News : Top companies for leaders
At the back end of 2009, Fortune Magazine, listed their top 25 companies for leaders. These are the global businesses that are the best in attracting, retaining and nurturing talent. Fortune teamed up with human resources consultants Hewitt Associates and the RBL Group to find out which companies do it best.
To create the ranking, they surveyed more than 500 global companies in search of the top businesses at attracting, retaining, and nurturing talent. After several rounds of analysis and interviews, they turned to a team of respected judges from around the world to help select the final list.
The results highlight the top 25 global companies for developing leaders. The Fortune research also ranked companies within four geographic regions. The companies that made the cut have one thing in common: They know that investing in their employees isn't a luxury -- it's a necessity.
Here is the full list of 25
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1 |
IBM |
Armonk, NY |
$103.6 billion |
398,455 |
Samuel Palmisano |
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2 |
Procter & Gamble |
Cincinnati |
$79 billion* |
135,000 |
Bob McDonald |
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3 |
General Mills |
Minneapolis |
$14.7 billion* |
30,000 |
Ken Powell |
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4 |
McKinsey |
None |
More than $5 billion*** |
17,000 |
Dominic Barton |
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5 |
ICICI Bank |
Mumbai |
$47.4 billion* |
36,335 |
Chanda Kochhar |
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6 |
McDonald's |
Oak Brook, Ill. |
$23.5 billion |
1.4 million |
Jim Skinner |
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7 |
General Electric |
Fairfield, Conn. |
$182.5 billion |
300,000 |
Jeff Immelt |
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8 |
Titan Cement |
Athens |
$2.3 billion |
6,063 |
Dimitri Papalexopoulos |
|
9 |
China Mobile Communications Corp. - Shanghai |
Shanghai |
$2.5 billion |
7,919 |
Jie Zheng |
|
10 |
Hindustan Unilever |
Mumbai |
$4.4 billion** |
15,000 |
Nitin Paranjpe |
|
11 |
Natura Cosméticos |
Cajamar, Brazil |
$1.6 billion |
5,700 |
Alessandro Carlucci |
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12 |
Colgate Palmolive |
New York City |
$15.3 billion |
36,600 |
Ian Cook |
|
13 |
TNT |
Hoofddrop, Netherlands |
$16.5 billion |
152,000 |
Peter Bakker |
|
14 |
Deere & Company |
Moline, Ill. |
$28.4 billion |
56,000 |
Samuel Allen |
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15 |
Whirlpool |
Benton Harbor, Mich. |
$18.9 billion |
70,000 |
Jeff M. Fettig |
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16 |
3M |
St. Paul |
$25 billion |
75,000 |
George Buckley |
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17 |
Cargill |
Minneapolis |
$116.6 billion* |
159,000 |
Greg Page |
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18 |
Olam |
Singapore |
$8.9 billion* |
10,000 |
Sunny Verghese |
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19 |
Eli Lilly |
Indianapolis |
$20.4 billion |
40,800 |
John C. Lechleiter |
|
20 |
PepsiCo |
Purchase, NY |
$43 billion |
198,000 |
Indra K. Nooyi |
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21 |
American Express |
New York City |
$28.4 billion |
59,200 |
Ken Chenault |
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22 |
Lockheed Martin |
Bethesda, MD |
$42.7 billion |
140,000 |
Robert J. Stevens |
|
23 |
Intel |
Santa Clara, Calif. |
$37.6 billion |
80,800 |
Paul Otellini |
|
24 |
Infosys |
Bangalore, India |
$4.6 billion* |
105,000 |
S. Gopalakrishnan |
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25 |
Fedex |
Memphis |
$35.5 billion* |
275,000 |
Fred Smith |
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