Apple number two on AMR Research’s Supply Chain Top 25

Posted by Dennis Sellers Jan 10, 2008 at 6:18am

AMR Research today announced that its Supply Chain Top 25 portfolio of companies outperformed the market for the third year in a row. And Apple is number two on the list, topped only by Nokia.

The average total return of the Supply Chain Top 25 companies for 2007 is 17.89 percent, compared with returns of 6.43 percent for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and 3.53 percent for the S&P 500.

“We’re excited to once again have proof that supply chain excellence and leadership do make a difference,” says Kevin O’Marah, chief strategy officer at AMR Research. “Clearly, this is a group of companies that excels, strongly weathering the ups and downs we saw in the market last year.”

AMR Research’s Supply Chain Top 25 is an annual ranking that calls out large manufacturers and retailers that display “superior supply chain performance, capabilities, and leadership.” The analysis takes basic public data as a foundation—return on assets, inventory turns, and growth—and considers expert and peer assessments of the future leadership potential of each company.

Following Nokia and Apple, the other companies on the list are: Proctor & Gamble, IBM, Toyota, Wal-Mart, Anheuser-Busch, Tesco, Best buy, Samsung, Cisco Systems, Motorola, The Coca-Cola Company, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Johnson Controls, Texas Instruments, Nike, Lowe’s, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, Publix Super Markets, Paccar and AstraZeneca

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