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Mexican Carlos Slim has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates and legendary investor Warren Buffett to become the richest person in the world with a total wealth of $53.5 billion, according to this year’s edition of the Forbes Rich List.
Amancio Ortega, the Spanish founder of the clothing stores Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka and Stradivarius, was [...]
Abbott tops the 2010 Top 50 Companies for Executive Women list compiled by the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE). Aetna and American Express Company trail in second and third place, respectively.
The 2010 NAFE Top 50 is based on the performance of companies in 2009. And while last year was dismal for most of corporate [...]
For the third year in a row Apple has been named the World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine. Google places second, overall, in the ranking and is trailed by Berkshire Hathaway, in third place.
The World’s Most Admired Companies listing encompasses 346 organizations and is based on a survey of executives, directors and analysts who [...]
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Hewlett-Packard Co. has moved up from its number five ranking in 2009 to top the 2010 CRO magazine’s annual list of America’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens. Intel Corp. and General Mills Inc. followed up in second and third place, respectively.
Corporate Responsibility magazine’s ranking is based on over 360 points of data in seven responsibility [...]
IESE Professor Xavier Vives is among the “Top Ten Most Cited Spanish Social Scientists”, according to a survey conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information. The top-ranked Spanish social scientist is sociologist Manuel Castells. Sociologist and political scientist Juan J. Linz occupies second place in the ranking and economist Andreu Mas-Colell, third.
The ranking of the [...]
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Leo Messi is the world’s biggest football celebrity, according to a new report on the media value of football in 2009/10 conducted by the University of Navarra’s ESI research group. Messi, who picked up a total of 21.6 media value points, is trailed in second place by Cristiano Ronaldo, with 19.6 points, and the [...]
Microsoft has knocked Google off its top spot in the 2010 Business Superbrands survey, with the latter slipping four places to 5th. Rolls-Royce Group retained its position at second while BlackBerry shot up the ranking (from last year’s 43rd) to take third place.
In the annual survey compiled by The Centre for Brand Analysis (TCBA), brands [...]
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Tokyo has become the world’s most expensive office location, according to the Office Space Across the World 2010 report conducted by Cushman & Wakefield. Meanwhile, London’s West End moved from third to second place in the ranking and Hong Kong fell from first to third.
The annual study compares office occupancy costs in 132 key locations [...]
Walmart, Google and Coca-Cola are the world’s most valuable brands according to BrandFinance® Global 500. Also of note is the fact that Santander has made huge leaps in terms of brand value, shooting up the ranking from 41st to 12th position in just one year.
The report describes the relative equity of the 500 top global [...]
Facebook has moved up 15 places to top this year’s edition of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World. Amazon and Apple took second and third place, respectively.
The survey recognizes creative models and progressive cultures – the many forms of innovation that exist across the business landscape – in addition to revenue growth [...]
