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Leading Foreign Multinational Companies in the Country (Canada) c. 1983
This ranking of the top 25 multinational companies in Canada in the early 1980s was taken from the following source: IRM Directory of Statistics of International Investment and Production, John Dunning & John Cantwell. HG 4538. D823, 1987. The table is found on p.248. (IRM stands for the Institute for Research and Information on Multinationals). Similar data are found for other countries.
This ranking of the top 25 multinational companies in Canada in the early 1980s was taken from the following source: IRM Directory of Statistics of International Investment and Production, John Dunning & John Cantwell. HG 4538. D823, 1987. The table is found on p.248. (IRM stands for the Institute for Research and Information on Multinationals). Similar data are found for other countries.
| Rank | Company | Sector | Canadian Turover (C $ Th) |
| 1 | General Motors |
Motor Vehicles & Parts
|
13,805,450 |
| 2 | Imperial Oil Ltd. | Petroleum | 8,919,000 |
| 3 | Ford Motor Co. of Canada | Motor Vehicles & Parts | 8,580,600 |
| 4 | Texaco Canada Ltd. | Petroleum | 5,652,000 |
| 5 | Shell Canada Ltd. | Petroleum | 5,3000,000 |
| 6 | Gulf Canada Ltd. | Petroleum | 5,078,000 |
| 7 | Chrysler Canada Ltd. | Motor Vehicles | 4,325,500 |
| 8 | Canada Safeway Ltd. | Retailing | 3,437,683 |
| 9 | Simpsons Sears Ltd. | Retailing | 3,314,683 |
| 10 | IBM Canada Ltd. | Computers | 2,462,000 |
| 11 | FW Woolworth Co. | Retailing | 1,738,820 |
| 12 | Mitsui & Co. Canada | Retailing | 1,663,932 |
| 13 | Alberta & Southern Gas Co. | Natural Gas | 1,605,678 |
| 14 | Amoco Canada Petroleum | Petroleum & Chemicals | 1,501,040 |
| 15 | Suncor Inc. | Petroleum, Gas & Chemicals | 1,473,800 |
| 16 | Anglo-Canadian Telephone Co. | Telecommunications | 1,462,797 |
| 17 | Canadian General Electric Co. | Electrical Engineering | 1,462,797 |
| 18 | Mobil Oil Canada Ltd. | Petroleum | 1,392,800 |
| 19 | Mitsubishi Canada Ltd. | Retailing | 1,233,321 |
| 20 | Dow Chemical Canada Ltd. | Chemicals | 1,228,069 |
| 21 | Ultramar Canada Inc. | Petroleum | 1,175,838 |
| 22 | Du Pont Canada Inc. | Chemicals | 1,116,444 |
| 23 | CIL Inc. | Chemicals | 1,113,772 |
| 24 | Cargill Grain Co. | Food Products | 1,111,960 |
| 25 | K-Mart Canada Ltd. | Retailing | 1,001,979 |
