10 Most Transparent Companies in the World
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational metal and mining corporation headquartered in London and a management office in Melbourne, Australia. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto, in Huelva, Spain from the Spanish government. The company ranks 2nd globally and scores 7.2 out of 10 on transparency index. As of March 2009, Rio Tinto is the fourth-largest publicly listed mining company in the world with a market capitalization of approximately $134 billion, and was listed in Fortune magazine's 2008 Global 500 ranking of largest worldwide companies by revenue at number 263. In 2007, the company was valued at $147 billion.
