Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
07 Sep 2005 06:07 PDT
Hi chuckler,
I can provide you with the following:
The 2004 DS100 which is based on the following criteria:
Only OIC country based, domestic (majority owned) businesses included
Subsidiaries of Foreign Companies not included
Top 100 Ranked by revenue in US$ for Fiscal Year 2003 (Unless noted otherwise)
For Banks- Interest and Non-Interest revenue; For Insurance Companies-
Premium, annuity Income, Investment income, gains and losses, excludes
deposits
In addition to the Publicly listed Companies, Private and Government
held entities are also included
To truly reflect top businesses in the region, it was important to
include Private and Government entities. It is recognized that this
would leave open the possibility of many companies not included due to
non-availibility of public data. Dinar Standard has made extensive
attempts to make this list comprehensive. However, we recognize that
we may have either missed some companies or the data was simply not
available due to company policies not to diclose financial data. DS100
will reflect any updates in the Corrections section.
Holding Companies were included (For Holding Companies included, their
subsidiaries were not included)
Central Banks not included
Sources:
For publicly listed companies Annual Reports or data posted by the
Public markets were used. In other cases, various publicly available
sources were used. These include sources such as Arab News,
Hoovers.com, Forbes Magazine, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Dow Jones
News Wires, Payvand, Privatization Commisions, Chambers of Commerce,
and Organizations such as OPEC. In addition many of the companies were
contacted directly to verify the data.
Alternatively, I can provide you with the Top 100 Companies in the
Arab World for 2004.
Waiting to hear your views.
Best regards,
Rainbow
