| Industry champions in 2008 | ||
| These companies are the most admired in their sector, according to their peers. | ||
| Company | Industry | Overall |
| score | ||
| Anheuser-Busch | Beverages | 7.97 |
| ArcelorMittal | Metals | 7.74 |
| AT&T | Telecommunications | 7.32 |
| Bank of America | Megabanks | 7.35 |
| Berkshire Hathaway | Insurance: Property and Casualty | 8.07 |
| BMW | Motor Vehicles | 7.88 |
| Cisco Systems | Network Communications | 7.82 |
| Continental Airlines | Airlines | 9.14 |
| Costco Wholesale | Specialty Retailers | 7.71 |
| Deere | Industrial and Farm Equipment | 8.18 |
| DuPont | Chemicals | 6.91 |
| Exxon Mobil | Petroleum Refining | 7.9 |
| Fluor | Engineering, Construction | 7.14 |
| General Electric | Electronics | 8.4 |
| Goodyear Tire & Rubber | Motor Vehicle Parts | 6.89 |
| IBM | Computers | 7.5 |
| Johnson & Johnson | Pharmaceuticals | 6.95 |
| Nestl� | Consumer Food Products | 8.17 |
| Occidental Petroleum | Mining, Crude-Oil Production | 7.89 |
| Procter & Gamble | Soaps and Cosmetics | 8.39 |
| Prudential Financial | Insurance: Life and Health | 7.25 |
| Target | General Merchandisers | 7.69 |
| Tesco | Food and Drug Stores | 8.02 |
| Texas Instruments | Semiconductors | 7.26 |
| Textron | Aerospace and Defense | 7.29 |
| United Parcel Service | Delivery | 8.42 |
| Top 50 in 2008 | ||
| For the 50 most admired companies overall, | ||
| FORTUNE's survey asked businesspeople to vote for the companies that they admired most, from any industry. | ||
| Rank | Company | Country |
| 1 | Apple | U.S. |
| 2 | General Electric | U.S. |
| 3 | Toyota Motor | Japan |
| 4 | Berkshire Hathaway | U.S. |
| 5 | Procter & Gamble | U.S. |
| 6 | FedEx | U.S. |
| 7 | Johnson & Johnson | U.S. |
| 8 | Target | U.S. |
| 9 | BMW | Germany |
| 10 | Microsoft | U.S. |
| 11 | Costco Wholesale | U.S. |
| 12 | United Parcel Service | U.S. |
| 13* | IBM | U.S. |
| 13* | PepsiCo | U.S. |
| 15 | Cisco Systems | U.S. |
| 16 | Boeing | U.S. |
| 17 | Wal-Mart Stores | U.S. |
| 18 | Honda Motor | Japan |
| 19 | Coca-Cola | U.S. |
| 20 | Caterpillar | U.S. |
| 21 | Singapore Airlines | Singapore |
| 22 | Bank of America | U.S. |
| 23* | Exxon Mobil | U.S. |
| 23* | Nokia | Finland |
| 25 | Intel | U.S. |
| 26 | Anheuser-Busch | U.S. |
| 27 | Nestl� | Switzerland |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard | U.S. |
| 29 | Best Buy | U.S. |
| 30 | Lowe's | U.S. |
| 31 | Toyota Industries | Japan |
| 32 | DuPont | U.S. |
| 33 | Deere | U.S. |
| 34* | AT&T | U.S. |
| 34* | Northwestern Mutual | U.S. |
| 36 | Walgreen | U.S. |
| 37* | L'Or�al | France |
| 37* | Xerox | U.S. |
| 39 | Sony | Japan |
| 40 | Dell | U.S. |
| 41* | BASF | Germany |
| 41* | Continental Airlines | U.S. |
| 43 | Siemens | Germany |
| 44 | Verizon Communications | U.S. |
| 45 | United Technologies | U.S. |
| 46 | Motorola | U.S. |
| 47 | Texas Instruments | U.S. |
| 48 | Lufthansa Group | Germany |
| 49* | Johnson Controls | U.S. |
| 49* | Tesco | Britain |
| Most Admired* USA in 2008 | ||
