The foreign assets of the 19 companies ranked in table 1 below totaled about US$ 97 billion in 2008. Their overseas sales were about US$ 58 billion and the number of their employees abroad was around 190,000.\ud
The company in first place, Cemex, is ranked 45th among the 100 largest non-financial MNEs in the world that UNCTAD‘s World Investment Report presented in its 2009 edition. In this same report, in addition to CEMEX, another four Mexican companies appear among the 100 largest non-financial MNEs of developing countries...\ud
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In 2009, the 20 companies listed in table 1 below posted about US$ 117 billion in foreign assets, 63 billion in foreign sales, and had 227,484 employees in their overseas operations. The top three companies on the list are CEMEX, America Movil, and Carso Global Telecom, which together controlled US$ 86 billion in foreign assets, which was 73% of the total on the list. The leading sectors on the list are food and beverages (4 firms), non-metallic minerals (4 firms), and telecommunications (2 firms)