America's Most And Least Admired Products And Services: Budweiser Is Good, Coors Is Not

By May 28, 2008

Each year Fortune magazine does a survey to determine America’s most admired companies. We took a look at their data and found the top 10 most admired companies for the quality of their products and services. We also found the least admired.

Oddly, beer topped each of the lists. Anheuser-Busch is the company most admired for the quality of its products, while Molson Coors is the least admired. The full lists inside.

The Top 10 Most Admired Companies Based On Quality of Products Or Services:

1 Anheuser-Busch
2 Nordstrom
3 Medco Health Solutions
4 John Deere
5 BMW
6* United Parcel Service
6* Adobe Systems
8 Fortune Brands
9 Procter & Gamble
10 Herman Miller

The Top 10 Least Admired Companies Based On Quality of Products Or Services:

1 Molson Coors Brewing
2 Amtrak
3 Dollar General
4 US Airways Group
5 Family Dollar Stores
6 Constellation Brands (Arbor Mist wine)
7 WellCare Health Plans
8 Amerco (parent company of U-Haul)
9 Northwest Airlines
10 Sears Holdings

What companies do you admire?

Best & Worst: Quality of Products And Services [Fortune]
(Photo: *nomad* )

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Comments

  1. canasian says:
    May 29, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    I’m a big customer service guy (not unlike everyone else here)

    Most Admired:
    Zappos.com
    Les Schwab Tires
    Apple
    Costco

    Least Admired:
    Delta Airlines
    Comcast
    Sprint
    Sears

  2. capnjack says:
    May 29, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    I’m really baffled as to how 2 of the 10 least admired companies are dollar stores. I mean, do you really expect excellence at the dollar store? What kind of people were they polling that yielded not one, but TWO dollar stores on this hate list??

  3. Amac says:
    May 30, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    It’s not on the list, but Garmin (the GPS maker) should easily be considered one of the 10 best. Their customer service is something I haven’t seen anywhere else in this modern age.

  4. FrankReality says:
    June 1, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    Regarding interpreting surveys – for this one you should probably factor in the demographics of Fortune readers and how that can skew the results.

  5. ppiddyp says:
    June 4, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    @Applekid: I’m an asshole, but my BMW has 230K miles on it, so don’t take it out on the car.

  6. RandPaul says:
    June 21, 2008 at 6:00 am

    newegg and zappos are great. Apple blows.

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