Lithuania
Rank Name Headquarters Revenue ( bil . € ) Employees
0 1 ORLEN Lietuva , AB Mažeikiai 4.6 1,381
0 2 Maxima LT , UAB Vilnius 1.6 14,670
0 3 Girteka logistics , UAB Vilnius 0.764 740
0 4 Palink , UAB Vilnius 0.649 6,631
0 5 ESO , AB Vilnius 0.624 2,383
0 6 NEO Group , AB Klaipėda 0.541 223
0 7 Viada LT , UAB Vilnius 0.520 1,120
0 8 Sanitex , UAB Kaunas 0.500 1,299
0 9 Norfos mažmena , UAB Vilnius 0.469 3,284
0 10 Circle K Lietuva , UAB Vilnius 0.464 864
Economy -- Companies
Biggest companies in Lithuania in 2018 , by revenue : [ 236 ] Nasdaq Vilnius Stock Exchange , located in K29 business centre in Konstitucijos Avenue , Vilnius [ 237 ]
The first known record of the name of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuva) is in a 9 March 1009 story of Saint Bruno in the Quedlinburg Chronicle. The Chronicle recorded a Latinized form of the name Lietuva: Litua (pronounced [litua]). Due to the lack of reliable evidence, the true meaning of the name is unknown. Nowadays, scholars still debate the meaning of the word and there are a few plausible versions. Since Lietuva has a suffix (-uva), the original word should have no suffix. [citation needed] A likely candidate is Lietā. Because many Baltic ethnonyms originated from hydronyms, linguists have searched for its origin among local hydronyms. Usually, such names evolved through the following process: hydronym → toponym → ethnonym. Lietava, a small river not far from Kernavė, the core area of the early Lithuanian state and a possible first capital of the eventual Grand Duchy of Lithuania, is usually credited as the source of the name. However, the river is very small and some find it improbable that such a small and local object could have lent its name to an entire nation. On the other hand, such naming is not unprecedented in world history. Artūras Dubonis proposed another hypothesis, that Lietuva relates to the word leičiai (plural of leitis).