Wal-Mart was the top retailer in 12th position, with Home Depot 13th and Costco 15th. Direct sales specialist Dell came 8th and coffee chain Starbucks was 5th in the table, led out by GE in top spot.
The report card on US business has eight key categories, including innovation, managing talent and industry champions. US department store Nordstrom topped the poll for quality of product and services, while Home Depot was dubbed the top retail industry champion.
The Most Admired list is produced by Hay Group, starting with the Fortune 1,000 - the 1,000 largest US companies ranked by revenue - and the top foreign companies operating in the US. It sorts this by industry and selects the ten largest companies in each.
To create the top 20 and overall list, 10,000 executives, directors and securities analysts who had responded to the industry surveys were asked to select the ten companies they admired most.
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