Regatta

The last weekend of July was dedicated to Regatta. This time it was the 20th edition of Cranfield Regatta, with schools like LBS, Insead, Manchester participating. Insead was the winner this time, and Cranfield came second.

Ours was one of the 20+ boats that Cranfield had and we fared very badly, perhaps ranked 30 out of the total 37.

But it was pure fun, and a lot of work.

 

Sailing is fun !

Worlds biggest companies

Here is a list of worlds biggest companies in terms of revenues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue

Walmart leads the chart with more than 400 billion in revenues. Quite astonishing. Some more personal observations and trite remarks:

1. None of them have yet reached 1 trillion USD. Why not a single of them, is it too huge ? Considering that GDP of India is 1.5 trillion (USD), it looks a big number, isn't it.

2. Largest Indian company, IOCL is 139th in the list with 54 billion, and then Reliance at 180. Quite a lot of catching up to do for Indian companies to be somewhere in top 10. China is already there - with 2 companies in top 10.

3. How is Walmart at the top ? How can a retail company generate more revenues than oil and gas ? Difficult to imagine. But then the scale and geographies in which Walmart operates is bigger than any other company. Also it proves how much the Americans consume !