Today, Fortune revealed its 31st annual list of the World’s Most Admired Companies.
On this year’s list, Fortune Executive Editor Stephanie Mehta writes: “Atop our annual ranking: innovators, disrupters, and companies that overcome adversity… The most successful companies have a way of restoring their reputations after a disastrous experience—in fact, the way they deal with problems can actually enhance a company’s standing. (Admired Company stalwarts Coke, Nike, Johnson & Johnson, and Toyota all bounced back from corporate crises.) Perhaps not surprisingly, many top companies view social media as a friend, not a foe, in their reputation efforts. Hay Group, Fortune’s partner in producing the World’s Most Admired Companies rankings, found that 50% of more than 800 surveyed executives think technology and social tools have strengthened the control they have over their corporations’ reputations. That fluency with social media may also help explain why Facebook, the youngest All-Star, jumps 10 spots this year to No. 38.”
Erika Fry writes of #1 Apple Inc: The iconic tech company known for the iPhone and other stylish and user-friendly products is back in the top spot on this year’s list, for the seventh year in a row. Apple, the most valuable brand on the planet according to Interbrand, brought in $171 billion in revenues in FY2013 and is flush with cash, but fan boys and girls (not to mention the market) are getting antsy to see its next big product. Bets are on a smartwatch or AppleTV [sic], but the company is also reportedly turning its attention to cars and medical devices.
Fortune’s Top 10 Most Admired Companies 2014:
1. Apple
2. Amazon.com
3. Google
4. Berkshire Hathaway
5. Starbucks
6. Coca-Cola
7. Walt Disney
8. FedEx
9. Southwest Airlines
10. General Electric
See the 2014 World’s Most Admired Companies here.
I am Apple fanboy, I like Apple products, Apple products are great, therefore I bought AAPL but the media, analysts keep pounding Apple endlessly which make my heart wrenching and frustrated.
Hard to do but don’t let your emotions get involved. Cream rises although AAPL is very slow cream since there’s too many analyst milking the cow.
Patience my friend iCry
FUD FUD FUD, ever marching on in the service of propaganda.
Hmm…interesting…don’t see Samdung in that top 10.
samdung is in its own category – Worlds biggest copycat company!
I hope to see Tesla on that list one day soon.
Berkshire Hathaway? All the others, sure, okay… Somehow I doubt a stroll through downtown asking folks about any of those companies you’d get more than a few “Who?” reactions when mentioning Berkshire Hathaway.
I’m personally flummoxed to see General Electric on the list. For WHAT exactly?! For those three fluorescent lamp bulbs I bought from them, each of which DIED within 5 weeks, not 5 years? To hell with GE. Someone’s getting suckered. Not me anymore.
you had better buy up all the incandescent (old style) light bulbs you can, our beloved Federal government has outlawed their manufacture.
Actually, I’ve moved over to metal halide bulbs. I don’t enjoy spreading fluorescent bulb mercury all over the planet. I do enjoy having full spectrum light sources that don’t poison life on Earth.
you mean I’ve been poisoning life on earth all these years with my coloring book and New York Yankees Official Desk Lamp?
my condolences to Mr and Mrs Grasshopper and all the little hoppers…I had no idea that my late night coloring was destroying your family.
Call your doctor immediately.
(For those interested: Most mercury fluorescent light bulbs are NOT taken to a recycling center. Instead, they end up in the landfill, broken, leaching mercury into the ground water. And you thought Green Peace had your back.)
I called him, then I told him I wanted a second opinion…
“Okay, you’re ugly too!”
yay! thank you.
The long coattails of Steve Jobs still drag the once great company onto the top of the list. When reality sets in that Apple is now like all the others, it could fall off this list altogether. iCal this.