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Monday, 5th March 2007

Lists & Rankings: America's Most Admired Companies 2007; Apple, Google & Microsoft Make Top 20

The 2007 list of most admired American companies from Fortune magazine is now online. This is the 25th annual list.

Which companies have the best reputations? GE tops the list again this year, Starbucks and Toyota move up, and Apple cracks the top 10.

+ Profiles of the Top 20 Companies

To create the top 20 for our 25th annual rankings, Fortune and its survey partners at Hay Group asked 3,322 executives, directors, and securities analysts to select the 10 companies they admire most.

+ List: The Top 20
++ Methodology

The Top 10
1. General Electric
2. Starbucks
3. Toyota Motor
4. Berkshire Hathaway
5. Southwest Airlines
6. FedEx
7. Apple
8. Google
9. Johnson & Johnson
10. Procter & Gamble

Microsoft also makes the Top 20 at #12.

+ Full List (306 Companies, Based on 8 Metrics)
++ Sort List by:
++ Top 20
++ No. 1s (by Industry)
++ Best & Worst
++ Companies
++ States (Map also available)
++ Industries
++ Global

Overall Scores for Selected Companies:
+ IAC/InterActive, 8.23
+ Google, 7.95
+ Apple, 7.44
+ Yahoo, 6.77
+ Microsoft, 6.73

Rankings for Internet Services and Retailing Category
1) IAC/InterActive
2) Google
3) eBay
4) Yahoo

Methodologies: How We [Fortune] Pick the Most Admired Companies

Source: Fortune

Note: IAC/InterActive is the parent of Ask.com where Gary works as Director of Online Information Resources


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