The magazine Fortune was founded by Time Magazine co-founder Henry Luce in 1930 at the outset of the Great Depression. It was considered America's first business journal.

Fortune is now part of the media conglomerate Time Warner.

Fortune publishes three influential lists of companies:

• Fortune 500
• Fortune 1000
• Fortune Global 500 - ranking of the top 500 companies globally, along with information about them.

as well as an annual list of the wealthiest individuals and families in the world.

External links

• Fortune website (http://www.fortune.com/fortune/)
• A history of Fortune (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/PRINT/fortune/background.html)
• IMNO Interviews Dave Bateman Winner of the 2004 Fortune Magazine Business Plan Competition (http://www.imno.org/articles.asp?qid=162&sid=18)