Here’s how 4Ps B&M and ICMR got together to pick India’s best and the brightest companies of 2007

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The list of most admired is an exhaustive report card brought out in collaboration with the Indian Council for Market Research, on the reputations of respective Indian companies. The survey was conducted in different phases. We started with the S&P CNX 500 list. The NSE 500 were chosen as the base because of their broad-based benchmark of the Indian capital market for comparing portfolio returns vis-à-vis market returns. The S&P CNX includes only those companies which have a minimum listing record of six months and must have demonstrated high turnover and trading frequency. The list of companies represents about 90.30% of total market capitalisation and about 80.02% of the total turnover on the NSE as on March 30, 2007. Another reason for choosing the NSE 500 as base was that these companies are dis-aggregated into 72 industry indices viz. the S&P CNX Industry Indices. Industry weightages in the index reflect the industry weightages in the market.

Subsequently, the team diligently went through the list to shortlist the top 125 companies. These companies were further shortlisted by the 4Ps B&M editorial team based on the performance of the companies in their respective sectors over the last one year, including compiling and sorting the 100 companies’ financials for FY ’07 (Profit after Tax, Earning per Share, Sales & Market Capitalisation). The number of employees employed by respective companies in FY ’07 was also taken into consideration.

In the second phase, the ICMR team (led by Shivalee Kaushik & co-ordinated by Ankuna & Sakshi Syal) conducted an opinion poll of these 100 companies, based on the parameters of reliability, innovation, employability factor and investor confidence (investor in the company as a brand and as a company). The respondents were asked to rate each of the companies on a scale of 1-10 where 1 is low and 10 is high on each of the parameters. The sample size for this survey was 4000 respondents across the five major cities of India (namely Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai & Bangalore).

In the self-descriptive tables on the ensuing page, companies under each category have been sorted on the basis of PAT for FY ’07, market capitalisation as of 30th November 2007 and number of employees (based on their individual annual reports).

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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