Apple received the top score in all nine categories of innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness (was never going to be too much doubt about that one), long-term investment value, quality of products and global competitiveness …
Fortune compiles the definitive list by polling 4,104 executives, directors and securities analysts, asking them to select the 10 companies they admired most. The full top-ten list was:
Apple regularly tops similar lists, named last year by Forbes as the world’s most valuable brand, and by Barron’s as the world’s most respected company. Perhaps most impressively, for a company which chases profitability rather than market share, Apple was declared joint-winner in the market share stakes for Q4 last year.
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