There are 14 companies in Russia that have more than 5000 followers in LinkedIn. Lukoil is number 1 having more than 24 000 followers. Lukoil is followed by Yandex and Kaspersky Lab.

Number of Employees

4 out of 5 (79%) of the most followed companies employ more than 1000 persons. 14% employ less than 200 employees. 2 companies with a relatively small number of employees (less than 200) are Awara Direct Search and Antal Russia, both operating in human resource / recruiting industry.

Industries

Slightly less than one third operate in the Oil & Gas industry (29%) and the same amount in the Human Resources / Recruiting industry (29%). About one fifth (21%) operate in the Banking / Investment Banking industry.

Importance of LinkedIn

What makes this so important is that LinkedIn is the most used social media tool by top companies according to eMarketer.

This information is based on LinkedIn advanced company search filtering. Companies based in Russia with more than 5000 followers have been considered in this analysis. Analysis and graphs were prepared by Samuli Pesu. The graph on social media tools used by Inc. 500 Companies 2011 – 2013 is by eMarketer.