| Company | City | Overall |
| score | ||
| Continental Airlines** | Houston | 9.14 |
| United Parcel Service | Atlanta | 8.42 |
| General Electric | Fairfield | 8.4 |
| Procter & Gamble | Cincinnati | 8.39 |
| Deere | Moline | 8.18 |
| Berkshire Hathaway | Omaha | 8.07 |
| Caterpillar | Peoria | 7.98 |
| Anheuser-Busch | St. Louis | 7.97 |
| FedEx | Memphis | 7.9 |
| Exxon Mobil | Irving | 7.9 |
| Occidental Petroleum | Los Angeles | 7.89 |
| Cisco Systems | San Jose | 7.82 |
| Chevron | San Ramon | 7.8 |
| Costco Wholesale | Issaquah | 7.71 |
| Target | Minneapolis | 7.69 |
| Kroger | Cincinnati | 7.63 |
| Safeway | Pleasanton | 7.55 |
| IBM | Armonk | 7.5 |
| Apple | Cupertino | 7.4 |
| Hewlett-Packard | Palo Alto | 7.38 |
| Devon Energy | Oklahoma City | 7.36 |
| Bank of America | Charlotte | 7.35 |
| AT&T | San Antonio | 7.32 |
| Illinois Tool Works | Glenview | 7.31 |
| J.C. Penney | Plano | 7.3 |
| Textron | Providence | 7.29 |
| United Technologies | Hartford | 7.27 |
| Texas Instruments | Dallas | 7.26 |
| Prudential Financial | Newark | 7.25 |
| Northwestern Mutual | Milwaukee | 7.21 |
| Best Buy | Richfield | 7.2 |
| Lowe's | Mooresville | 7.2 |
| Pepsi Bottling Group | Somers | 7.17 |
| Microsoft | Redmond | 7.16 |
| Motorola | Schaumburg | 7.16 |
| Fluor | Irving | 7.14 |
| Boeing | Chicago | 7.12 |
| Staples | Framingham | 7.11 |
| Raytheon | Waltham | 7.1 |
| New York Life | New York | 7.04 |
| Verizon Communications | New York | 7.04 |
| General Mills | Minneapolis | 7.03 |
| Intel | Santa Clara | 6.98 |
| Honeywell International | Morristown | 6.96 |
| Johnson & Johnson | New Brunswick | 6.95 |
| ConocoPhillips | Houston | 6.94 |
| Cummins | Columbus | 6.94 |
| Macy's | Cincinnati | 6.93 |
| Xerox | Norwalk | 6.92 |
| DuPont | Wilmington | 6.91 |
| Coca-Cola | Atlanta | 6.9 |
| Goodyear Tire & Rubber | Akron | 6.89 |
| General Dynamics | Falls Church | 6.88 |
| Emerson Electric | St. Louis | 6.86 |
| Lockheed Martin | Bethesda | 6.84 |
| CVS/Caremark | Woonsocket | 6.83 |
| Walgreen | Deerfield | 6.81 |
| Colgate-Palmolive | New York | 6.81 |
| J.P. Morgan Chase | New York | 6.79 |
| Trane | Piscataway | 6.77 |
| Sun Microsystems | Santa Clara | 6.71 |
| Alcoa | New York | 6.69 |
| Merck | Whitehouse Station | 6.68 |
| Home Depot | Atlanta | 6.66 |
| Hartford Financial Services | Hartford | 6.65 |
| Travelers Cos. | St. Paul | 6.63 |
| Marathon Oil | Houston | 6.6 |
| Abbott Laboratories | Abbott Park | 6.55 |
| Wal-Mart Stores | Bentonville | 6.54 |
| PepsiCo | Purchase | 6.5 |
| Johnson Controls | Milwaukee | 6.5 |
| Eli Lilly | Indianapolis | 6.49 |
| Dow Chemical | Midland | 6.43 |
| Ingersoll-Rand | Montvale | 6.37 |
| Comcast | Philadelphia | 6.36 |
| Kimberly-Clark | Irving | 6.34 |
| Oracle | Redwood City | 6.32 |
| American International Group | New York | 6.31 |
| Gap | San Francisco | 6.28 |
| Kohl's | Menomonee Falls | 6.27 |
| Allstate | Northbrook | 6.27 |
| MetLife | New York | 6.26 |
| Applied Materials | Santa Clara | 6.22 |
| Liberty Mutual Insurance Group | Boston | 6.07 |
