State	No. of Most Admired Cos.
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Alabama	1
Alaska	0
Arizona	2
Arkansas	2
California	39
Colorado	3
Connecticut	7
Delaware	1
District of Columbia	1
Florida	10
Georgia	9
Hawaii	0
Idaho	0
Illinois	19
Indiana	5
Iowa	1
Kansas	1
Kentucky	2
Louisiana	0
Maine	0
Maryland	6
Massachusetts	7
Michigan	10
Minnesota	10
Mississippi	0
Missouri	6
Montana	0
Nebraska	3
Nevada	3
New Hampshire	2
New Jersey	9
New Mexico	0
New York	37
North Carolina	7
North Dakota	0
Ohio	12
Oklahoma	3
Oregon	2
Pennsylvania	6
Rhode Island	1
South Carolina	2
South Dakota	0
Tennessee	5
Texas	34
Utah	0
Vermont	0
Virginia	6
Washington	9
West Virginia	0
Wisconsin	5
Wyoming	0

	Population
Best Places to Live in California
Folsom	65,600
Livermore	78,400
Rancho Cucamonga	149,200
San Diego	1,255,500
Santa Clarita	172,500
Simi Valley	118,700
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Company	City	Industry rank
Most Admired
Walt Disney	Burbank	1
Countrywide Financial	Calabasas	3
Apple	Cupertino	2
Broadcom	Irvine	2
Reliance Steel & Aluminum	Los Angeles	4
Univision Communications	Los Angeles	4
Occidental Petroleum	Los Angeles	2
Northrop Grumman	Los Angeles	5
KB Home	Los Angeles	5
Robert Half International	Menlo Park	1
Intuit	Mountain View	1
VeriSign	Mountain View	5
Google	Mountain View	2
Hewlett-Packard	Palo Alto	5
Jacobs Engineering Group	Pasadena	4
Safeway	Pleasanton	5
Electronic Arts	Redwood City	5
Sempra Energy	San Diego	4
Science Applications Intl.	San Diego	4
Qualcomm	San Diego	4
Charles Schwab	San Francisco	6
McKesson	San Francisco	4
Wells Fargo	San Francisco	3
Adobe Systems	San Jose	3
eBay	San Jose	3
Cisco Systems	San Jose	1
Con-way	San Mateo	1
Autodesk	San Rafael	2
Chevron	San Ramon	2
Ingram Micro	Santa Ana	1
First American	Santa Ana	5
Intel	Santa Clara	5
Applied Materials	Santa Clara	3
Seagate Technology	Scotts Valley	2
Genentech	South San Francisco	1
Yahoo!	Sunnyvale	4
Advanced Micro Devices	Sunnyvale	4
Network Appliance	Sunnyvale	1
Amgen	Thousand Oaks	3
Contenders
UTStarcom	Alameda	10
Hilton Hotels	Beverly Hills	6
CKE Restaurants	Carpinteria	10
Unified Western Grocers	Commerce	5
Pacer International	Concord	7
Symantec	Cupertino	6
DaVita	El Segundo	7
Computer Sciences	El Segundo	8
DirecTV Group	El Segundo	7
Synnex	Fremont	8
Beckman Coulter	Fullerton	9
Quiksilver	Huntington Beach	7
New Century Financial	Irvine	10
Gateway	Irvine	10
Western Digital	Lake Forest	6
Solectron	Milpitas	10
Clorox	Oakland	6
IndyMac Bancorp	Pasadena	7
Oracle	Redwood City	8
Edison International	Rosemead	8
Jack in the Box	San Diego	9
ABM Industries	San Francisco	7
URS	San Francisco	6
Levi Strauss	San Francisco	8
Gap	San Francisco	7
Sanmina-SCI	San Jose	9
Bell Microproducts	San Jose	10
Calpine	San Jose	10
Franklin Resources	San Mateo	9
Sun Microsystems	Santa Clara	7
Juniper Networks	Sunnyvale	6
Granite Construction	Watsonville	7
Health Net	Woodland Hills	10

Industry champions

Company	Industry
Nike	Apparel
Whole Foods	Food and Drug Stores
Cisco	Network Communications
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Most admired for people management

Company	Industry rank
FedEx	1
Procter & Gamble	1
Google	2
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Most admired for innovation

Company	Industry rank
Apple	2
Google	2
FedEx	1
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How we pick the Most Admired companies

The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate reputations. Our survey partners at Hay Group started with the FORTUNE 1,000... (more)