The Forbes Global 2000 List is a well-known annual must-read in business. This year for the first time Forbes teamed up with Statista to take the project one step further, identifying the 500 World’s Best Employers and the 250 Top Regarded Companies around the globe.

Top 500 World’s Best Employers: In an effort to detail the Forbes Global 2000, a colossal undertaking published annually to present the world’s biggest public companies, Statista and Forbes developed a new approach to identify the top 500 international employers. To create the list, Statista analyzed more than 360,000 global recommendations for a company as an employer.

Recommendations were collected using both macro global polling methods in addition to regionally-based surveying. To evaluate the companies as a top employer, employees were asked to rate their own employer (internal perception) as well as to recommend other employers in industries they are familiar with (public perception). The 500 companies receiving the highest total scores were awarded with the World's Best Employers title (full article and ranking here).

Top 250 Regarded Companies: To find out which are the world’s Top Regarded companies, 15,000 respondents from 60 countries provided their opinions on the Global 2000 list using global polling methods hosted by an online access panel. The 250 companies receiving the highest total scores were named the Top Regarded Companies. The evaluation of a company’s reputation is based on the dimensions “Trustworthiness / Honesty”, “Social Conduct”, “Company as an Employer” and “Performance of the Product/Services” (full article and ranking here).

Along with the World’s Best Employers and the Top Regarded Companies the Statista analysis also unveils the Top 250 Multinational Performers -  a list that shows the companies that generated the highest percentage of revenue outside their domestic market. In addition, Forbes and Statista bring you the Top 250 Growth champions, a ranking of the companies that achieved the highest compound annual growth rate in revenues between 2013 and 2016. 

For more information on the labels and the methodology also visit Statista.com for the World’s Best Employers, The Global 2000 Top Regarded Companies, the Global 2000 Top Multinational Performers and the Global 2000 Growth Champions.