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Top Ten Companies By Net Sales

Sales is an important parameter while analysing a company. Growth in sales indicates better growth prospects of the company. Rather, the size of the company is gauged by the sales of the company. Here, we have provided a list of the top ten companies in India in terms of sales.

10. Tata Motors Ltd.


Tata Motors is India’s largest automobile company and is a leader in commercial vehicles. It is among the top three in terms of passenger vehicles. The company has also emerged as an international automobile company. Through its various subsidiaries and associate companies, it has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, Spain and South Africa. The company’s dealership, sales, services and spare parts network has a reach of around 3,500 points. Over 6.5 million Tata vehicles are on Indian roads, since the first rolled out in 1954.

9: Essar Oil Ltd.


Essar Oil, promoted by the Essar Group, is a fully integrated oil & gas company in India. It has a strong presence across the hydrocarbon value chain from exploration and production to refining and oil retail. It has onshore and offshore oil & gas blocks, which have reserves of about 2.1 billion barrels. Essar Oil has a crude refining capacity of 3,60,000 bpsd (barrels per stream-day). Besides, there are over 1,600 Essar-branded oil retail outlets in India. For the year FY12 Essar Oil posted revenues of Rs 63,340 crore.

8. NTPC Ltd



Formed in 1975, state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is the largest power generating company in the country. NTPC is a Maharatna company and a majority of the stake is owned by the Government of India. It has total installed capacity of 37,514 MW which includes 16 coal-based plants and seven gas-based plants. Besides, the company also has seven power plants under a joint venture. NTPC has set an ambitious target of total installed capacity of 1,28,000 MW by 2032. It has diversified operations in power generation, coal mining, power equipment manufacturing, power trading, etc. In the trailing four-quarters it had total income of Rs 65,893 crore while the net profit in the same period remained at Rs 9,812 crore.

7. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation



Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is India’s seventh-largest in terms of sales. Despite this the company commands a numero uno position as India’s largest company by net profits. ONGC’s activities deal with exploration, development and production of crude oil, natural gas, LPG and some other value added petroleum products. The company, along with its two subsidiaries ONGC Videsh and Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals and ten other JVs, contributes nearly 3/4th of the total crude production and 81 per cent of gas production in India. It has discovered six of the seven producing basins in India and added 6.4 billion tonnes of oil & gas reserves. For the trailing four quarters the company posted total sales of Rs 73,952 crore.


6. MMTC Ltd.



MMTC Limited (MMTC) is one of the two highest foreign exchange earners for India and a leading international trading company incorporated on September 26, 1963. The company has a ‘five star export house’ status and is engaged in the trading of minerals, precious metals, metals, coal & hydrocarbons, fertilisers and agro products. The major products that it trades and exports include iron ore, chrome, chrome ore, manganese ore, gold, silver and value-added products such as jewellery, medallions and silverware. The company also trades in metal and agro products such as pig iron, zinc, cotton, peas, pulses, sugar, etc. The group also trades agro products at commodity exchanges. The company is the sixth-largest company by sales of Rs 76,585 crore and 80 per cent of its revenue comes from the precious metal business and the rest from its other divisions. It has a vast international trade network, which includes a wholly-owned international subsidiary in Singapore and business with countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania and the Americas.

5. State Bank Of India


State Bank of India (SBI) is the largest bank in India. Of the total revenue of FY11, around 72 per cent of it has been derived from the standalone (banking) business while the rest comes from its subsidiaries. The revenue for the bank can be further classified broadly into three segments. These include the treasury segment (contributes around 18 per cent of the total revenue), corporate banking (37 per cent) and retail banking (45 per cent) as on December 31, 2012. SBI has a good stronghold and is a trendsetter in the banking industry.

4. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL)



Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), with a Navaratna status, is the fifth-largest company in terms of sales at Rs 1,65,961 crore (trailing four-quarter of sales). The company is one of the largest integrated oil refining and marketing companies in India. At present it enjoys a market share of 20 per cent and about 10 per cent of the nation’s refining capacity with two coastal refineries, one at Mumbai (West Coast) capacity of 6.5 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) and the other at Vishakhapatnam (East Coast) with a capacity of 8.3 MMTPA. The company also holds an equity stake of 16.95 per cent in Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), a state-of-the-art refinery at Mangalore with a capacity of 9 MMTPA. Moreover, it also owns one of the largest lube refineries with a capacity of 3,35,000 metric tonnes which amounts to 40 per cent of the national capacity of lube oil production.

3. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL)



Bharat Petroleum is one of the leading petroleum companies in the country. Nearly 55 per cent shares in the company are held by the Government of India. It has some of the very well recognised brands in its portfolio like Bharat Gas, Speed Petrol, MAK Lubricants, etc. It has refineries in areas like Mumbai and Kochi. Besides having own projects, it also has several other joint ventures with leading PSUs like GAIL, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC, etc. Last year the company made five oil and gas discoveries in countries like Mozambique, Brazil and Indonesia. This augurs well for the future of the company in terms of sustainable business.

2. Reliance Industries


Reliance Industries (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company in terms of sales. On a four-quarter trailing basis the diversified conglomerate has posted net sales of Rs 3,29,904 crore which stands next only to IOCL. The company operates mainly in three business segments i.e. petrochemicals, refining and oil & gas. As on March 31, 2012, the refining segment contributed 75 per cent of the total revenue, while the petrochemicals segment brought in 21 per cent of the total revenue and oil & gas exploration business chipped in with the remaining 4 per cent.

1. Indian Oil Corporation


Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) is India’s flagship national oil company with business interests straddling the entire hydrocarbon value chain - from refining, pipeline transportation and marketing of petroleum products to exploration and production of crude oil & gas, marketing of natural gas and petrochemicals. As per the data, on a four-quarter trailing basis IOC is India’s largest company in terms of sales at Rs 4,04,834 lakh crore. However, over the past year, despite clocking such robust sales numbers, the domestic oil refiner has faced some serious pressures on the bottomline front owing to an ad-hoc and uncertain subsidy regime prevailing in our country.

Top 10 companies in Terms of Sales

Company Name

Sales (Rs Crore)

Indian Oil Corp

404834

Reliance Inds.

329904

Bharat Petroleum

192560

Hind. Petrol

165961

SBI

99547

MMTC Ltd.

76585

ONGC

73952

NTPC

61969

Essar Oil Ltd.

54339

Tata Motors Ltd.

52790


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