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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.
Most Admired
Company City Industry rank
Adobe Systems San Jose 1
Amgen Thousand Oaks 5
Apple Cupertino 1
Applied Materials Santa Clara 3
Autodesk San Rafael 5
Broadcom Irvine 4
CB Richard Ellis Group Los Angeles 3
Charles Schwab San Francisco 1
Cheesecake Factory Calabasas Hills 5
Chevron San Ramon 4
Cisco Systems San Jose 2
eBay San Jose 5
Franklin Resources San Mateo 3
Gap San Francisco 3
Google Mountain View 1
Hewlett-Packard Palo Alto 3
Ingram Micro Santa Ana 4
Intel Santa Clara 1
Intuit Mountain View 4
Jacobs Engineering Group Pasadena 3
Juniper Networks Sunnyvale 3
KB Home Los Angeles 1
McKesson San Francisco 1
Netflix Los Gatos 3
Northrop Grumman Los Angeles 7
Occidental Petroleum Los Angeles 1
Oracle Redwood City 2
Qualcomm San Diego 1
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Los Angeles 5
Robert Half International Menlo Park 2
Safeway Pleasanton 5
Seagate Technology Scotts Valley 7
Visa San Francisco 2
Walt Disney Burbank 1
Wells Fargo San Francisco 5
Contenders
Company City Industry rank
Activision Blizzard Santa Monica 9
Advanced Micro Devices Sunnyvale 9
Agilent Technologies Santa Clara 8
Clorox Oakland 9
Edison International Rosemead 8
Electronic Arts Redwood City 10
Guess? Los Angeles 13
Health Net Woodland Hills 7
Jack in the Box San Diego 9
Levi Strauss San Francisco 9
Live Nation Entertainment Beverly Hills 10
Pacer International Concord 11
PG&E Corp. San Francisco 6
Ross Stores Pleasanton 6
Sanmina-SCI San Jose 14
Symantec Mountain View 7
Synnex Fremont 6
Yahoo Sunnyvale 7
From the March 21, 2011 issue
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