World's Most Admired Companies

Regional winners

For the 50 most admired companies overall, respondents in the region were asked to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry.

Rank	Company
1	Toyota Motor
2	Canon
3	Samsung Electronics
4	Sony
5	Honda Motor
6	Singapore Airlines
7	Panasonic
8	Huawei Technologies
9	China Mobile Communications
10	LG Electronics
11	Cathay Pacific Airways
12*	BHP Billiton
12*	Lenovo Group
14	Hyundai Motor
15	POSCO
16	Komatsu
17	Tata Steel
18	Bridgestone
19	Sharp
20	Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
21	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
22	Softbank
23	Fujitsu
24	Ajinomoto
25*	Baosteel Group
25*	Kirin Holdings
25*	Mitsubishi Electric
25*	Toshiba
29*	China Telecommunications
29*	Mitsubishi Chemical
31*	All Nippon Airways
31*	Tokio Marine Holdings
33*	Nippon Steel
33*	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
35*	Hyundai Heavy Industries
35*	Nissan Motor
37*	Acer
37*	Cathay Life Insurance
37*	China Minmetals
37*	Hitachi
41*	Asahi Breweries (Asahi Group Holdings)
41*	China National Petroleum Corp.
41*	Flextronics International
41*	Hon Hai Precision Industry
41*	Kao
41*	KDDI
47	Denso
48*	Japan Tobacco
48*	Koç Holding
48*	NEC
48*	Nippon Telegraph & Telephone
48*	Petronas
48*	Sumitomo Chemical

From the March 19, 2012 issue

* A tie in the rankings.

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