Comments on: Britain’s Most Admired Companies http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/ Leadership and Management Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Graham Salisbury http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Graham Salisbury Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:54:10 +0000 http://goalsandachievements.com/?p=1217#comment-215 As with all such listings, it depends what one means by "most admired" and also who who is doing the admiring! Covalence are a Swiss-based organisation that track the ethical reputation of multinational companies, and produce a regularly updated ranking of such organisations. The criteria that they use in determining ranking are largely based on the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development globally, with particular attention paid to the needs and realities of developing countries. Here's how the Companies on the "most admired" list fare when a different set of criteria are applied! Interesting that on that basis, BSkyB would be bottom of the list, not the top! 1.BSkyB 323/581 2.Tesco 97/581 3.Johnson Matthey 299/581 4.Cadbury 26/581 5.GlaxoSmithKline 29/581 6.Rolls-Royce Not Listed 7.BP 130/581 8.BG Group 308/581 9.Diageo 39/581 10.Cobham Not Listed As with all such listings, it depends what one means by “most admired” and also who who is doing the admiring!

Covalence are a Swiss-based organisation that track the ethical reputation of multinational companies, and produce a regularly updated ranking of such organisations.

The criteria that they use in determining ranking are largely based on the contribution of multinational enterprises to human development globally, with particular attention paid to the needs and realities of developing countries.

Here’s how the Companies on the “most admired” list fare when a different set of criteria are applied! Interesting that on that basis, BSkyB would be bottom of the list, not the top!

1.BSkyB 323/581
2.Tesco 97/581
3.Johnson Matthey 299/581
4.Cadbury 26/581
5.GlaxoSmithKline 29/581
6.Rolls-Royce Not Listed
7.BP 130/581
8.BG Group 308/581
9.Diageo 39/581
10.Cobham Not Listed

]]> By: Lee Cooper http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/comment-page-1/#comment-2424 Lee Cooper Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:59:24 +0000 http://goalsandachievements.com/?p=1217#comment-2424 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @efficiencycoach: RT @duncanbrodie Britain’s Most Admired Companies http://bit.ly/a3nta5</span></span> RT @efficiencycoach: RT @duncanbrodie Britain’s Most Admired Companies http://bit.ly/a3nta5

]]> By: Gary Gorman http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/comment-page-1/#comment-2425 Gary Gorman Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:56:25 +0000 http://goalsandachievements.com/?p=1217#comment-2425 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT@duncanbrodie Britain’s Most Admired Companies: A table of the most admired companies was published in Managemen... http://bit.ly/a3nta5</span></span> RT@duncanbrodie Britain’s Most Admired Companies: A table of the most admired companies was published in Managemen… http://bit.ly/a3nta5

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]]> By: Mike Morrison http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/comment-page-1/#comment-2427 Mike Morrison Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:56:23 +0000 http://goalsandachievements.com/?p=1217#comment-2427 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @DuncanBrodie Britain’s Most Admired Companies: A table of the most admired companies was published in Manageme... http://bit.ly/cVaSYR</span></span> RT @DuncanBrodie Britain’s Most Admired Companies: A table of the most admired companies was published in Manageme… http://bit.ly/cVaSYR

]]> By: Duncan Brodie http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 Duncan Brodie Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:11:24 +0000 http://goalsandachievements.com/?p=1217#comment-1048 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">New blog post: Britain’s Most Admired Companies http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/</span></span> New blog post: Britain’s Most Admired Companies http://goalsandachievements.com/leading/britain%e2%80%99s-most-admired-companies/

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