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30. Toyota Motor - The Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer is the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric vehicles.
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29. BMW - Since 1999, the German multinational company has been named the world's most sustainable automotive company every year by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
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28. Delta Air Lines - Delta has the largest fleet of Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft in the world.
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27. 3M - The multinational conglomerate corporation is responsible for a number of early 20th-century product innovations, including masking tape, post-it notes, and waterproof sandpaper.
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26. Goldman Sachs - According to its website, the multinational investment bank and financial services company has committed in excess of US$1.6 billion to philanthropic initiatives since 2008.
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25. Walmart - The world's largest company by revenue is also the largest private employer in the world.
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24. USAA - The insurance, banking, and investment company provides employees with continuous opportunities for education on diversity and inclusion matters through multiple channels.
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23. Marriott International - The multinational hospitality company has more than 6,500 properties in 127 countries and territories around the world. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)
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22. BlackRock - The global investment management corporation is the world's largest asset manager, with US$5.98 trillion in assets currently under management.
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21. Home Depot - The largest home improvement retailer in the US has contributed over US$200 million in time, labor, money, and supplies to a number of charitable causes, including Habitat for Humanity, since 2002.
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20. Nordstrom - The American chain of luxury department stores has previously been voted by US consumers as the nation's favorite fashion retailer.
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19. Boeing - Among the largest global aircraft manufacturers, Boeing is collaborating with a number of jet fuel manufacturers to develop alternative biofuel that could reduce flight-related greenhouse-gas emissions by 60-80%.
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18. Singapore Airlines - The airline was the launch customer for the Airbus A380—the world's largest passenger aircraft. Its innovative and luxurious 'Singapore Airline Suites' is a class available only on the Airbus A380-800.
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17. Johnson & Johnson - The pharmaceuticals giant is responsible for numerous household-name consumer products, including the Band-Aid Brand line of bandages and Johnson's baby products.
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16. American Express - The multinational financial services corporation supports initiatives to enhance architectural and cultural heritage through the restoration of historical monuments.
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15. Coca-Cola - Coca-Cola has been officially made available in every country in the world except Cuba and North Korea.
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14. Salesforce - The cloud-based software company was ranked first in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2018.
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13. Nike - Nike’s longest-running environmental project is its Reuse-A-Shoe program, started in 1993. Old athletic shoes of any type are collected in order to process and recycle them.
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12. Costco Wholesale - The multinational corporation, which operates a membership-only warehouse, is planning to open a store in China later this year.
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11. Southwest Airlines - As of January 2019, Southwest carries the most domestic passengers of any United States airline. It currently employs over 58,000 full-time staff. (Photo: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0)
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10. FedEx - FedEx was named by Fortune magazine as one of the top 100 companies to work for in 2013, highlighting the company’s decision to downsize with voluntary buyouts rather than involuntary layoffs.
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9. JPMorgan Chase - This is the world’s most valuable bank by market capitalization—the market value of a publicly traded company’s outstanding shares.
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8. Netflix - As of January 2019, the multi-award winning media-services provider has over 139 million paid subscriptions worldwide.
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7. Alphabet - The parent company of Google, Alphabet’s considerable portfolio encompasses internet services, technology, retailing, and research, among other industries.
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6. Microsoft - The world’s largest software manufacturer is also one of the world’s most valuable companies.
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5. Starbucks Coffee - Coffee company and coffeehouse chain Starbucks announced in 2018 that it will ban single-use plastic straws by 2020 on all cold drinks from all locations worldwide.
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4. Walt Disney - On October 1, 1971 Walt Disney World was inaugurated. It remains the most-visited vacation resort in the world.
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3. Berkshire Hathaway - Headed by Warren Buffett, the multinational conglomerate holding company is one of the largest public companies in the world.
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2. Amazon - Founded in 1994 as an online bookstore, Amazon today is the largest internet company by revenue in the world.
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1. Apple - Maintaining its 2018 position, Apple is the most admired company in the world, according to Fortune. Its worldwide annual revenue totaled US$265 billion for the 2018 fiscal year. An advocate of charitable causes, Apple's partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature to "help protect life on our planet" is just one of its charity campaign initiatives.
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The world's most admired companies in 2019
Which company is the envy of them all?
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