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U.S.	153
Japan	64
France	39

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U.S. Postal Service	785,929
Sinopec	634,011
Hon Hai Precision Industry	550,000

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Exxon Mobil	$40,610
Royal Dutch Shell	$31,331
General Electric	$22,208

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15. AXA

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Rank: 15 (Previous rank: 15)
CEO: Henri de Castries
Employees: 103,534
Address: 25 Ave. Matignon
Paris 75008
Country: France
Website: www.axa.com

The leading European insurance company continued to see double-digit growth last year. Revenue climbed 6.5% to $162.8 billion, and profit rose 21.6% to $7.76 billion. AXA already has beachheads in mature domestic and European markets; now it is expanding through acquisitions in Britain, Italy, South Korea and the Ukraine.

	$ millions	% change from 2006
Revenues	162,762.3	16.5
Profits	7,755.4	21.6
Assets	1,056,963.4	—
Stockholders' equity	66,731.4	—

Profits as % of
Revenues	5
Assets	1

Industry: Insurance: Life, Health (stock)

Rank	Company	Global 500 rank	Revenues ($ millions)
1	AXA	15	162,762.3
2	Assicurazioni Generali	34	113,812.6
3	Aviva	69	81,317.0


4	Prudential	94	66,358.0
5	Aegon	103	62,382.7
6	CNP Assurances	112	59,071.4
7	MetLife	129	53,150.0
8	China Life Insurance	159	43,439.6
9	Legal & General Group	202	36,416.1
10	Prudential Financial	221	34,401.0
11	Old Mutual	225	33,917.3
12	Manulife Financial	230	33,089.6
13	Samsung Life Insurance	247	30,905.4
14	Power Corp. of Canada	271	29,089.0
15	Cathay Financial Holdings	300	26,811.4
16	T&D Holdings	415	20,403.2
17	Standard Life	419	20,232.7
18	Sun Life Financial	433	19,731.0
19	Swiss Life	442	19,131.6

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