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The 2008 DS100 summary report

Overall Growth Slows, but Manufacturing

Picks Up Strong

Turkey-based Koc Holding--a diversified electronics, automotive, energy, finance, and retail giant, is the largest publicly traded company on the list. It is followed by SABIC (#8, chemical), and Sime Darby (#22, diversified, Malaysia.).

While a majority of the companies on the DS100 are publicly traded, the bulk of the total revenue (69%) is

attributed to the 30 Government-owned companies on the list, signifying their powerful roles in the respective economies. This trend remained mostly the same from the year before, although there was a slight increase of 5% (65% last year) in the Government-owned companies’ revenue share of the DS100. Additionally, it should be noted that some of the 'Listed' companies still have majority Government ownership and are at different stages of privatization drives.

In regards to Privately held companies, the ranking this year has 16 private enterprises which has remained unchanged from last year. Data was available for these companies through public sources. Sabanci Group (Turkey) leads this list, followed by Saudi Oger (Saudi Arabia), and Dallah Albaraka Group (Saudi Arabia). Even though there is a small representation of Private Companies on the list, there are many for whom data was not available and hence were not included in this report*.

Reference notes:

1. Revenue figures are estimates based on 2007 crude oil production (OPEC data) only

2. Based on End of Fiscal Year 2006 or earliest available (EOY 2007 could not be obtained)

3. Groups major subsidiary is Listed

4. Owned by Zorlu Holding, Turkey (Zorlu Holdings' revenue could not be obtained)

5. Biggest revenue gain in Co. history due to sale of its holdings in Wataniya Telecom which was the largest private sector sale in the history of Kuwait, the biggest cross-border deal within the GCC and a record valuation in the telecoms industry.

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