
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 4, 1990                   TAG: 9004040149
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

FORTUNE, FORBES IN LISTING FAST-DRAW

Fortune and Forbes magazines on Tuesday unveiled dueling lists of America's corporate titans that agreed on one thing: General Motors Corp. is the nation's largest public company.

The Fortune 500 list ranked the nation's largest industrial firms by sales. Forbes measured them by sales, profits, assets and stock market value. It was the first time in recent memory that both lists were released the same day.

Behind GM, Fortune's top 10 were: Ford Motor Co., Exxon Corp., International Business Machines Corp., General Electric Co., Mobil Corp., Philip Morris Cos., Chrysler Corp., E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and Texaco Inc.

Rounding out the Forbes Super 50 top 10: GE, Exxon, IBM, Ford, Philip Morris, American Telephone & Telegraph Corp., Mobil, Du Pont and Sears, Roebuck and Co. - Associated Press

by CNB