Steve Jobs’ company takes top honors for the fourth year in a row
Pay no attention to that logo behind the ripped-open shirt on the cover of Fortune‘s current issue.
The magazine’s most-admired company — for the fourth year in a row — is Apple (AAPL), not IBM (IBM).
“The company’s blistering pace of new product releases,” writes Shelley DuBois, “has continued to set the bar high for tech companies across the board.”
And that was printed before the iPad 2 was unveiled.
You can see her write-up here. The list of 50 most-admireds, which includes No. 2 Google (GOOG) and No. 9 Microsoft (MSFT), is here.
IBM, despite its cover billing, came in No. 12.
Also on Fortune.com:
- Apple is Fortune’s ‘most admired’ – for the third year in a row
- Apple tops Fortune’s ‘most admired’ list – again
- Apple tops Fortunes Most Admired Companies
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