FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 41 (2004 rank: 44)
Esquel Group
Hong Kong
Chairman and CEO
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| Yang, 53, runs one of the world's leading cotton-shirt makers. The family-owned company made 60 million garments last year for many of the world's best-known brands, from Tommy Hilfiger to Brooks Brothers, and had revenue of about $500 million. This year, despite objections from some Esquel executives about timing, she decided to invest $150 million in a new fabric mill in China that will double capacity. |
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From the November 14, 2005 issue
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| Highest pay |
| These women are among the highest paid in corporate America. All of them are employed by companies with over $1 billion in sales that filed proxies by September 1, 2005. |
| Young and powerful |
| Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s. |
| Perennial powers |
| These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998. |
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