{"id":117942,"date":"2016-03-24T23:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=117942"},"modified":"2016-03-24T23:56:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:56:37","slug":"the-richest-fictional-companies-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/117942\/the-richest-fictional-companies-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The richest fictional companies in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK company has published an infographic showing the richest fictional companies based on popular culture, literature and other media.<\/p>\n<p>UK Businesses For Sale, which supports small businesses, calculated the value of companies including ACME&#8217;s Looney Tunes, Wayne Enterprises from Batman, and Stark Industries, from IronMan.<\/p>\n<p>The data was put into an infographic called \u201cThe World\u2019s Richest Companies That Don\u2019t Actually Exist,\u201d and shows the annual revenue of 14 companies.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the list is Choam from the book and subsequent movie Dune, which according to the infogrpahic, scored $1.7 trillion, while Acme pocketed $348.7 billion, and Sirius from Hitchhikers Guide earned $327.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc, meanwhile, generates revenue of $485.7 billion,<br \/>\nExxon Mobil Corporation is at $369.4 billion, and Apple&#8217;s revenue is at $182.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richest-companiest-e1458856559101.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117996\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richest-companiest-e1458856559101.jpg\" alt=\"richest-companiest\" width=\"600\" height=\"1383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The infographic was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/businesses-for-sale-admin.co.uk\/infographics\/worlds-richest-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\">UK Businesses For Sale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More on wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/115258\/11-luxury-items-millionaires-blow-their-money-on\/\">11 luxury items millionaires blow their money on<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/115078\/this-is-how-many-millionaires-live-in-south-africa\/\">This is how many millionaires live in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/110227\/9-facts-about-the-worlds-super-rich\/\">9 facts about the world\u2019s super rich<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK company has published an infographic showing the richest fictional companies based on popular culture, literature and other media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":112217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872,9880],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-117942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-wealth","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117994,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117942\/revisions\/117994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}