Halliburton Voted ‘Worst Company in America’ by Consumerist Readers

It’s official. Out of 16 contestants you submitted, you voted Halliburton the Worst Company in America.

We first asked for your submissions on February 17th. We posted the ladder on Feb. 22. Then we had rounds 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7, 8, tier 1 results, rounds 9, 10, 11, 12, tier 2 results, rounds 13 & 14, and finally, the tier 4 deathmatch.

Full results graph, suitable for framing, here.

In the process, the contests got us in the New York Times and on Marketplace.

Thanks to participants Monsanto, US Postal Service, H&R Block, Sprint PCS, Verizon, Walmart, Target, Southwest, Jetblu, ChoicePoint, Sallie Mae, SonyBMG, Google, Enron and the US Government. Better luck next time.

All of the entrants were chosen and voted upon by you, o mighty readers. Thanks for playing along for over month, it was fun and we learned a lot. We’ll do it even better next time. And we still have the best company in America to do…

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