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The World's Most Innovative Companies
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:23:24 -0700
________________________________________ From: Ram Narayanan [ram () usindiafriendship us] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 9:52 AM To: David Farber Subject: The World's Most Innovative Companies Dear Dave: BUSINESSWEEK Magazine has published its list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies in its issue dated April 28, 2008. The list has been compiled by the US financial publication in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group. The 50 companies are distributed, countrywise, as follows: USA 31 Britain 4 Germany 4 Japan 4 India 2 Canada 1 Finland 1 Netherlands 1 Singapore 1 South Korea 1 Total: 50 The two Indian industrial groups, included for the first time, are the Tatas and the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Group. The Tata group is ranked 6th and Reliance 19th. The Tata group ranks well above IBM, BMW, Honda Motor, General Motors, Boeing, Audi and Daimler. Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance ranks above companies like Boeing, Exxon and BP. The most interesting thing is that not a single Chinese company is considered innovative enough to make it to the list. The list of companies ranked in order are 1. APPLE 2. GOOGLE 3. TOYOTA MOTOR 4. GENERAL ELECTRIC 5. MICROSOFT 6.TATA GROUP 7. NINTENDO 8. PROCTER & GAMBLE 9. SONY 10. NOKIA 11. AMAZON.COM 12. IBM 13. RESEARCH IN MOTION 14. BMW 15. HEWLETT-PACKARD 16. HONDA MOTOR 17. WALT DISNEY 18. GENERAL MOTORS 19. RELIANCE INDUSTRIES 20. BOEING 21. GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP 22. 3M 23. WAL-MART STORES 24. TARGET 25. FACEBOOK 26. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS 27. AT&T 28. VIRGIN GROUP 29. AUDI 30. MCDONALD’S 31. DAIMLER 32. STARBUCKS 33. EBAY 34. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS 35. CISCO SYSTEMS 36. ING GROEP 37. SINGAPORE AIRLINES 38. SIEMENS 39. COSTCO WHOLESALE 40. HSBC 41. BANK OF AMERICA 42. EXXON MOBIL 43. NEWS CORP. 44. BP 45. NIKE 46. DELL 47. VODAFONE GROUP 48. INTEL 49. SOUTHWEST AIRLINES 50. AMERICAN EXPRESS When Indian companies make at least a third of the world’s 50 most innovative companies, hopefully in another five years, India would have arrived. The US will doubtless continue to lead the list of innovative companies in number and percentage-wise. For the BUSINESSWEEK article, click: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/08_17/B4081best_companies_at_innovation.htm Please post your comments at http://usindiafriendship.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Ram Narayanan US-India Friendship http://usindiafriendship.net/ http://usindiafriendship.blogspot.com/ Powered By PanWebMailer Version 2.0 © 2004-2005<http://www.panwebmailer.com> ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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