World's Most Admired Companies

States

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
Walt Disney	Burbank	1
Cheesecake Factory	Calabasas Hills	5
Apple	Cupertino	1
Broadcom	Irvine	4
Northrop Grumman	Los Angeles	7
KB Home	Los Angeles	1
Occidental Petroleum	Los Angeles	1
CB Richard Ellis Group	Los Angeles	3
Reliance Steel & Aluminum	Los Angeles	5
Netflix	Los Gatos	3
Robert Half International	Menlo Park	2
Intuit	Mountain View	4
Google	Mountain View	1
Hewlett-Packard	Palo Alto	3
Jacobs Engineering Group	Pasadena	3
Safeway	Pleasanton	5
Oracle	Redwood City	2
Qualcomm	San Diego	1
Visa	San Francisco	2
Wells Fargo	San Francisco	5
Charles Schwab	San Francisco	1
Gap	San Francisco	3
McKesson	San Francisco	1
Adobe Systems	San Jose	1
eBay	San Jose	5
Cisco Systems	San Jose	2
Franklin Resources	San Mateo	3
Autodesk	San Rafael	5
Chevron	San Ramon	4
Ingram Micro	Santa Ana	4
Intel	Santa Clara	1
Applied Materials	Santa Clara	3
Seagate Technology	Scotts Valley	7
Juniper Networks	Sunnyvale	3
Amgen	Thousand Oaks	5

Contenders

Company	City	Industry rank
Live Nation Entertainment	Beverly Hills	10
Pacer International	Concord	11
Synnex	Fremont	6
Guess?	Los Angeles	13
Symantec	Mountain View	7
Clorox	Oakland	9
Ross Stores	Pleasanton	6
Electronic Arts	Redwood City	10
Edison International	Rosemead	8
Jack in the Box	San Diego	9
Levi Strauss	San Francisco	9
PG&E Corp.	San Francisco	6
Sanmina-SCI	San Jose	14
Agilent Technologies	Santa Clara	8
Activision Blizzard	Santa Monica	9
Yahoo	Sunnyvale	7
Advanced Micro Devices	Sunnyvale	9
Health Net	Woodland Hills	7

From the March 21, 2011 issue

Top 50 Headquarters

Show: Top 50 | All Most Admired: The Americas | Europe | Asia/Australia

Pick a state

State	No. of most admired cos.

Alabama	0
Alaska	0
Arizona	2
Arkansas	2
California	35
Colorado	2
Connecticut	6
Delaware	1
District of Columbia	0
Florida	7
Georgia	8
Hawaii	0

Idaho	1
Illinois	21
Indiana	4
Iowa	0
Kansas	0
Kentucky	3
Louisiana	0
Maine	0
Maryland	6
Massachusetts	8
Michigan	7
Minnesota	8
Mississippi	0
Missouri	4
Montana	0

Nebraska	2
Nevada	1
New Hampshire	0
New Jersey	12
New Mexico	0
New York	33
North Carolina	4
North Dakota	0
Ohio	12
Oklahoma	1
Oregon	1
Pennsylvania	7

Rhode Island	1
South Carolina	1
South Dakota	0
Tennessee	5
Texas	11
Utah	0
Vermont	0
Virginia	10
Washington	8
West Virginia	0
Wisconsin	5
Wyoming	0

Company	Industry rank
Apple	1
Google	1
Nike	1

Company	Industry rank
Goldman Sachs Group	1
Apple	1
Walt Disney	1

Company	Industry rank
Google	1
Apple	1
McDonald's	1

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