The Guiness Book of Business Records

This international exploration of the business world reveals the entrepreneurs and their enterprises, the fortunes and the losses, the most ambitious schemes and scams, the robber barons and the philanthropic 'princes'. The Guinness Book of Business Records also gives an overview of business today, ranking the largest, the most profitable, the least profitable and the fastest-growing national and international companies in a variety categories.

From Croesus to Perot, from organized labour to cartels, the world of wealth and business is chronicled. Whether you are intrigued by technological innovation or inherited wealth, by the fortunes made by Middle Eastern oil or the spread of stock exchanges in the former Communist bloc, or by the complexities of international capital today, you will find this book — brimful with facts, stories, statistics, charts, personalities and histories — irresistable.

1. The biggest companies
2. The first businesses
3. Inventions and iinovations
4. Wealth
5. The workers
6. Markets, competition and conflict
7. Risk and exploitation
8. The key sectors
9. Looking forward, looking back

Meaningless, but funny.