CIAO DATE: 04/2010
March 2010
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
The third annual survey of Israeli multinational enterprises (MNEs) is being released today. It was conducted by a joint team composed of the Manufacturers Association of Israel, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University, and the Vale-Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC), a joint undertaking of the Columbia Law School and The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. The survey is part of a long-term, multi-country study of the rapid global expansion of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging markets. The results released today cover the year 2008. In 2008, Israel's top 25 MNEs – ranked by their foreign assets – had over USD 18 billion in foreign assets (table 1), about USD 40 billion in foreign sales (including exports), and employed nearly 93,000 persons abroad. Five firms: Israel Corporation, Elco Holdings, Teva, Amdocs and Ormat together accounted for threequarters of the total foreign assets of the top 25.
Resource link: Israel's leading multinationals continue to expand domestically and abroad despite the crisis [PDF] - 417K