World's Most Admired Companies 2007

Rank	Company	Country
2007 All-Stars For the 50 most admired companies overall, FORTUNE's survey asked businesspeople to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry.
1	General Electric	U.S.
2	Toyota Motor	Japan
3	Procter & Gamble	U.S.
4	Johnson & Johnson	U.S.
5	Apple¹	U.S.
6	Berkshire Hathaway	U.S.
7	FedEx	U.S.
8	Microsoft	U.S.
9	BMW	Germany
10	PepsiCo	U.S.
11	IBM	U.S.
12	Target	U.S.
13	Wal-Mart Stores	U.S.
14	United Parcel Service	U.S.
15	Costco Wholesale	U.S.
16	Walt Disney	U.S.
17	Singapore Airlines	Singapore
18	Exxon Mobil	U.S.
19	Boeing	U.S.
20	Nokia	Finland
21	Citigroup	U.S.
22	Bank of America	U.S.
23	Honda Motor	Japan
24	Coca-Cola	U.S.
25*	Caterpillar	U.S.
25*	Nestlé	Switzerland
27	Dell	U.S.
28	Toyota Industries	Japan
29	Intel	U.S.
30	Tesco	Britain
31	DuPont	U.S.
32*	Cisco Systems	U.S.
32*	Walgreen	U.S.
34*	Samsung Electronics	South Korea
34*	Anheuser-Busch	U.S.
36	BP	Britain
37*	Best Buy	U.S.
37*	Siemens	Germany
39	Home Depot	U.S.
40	L'Oréal	France
41	Sony	Japan
42	Motorola	U.S.
43	Hewlett-Packard	U.S.
44	Northwestern Mutual	U.S.
45	Lowe's	U.S.
46	Canon	Japan
47	Deere	U.S.
48*	HSBC Holdings	Britain
48*	Xerox	U.S.
50	Dow Chemical	U.S.

From the March 19, 2007 issue

* Indicates a tie in rank.
¹Changed name from Apple Computer

How the countries stack up

Country	Number of Most Admired companies
United States	135
Japan	61
Britain	26
France	26
Germany	26
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How we pick the World's Most Admired companies

Last fall Hay Group surveyed financial analysts and executives and directors at 347 companies... (more)