For the fourth year in a row, Apple is crowned again as the most admired company in the world. The great brand led by Steve Jobs is still the envy of all and it is not for less. Their products are on everyone’s lips generating great expectation, and revolutionizing the market with each new innovation or novelty.
After Apple, the giant of the network, Google, is positioned in the second position of this ranking of companies prepared by the American magazine Fortune.
Technology companies continue to lead the head of this ranking of the ‘most admired’, with a top ten where in this occasion the electronic commerce company Amazon, occupying the fifth place, and Microsoft in the eleventh behind Coca-Cola that occupies the top 10 of this ranking where a total of 346 companies have been classified.
The only foreign companies that are part of this index are Toyota Motors (Japan, ranked 7), BMW (Germany, 22), Singapore Airlines (Singapore, 27), Nestlé (Switzerland, 34), Honda Motor (Japan, 36), Sony (Japan, 38), Nokia (Finland, 41), Samsung Electronics (South Korea, 42), L’Oréal (France, 44) and Volkswagen (Germany, 50).
Ranking of the 50 most admired companies
1.- Apple (USA)
2.- Google (USA)
3.- Berkshire Hathaway (USA)
4.- Johnson & Johnson (USA)
5.- Amazon.com (USA)
6.- Procter & Gamble (USA)
7 .- Toyota Motor (Japan)
8.- Goldman Sachs Group (USA)
9.- Wal-Mart Stores (USA)
10.- Coca-Cola (USA)
11.- Microsoft (USA)
12.- Southwest Airlines (USA)
13.- FedEx (USA)
14.- McDonald’s (USA)
15.- IBM (USA)
16.- General Electric (USA)
17.- 3M (USA)
18.- JP Morgan Chase (USA)
19.- Walt Disney (USA)
20.- Cisco Systems (USA)
21.- Costco Wholesale (USA)
22.- BMW (Germany)
22.- Target (USA)
24.- Nike (USA)
25.- PepsiCo (USA)
26.- Starbucks (USA)
27.- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
28.- Exxon Mobil (USA)
29.- American Express (USA)
30.- Nordstrom (USA)
31.- Intel ( USA)
32.- Hewlett-Packard (USA)
33.- UPS (USA)
34.- Nestlé (Switzerland)
35.- Caterpillar (USA)
36.- Honda Motor (Japan)
37.- Best Buy (USA)
38. – Sony (Japan)
39.- Wells Fargo (USA)
40.- eBay (USA)
41.- Nokia (Finland)
42.- Samsung Electronics (South Korea)
43.- Deere (USA)
44.- L’Oréal (France)
45.- AT & T (USA)
46.- Lowe’s (USA)
47.- General Mills (USA)
48.- Marriott International (USA)
49.- DuPont (USA)
50.- Volkswagen (Germany)