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To appear as Most Admired, a company must have scored in the top half of its industry survey. The rest are listed as contenders.
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Most Admired
Company
City
Industry rank
Alcoa
New York
1
American Express
New York
2
Arrow Electronics
Melville
5
Bank of New York Mellon
New York
3
Bunge
White Plains
3
Colgate-Palmolive
New York
2
Corning
Corning
5
Estée Lauder
New York
6
Goldman Sachs Group
New York
1
Henry Schein
Melville
4
IAC/InterActiveCorp
New York
3
IBM
Armonk
1
J.P. Morgan Chase
New York
2
MasterCard
Purchase
3
MetLife
New York
4
Morgan Stanley
New York
7
New York Life
New York
1
News Corp.
New York
5
Paychex
Rochester
3
Pepsi Bottling Group
Somers
4
PepsiCo
Purchase
2
Philip Morris International
New York
1
Phillips-Van Heusen
New York
7
Polo Ralph Lauren
New York
3
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
White Plains
3
TIAA-CREF
New York
8
Time Warner
New York
3
Travelers
New York
4
Verizon Communications
New York
1
Viacom
New York
4
Volt Information Sciences
New York
4
Warnaco Group
New York
6
Contenders
Company
City
Industry rank
ABM Industries
New York
7
Avon Products
New York
8
Bristol-Myers Squibb
New York
10
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Lake Success
8
CA
Islandia
10
CBS
New York
9
Citigroup
New York
16
Consolidated Edison
New York
10
Eastman Kodak
Rochester
12
ITT
White Plains
10
Jarden
Rye
12
Jones Apparel Group
New York
13
Liz Claiborne
New York
14
M&T Bank
Buffalo
7
Pfizer
New York
13
Universal American
Rye Brook
8
Warner Music Group
New York
8
From the March 22, 2010 issue
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0
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1
Arkansas
2
California
37
Colorado
0
Connecticut
7
Delaware
1
District of Columbia
0
Florida
7
Georgia
11
Hawaii
0
Idaho
3
Illinois
19
Indiana
3
Iowa
0
Kansas
0
Kentucky
3
Louisiana
0
Maine
0
Maryland
5
Massachusetts
8
Michigan
5
Minnesota
10
Mississippi
0
Missouri
2
Montana
0
Nebraska
2
Nevada
2
New Hampshire
0
New Jersey
11
New Mexico
0
New York
33
North Carolina
5
North Dakota
0
Ohio
7
Oklahoma
2
Oregon
1
Pennsylvania
5
Rhode Island
2
South Carolina
0
South Dakota
0
Tennessee
5
Texas
17
Utah
0
Vermont
0
Virginia
9
Washington
7
West Virginia
0
Wisconsin
5
Wyoming
0
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