Life Financial Services
483 - Manulife Financial Corporation


not in the 500 for 2002 - Canadian Pacific
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Who made the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2003
240 - George Weston (Loblaws)
303 - Royal Bank of Canada
310 - Bombardier
328 -  Magna International
337 - Sun Life Financial Services
388 - BCE - Bell Canada Entreprises
404 - Alcan
458 - Manulife Financial Corporation
459 - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
487 - Power Corporation
500 - Toronto-Dominion Bank
Who makes the Fortune Global 500 from Canada in 2008 ?
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Globe & Mail's top companies in Canada by profit (2004)
 
 
Rank Company and Year-End Profit Revenue
2004 2003 $000 % Ch’ge $000 Rank % Ch’ge
1 1 EnCana Corp 3,513,000 38 12,241,000 21 10
2 3 Bank of Nova Scotia 2,931,000 18 16,497,000 19 -4
3 2 Royal Bank of Canada 2,817,000 -6 25,204,000 6 2
4 11 Manulife Financial 2,564,000 66 27,265,000 3 65
5 7 Bank of Montreal 2,351,000 29 13,208,000 23 0
6 19 Toronto-Dominion Bank 2,310,000 115 16,015,000 20 2
7 5 Cdn. Imp. Bank of Commerce 2,199,000 7 16,705,000 17 -2
8 9 Imperial Oil 2,033,000 21 21,206,000 11 18
9 nr Manufacturers Life Insurance 2,015,000 23 19,991,000 13 3
10 10 Petro-Canada 1,757,000 6 14,442,000 22 10

 
Clearly the banks and the oil companies appear to be the big players in the Canadian economy
Both kinds of companies (operating in a monopolistic environment) are, in a sense, companies which make money off of other companies.

The phrase "economic pimps" was used by one student and he dared me to use it on the web site.



The reason we discuss these big companies, in the first class, is because this list gives some indication of just how big, or small we are in the total world community of international business - which may help us appreciate the competitiveness of our various industries and companies within those sectors. It is also interesting to look at how some Canadian companies rose, or fell as a consequence of the influencing environments (competition, technology, economics, social-cultural etc.)
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