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March 12, 2008

Apple Tops List of Most Admired

Apple Computer has been noted as this year’s most admired company. Fortune magazine  [March 17, 2008] profiles CEO Steve Jobs, reporting that “what makes him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.” 

 

To create the top 20 and the overall list of most admired companies, Fortune survey partner, the Hay Group, asked 3,721 executives, directors, and securities analysts who had responded to industry surveys to select the 10 companies they admired most. They were asked to choose from a list made up of the companies that ranked in the top 25 percent in last year's survey, plus those that finished in the top 20 percent of their industry.

 

Anyone could vote for any company in any industry. The difference in the voting rolls is why some results can seem anomalous, for example, Johnson & Johnson is one of the top 10 most admired companies but only second in its own industry. In all, 622 companies in 65 industries were surveyed.

 

The top 20:

  1. Apple
  2. Berkshire Hathaway    
  3. General Electric
  4. Google
  5. Toyota Motor
  6. Starbucks
  7. FedEx
  8. Procter & Gamble
  9. Johnson & Johnson
  10. Goldman Sachs
  11. Target
  12. Southwest Airlines
  13. American Express
  14. BMW
  15. Costco Wholesale
  16. Microsoft
  17. United Parcel Service
  18. Cisco Systems
  19. 3M
  20. Nordstrom
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