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Friday, March 2, 2012

Apple: The most admired company on Fortune Magazine

Apple once again surpassed names such as Google and Amazon in competition, "the company received the admiration in the world", according to the latest poll conducted by Fortune magazine.
 

This is the 5th consecutive iPhone maker topped the threshold of a company in the world, the program takes place every year selected by Fortune magazine. This most likely means that CEO Tim Cook has done well his work since leaving Steve Jobs last month 10/2011, record a full quarter of financial success.
At # 2 is Google, the company had to undergo its own transformation in the last year after CEO Eric Schmidt resigned to cede position to co-founder Larry Page companies. After Page to assume his position, he decided to refocus on six core areas mortar products, including areas such as search, social networking, mobile and advertising.
 
Amazon to No. 3 with a strategic advantage in low-income profitable to focus on the benefits later.
In addition, a number of other technology companies are in the Top 50 can be included such as IBM, Microsoft, Samsung, eBay, Cisco and AT & T.
 
To be able to complete this list, Fortune conduct an investigation conducted with about 1,400 companies worldwide based on revenue and the best elements. The magazine then hired Hay Group in the group for comments from the CEO, analysts and leaders in other business to choose the best company. The factors to determine the most admired company based on factors such as investment value, social responsibility and many other good principal.
 
This year's rankings are taken from selected results from the 3855 business professionals, are asked to select the 10 companies they admire most.
 
Despite being voted the most admired companies but not for companies that have received support. Specifically, as with most Apple has recently been protests by workers on the production conditions at the Foxconn factory in China, a company specialized in assembling products for Apple. At a later meeting online, the iPhone manufacturer Foxconn has put pressure to force factories to improve working conditions for workers.
 
Executive director is Tim Cook confirmed that Apple could do more to improve working conditions in factories. Even recently the company has asked Fair Labor Association (FLA) shall investigate conditions at the production plant of Foxconn, to detect a range of issues here.
Meanwhile, Google has faced recent concerns about the privacy issue, a recurring theme with giants in the search field.