This week’s economist had published this list of world’s more reputable companies.
I was surprised to see that inspite of all my claims of being aware of the world, etc etc, I knew the existence of only 9-10 companies in the list. I have seen no advertisements, nor have ever used any product marketed by a majority of them.
To see how other people react, I showed this survey around and asked people what they find most startling about this survey
1. A majority of them felt happy that Tata (thanks to Nano, Chorus etc) is in the list.
2. A few questioned the relevance of putting a Chocolate Manufacturer and a furniture retailer in the list.
3. What surprised me is that even though almost all of them were not aware of many of the companies in the list, they were nor surprised of this fact.
Are we Indians so ignorant (and worse accept our ignorance) that the fact that we are not even aware of the presence of these reputable companies?
Ankur Aggarwal
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Sandip Chaudhuri
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shobhendrasrivastava
i believe most indians see the list to check if any indian company exists and boast about it(if it does) else forget the list!
Comment by dolphin — May 8, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
i know and that surprised me the most
Comment by Ankur Aggarwal — May 8, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
I’m a little surprised that a company that specializes in chocolate topped the list. Perhaps Ferrero has a company policy of “Just do what we do and do it well.”
I wouldn’t worry about not knowing all the companies on the list. Some of them have their niche markets in their respective areas of the world and pretty much stay there. Or they’re parent companies of everyday products. For example, Johnson and Johnson owns Tylenol and Listerine.
Comment by Jack — May 8, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
@jack…
“Just do what we do and do it well.” is the corporate mantra of so many successful companies these days
about being in niche areas .. thanks it does makes me feel better
Comment by Ankur Aggarwal — May 9, 2009 @ 10:06 am
hHHHmfs…maybe!!!
Comment by Ginfel Rose — March 5, 2010 @ 2:53 pm