The seventh annual survey of the Worlds Best Companies profiles the global leaders and the top regional players.
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With rising oil prices threatening to choke off global economic growth, however, we might look back on mid-2003 to mid-2004 as a golden year. Of course, one of the most accurate measures of a successful company is how it fares when times are hard. We may find out sooner than wed like.
As always, the winners were cho-sen using a mix of criteria includ-ing revenue and profit growth, market cap and share price growth, corporate responsibility, product innovation, global expan-sion and corporate accountability.
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