| Amgen | Thousand Oaks | 6.04 |
| Coca-Cola Enterprises | Atlanta | 5.88 |
| General Motors | Detroit | 5.86 |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta | 5.55 |
| Citigroup | New York | 5.54 |
| Lear | Southfield | 5.43 |
| Contenders | ||
| Company | City | Overall |
| score | ||
| Valero Energy | San Antonio | 6.46 |
| Northrop Grumman | Los Angeles | 6.29 |
| Eaton | Cleveland | 6.27 |
| Supervalu | Eden Prairie | 6.25 |
| Limited Brands | Columbus | 6.24 |
| Nucor | Charlotte | 6.11 |
| Kellogg | Battle Creek | 6.05 |
| Office Depot | Delray Beach | 6.04 |
| Wyeth | Madison | 5.96 |
| United States Steel | Pittsburgh | 5.8 |
| ConAgra Foods | Omaha | 5.68 |
| Dell | Round Rock | 5.66 |
| State Farm Insurance | Bloomington | 5.65 |
| TJX | Framingham | 5.64 |
| L-3 Communications | New York | 5.63 |
| Anadarko Petroleum | The Woodlands | 5.63 |
| Nationwide | Columbus | 5.51 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | New York | 5.46 |
| Pfizer | New York | 5.45 |
| Tyco International | Princeton | 5.43 |
| Circuit City Stores | Richmond | 5.41 |
| Schering-Plough | Kenilworth | 5.27 |
| Ford Motor | Dearborn | 5.25 |
| U.S. Postal Service | Washington | 5.17 |
| Lenovo Group | Hong Kong | 5.05 |
| Northwest Airlines | Eagan | 4.89 |
| AMR | Fort Worth | 4.76 |
| Sara Lee | Downers Grove | 4.7 |
| UAL | Chicago | 4.69 |
| Dean Foods | Dallas | 4.53 |
| Sprint Nextel | Overland Park | 4.12 |
| Sears Holdings | Hoffman Estates | 3.9 |
| Sanmina-SCI | San Jose | 3.68 |
| Delphi | Troy | 3.57 |
| Lyondell Chemical | Houston | 3.52 |
| Most Admired* JAPAN | ||
| Company | City | Overall |
| score | ||
| Toyota Motor | Toyota | 7.86 |
| Sony | Tokyo | 7.01 |
| Nippon Steel** | Tokyo | 6.87 |
| Honda Motor | Tokyo | 6.8 |
| Toyota Industries | Kariya | 6.7 |
| Takenaka | Osaka | 6.66 |
| Canon | Tokyo | 6.56 |
| Shimizu | Tokyo | 6.52 |
| Komatsu | Tokyo | 6.52 |
| Denso | Kariya | 6.38 |
| Kajima | Tokyo | 6.35 |
| Toshiba | Tokyo | 6.3 |
| Aisin Seiki | Kariya | 6.19 |
| JFE Holdings | Tokyo | 6.19 |
| Nissan Motor | Tokyo | 6.12 |
| Obayashi | Tokyo | 6.09 |
| Taisei | Tokyo | 6.06 |
| KDDI | Tokyo | 5.92 |
| Nippon Life Insurance | Osaka | 5.56 |
| Japan Airlines | Tokyo | 5.32 |
| Sumitomo Life Insurance | Osaka | 5.01 |
| Mitsubishi Chemical | Tokyo | 4.79 |
| Most Admired* CHINA | ||
| Company | City | Overall |
| score | ||
| Hutchison Whampoa | Hong Kong | 5.95 |
| China National Offshore Oil | Beijing | 5.67 |
| Baosteel Group** | Shanghai | 5.59 |
| China National Petroleum | Beijing | 5.11 |
| Huawei Technologies** | Shenzhen | 5.05 |
| China Minmetals** | Beijing | 4.86 |
| China State Construction | Beijing | 4.83 |
| Sinopec | Beijing | 4.81 |
| China Railway Construction | Beijing | 4.81 |
| China Communications Construction | Beijing | 4.81 |
| China Railway Engineering | Beijing | 4.73 |
| China Mobile Communications | Beijing | 4.72 |
| China Telecommunications | Beijing | 4.48 |
| China Life Insurance | Beijing | 4.26 |