CALIFORNIA THE BEST?

           YOU BE THE JUDGE, TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

Fortune Magazine ranked 363 of the world’s companies into a list entitled:
World’s Most Admired Companies.  Out of the list, 273 are from the United
States.  In terms of rankings, the ‘Golden State’ has the highest number
of companies on the list from any state with 38.  California is followed
by New York with 31, Texas with 22, Illinois 19, New Jersey 16, Minnesota
and Ohio both with 11, Florida and Michigan both with10.

Cupertino-based Apple ranked #1 on the list. It was followed by Google at
#4 as the two companies from California ranking in the world’s top ten.

                                               

Also on the list from California are Walt Disney, Unified Grocers, DaVita,
CB Richard Ellis Group, KB Home, Northrop Grumman, Occidental Petroleum,
Reliance Steel and Aluminum, Robert Half International, Google, Intuit,
Hewlett-Packard, Jacobs Engineering, Safeway, Electronic Arts, Qualcomm,
SAIC, Sempra Energy, Charles Schwab, Levi Strauss, McKesson, VISA, Wells
Fargo, Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Chevron, Ingram Micro, Applied
Material, Intel, Nvidia, Sun Microsystems, Seagate Technology, Juniper
Network, NetApp and Amgen.

But there wee a variety of other California companies left off the list
including some very familiar names including, Oracle, Gap, Western Digital,
Conway, Kaiser Permanente, Clorox, Advanced Micro Devices to mention a few.

See the background at:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2009/states/CA.html

Then, let us know your thoughts?  Do California companies deserve greater
attention?  Who else do you think should have been on or off the list?
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