Google Tops World’s Most Valuable Brands List
By Anna Johnson on May 5th, 2009For the third year in a row, Google is the world’s most valuable brand, according to Millward Brown’s annual list and report of the world’s most valuable brands, ‘BrandZ’.
The Google brand is valued at $100 billion. Its value has risen 16 percent over the $86 billion it was worth in 2008.
Other tech brands to make the BrandZ list were Microsoft, which is the world’s second most valuable brand, worth $76.2 billion (8 percent above its value last year) and Apple, which at number 6, is worth $63.1 billion.
Here are the top 25:
- Google ($100 B)
- Microsoft ($76.2 B)
- Coca-Cola ($67.6 B)
- IBM ($66.6 B)
- McDonalds ($66.5 B)
- Apple ($66.1 B)
- China Mobile ($61.2 B)
- GE ($59.7 B)
- Vodafone ($53.7 B)
- Marlboro ($49.4 B)
- Walmart ($41 B)
- ICBC ($35 B)
- Nokia ($35.1 B)
- Toyota ($29.9 B)
- UPS ($27.8 B)
- Blackberry ($27.4 B)
- HP ($26.7 B)
- BMW ($23.9 B)
- SAP ($23.6 B)
- Disney ($23.1 B)
- Tesco ($22.9 B)
- Gillete ($22.9 B)
- Intel ($22.8 B)
- China Construction Bank ($22.8 B)
- Oracle ($21.4 B)
For more information visit Brandz.
