16 JUNE 2002



In conjunction with Nottingham Business School, MT asked Britain’s 10 largest public companies in 24 sectors to evaluate their peers. Participants rated each firm in their own sector (in one of which there were only nine players) on a scale of 0 to 10, zero representing poor, five average and 10 excellent. Performance was rated against nine criteria: quality of management; financial soundness; quality of products and/or services; ability to attract, develop and retain top talent; value as a long-term investment; capacity to innovate; quality of marketing; community and environmental responsibility; and use of corporate assets. Analysts at leading investment firms in the City were also polled. Three analyses were produced: a ranking of all 239 firms; a ranking of the 10 in any one sector (nine in one instance) across the nine categories; and league tables in each category. The academics were D Michael Brown (Nottingham Business School) and Stuart Laverick.



This year's position Last year's position Company name  
QUALITY OF MANAGEMENT
1 (60) AstraZeneca 8.6
2 (1) BP 8.5
3 (6) Tesco 8.5
FINANCIAL SOUNDNESS
1 (3) Shell Transport & Trading 8.9
2 (5) HSBC 8.7
3 (50) Morrison, W 8.7
QUALITY OF GOODS & SERVICES
1 (12) AstraZeneca 9.0
2 (6) GlaxoSmithKline 8.4
3 (2) Shell Transport & Trading 8.3
ABILITY TO ATTRACT, DEVELOP and RETAIN TOP TALENT
1 (2) BP 8.6
2 (8) Shell Transport & Trading 8.6
3 (4) Tesco 8.4
VALUE AS A LONG-TERM INVESTMENT
1 (2) Shell Transport & Trading 8.6
2 (16) BP 8.0
3 (6) Tesco 7.8
CAPACITY TO INNOVATE
1 (1) BSkyB 8.4
2 (-) ARM Holdings 8.3
3 (29) AstraZeneca 8.3
QUALITY OF MARKETING
1 (7) BSkyB 8.6
2 (1) GlaxoSmithKline 8.5
3 (-) easyJet 8.2
COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
1 (37) Shell Transport & Trading 7.8
2 (10) BP 7.4
3 (7) GlaxoSmithKline 7.3
USE OF CORPORATE ASSETS
1 (1) BP 7.9
2 (7) Shell Transport & Trading 7.8
3 (5) Tesco 7.7


 

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