Published: 01 Dec 2011
Last Updated: 04 Oct 2016
2011 was one of the toughest years for a long time for many of our winners - but it has still been a year of firsts, most notably the first time our list has been topped by a housebuilder. Here's the full list of Britain's Most Admired Companies 2011:
Company | Total | |
1 | Berkeley Group | 72.95 |
2 | Diageo | 72.35 |
3 | Rotork | 71.60 |
4 | Aggreko | 71.20 |
5 | Derwent London | 70.90 |
6 | Paddy Power | 70.29 |
7 | Royal Dutch Shell | 70.24 |
8 | Unilever | 69.29 |
9 | Rolls-Royce | 68.35 |
10 | Shaftesbury | 68.20 |
11 | Stagecoach | 68.1 |
12 | BASF (UK) | 67.8 |
13 | John Lewis Partnership | 67.8 |
14 | Morrison (Wm) | 67.3 |
15 | SABMiller | 67.2 |
16 | BSkyB | 67.2 |
17 | BG Group | 67.1 |
18 | McDonald’s Restaurants UK | 67.1 |
19 | Great Portland Estates | 66.6 |
20 | IBM (UK) | 66.4 |
21 | Experian Group | 66.2 |
22 | Telefónica 02 (UK) | 66.2 |
23 | Victrex | 66.1 |
24 | Vodafone | 66.0 |
25 | Telecity Gp. | 66.0 |
26 | Land Securities | 65.8 |
27 | Coca-Cola Enterprises | 65.8 |
28 | Babcock International | 65.6 |
29 | Bunzl | 65.2 |
30 | Carphone Warehouse | 65.2 |
31 | Balfour Beatty | 65.2 |
32 | InterContinental Hotels | 65.0 |
33 | Marks & Spencer | 64.9 |
34 | Spirax Sarco Engineering | 64.8 |
35 | UPS (UK) | 64.6 |
36 | Alliance Boots | 64.5 |
37 | Croda International | 64.5 |
38 | Weir Group | 64.4 |
39 | Autonomy | 64.4 |
40 | InBev (UK) | 64.4 |
41 | Tesco | 64.3 |
42 | Johnson Matthey | 64.2 |
43 | Intertek | 63.8 |
44 | IG Group | 63.8 |
45 | Homeserve | 63.4 |
46 | Associated British Foods | 63.4 |
47 | Persimmon | 63.3 |
48 | Britvic | 63.3 |
49 | Wetherspoon (JD) | 62.9 |
50 | Kerry Group | 62.7 |
51 | Syngenta | 62.6 |
52 | Kuehne + Nagel (UK) | 62.1 |
53 | Centrica | 62.0 |
54 | Ultra Electronics | 62.0 |
55 | C&C Group | 62.0 |
56 | Sage Group | 61.8 |
57 | Pearson | 61.7 |
58 | Virgin Media | 61.7 |
59 | Kingfisher | 61.5 |
60 | Hammerson | 61.5 |
61 | Pennon Group | 61.2 |
62 | Admiral | 61.0 |
63 | ASDA (UK) | 60.9 |
64 | Capita Group | 60.9 |
65 | Hargreaves Lansdown | 60.9 |
66 | Sainsbury (J) | 60.8 |
67 | AMEC | 60.8 |
68 | Petrofac | 60.7 |
69 | Schroders | 60.6 |
70 | Capital & Counties | 60.5 |
71 | Aldi | 60.4 |
72 | HSBC | 60.3 |
73 | Carlsberg (UK) | 60.3 |
74 | Fidessa | 60.1 |
75 | Melrose | 59.8 |
76 | Aveva Group | 59.8 |
77 | Computacenter | 59.7 |
78 | Bellway | 59.5 |
79 | British Land Company | 59.4 |
80 | Serco Group | 59.4 |
81 | Inmarsat | 59.3 |
82 | William Hill | 59.3 |
83 | Carillion | 59.2 |
84 | Bwin.Party Digital | 59.0 |
85 | Bovis Homes | 58.9 |
86 | BT Group | 58.9 |
87 | London & Stamford Property | 58.8 |
88 | National Grid | 58.7 |
89 | Betfair | 58.6 |
90 | St James’s Place Capital | 58.4 |
91 | Senior | 58.4 |
92 | Carnival | 58.3 |
93 | Tate & Lyle | 58.2 |
94 | Aberdeen Asset Management | 58.1 |
95 | Domino’s Pizza (UK) | 58.0 |
96 | Kier Group | 57.9 |
97 | Inchcape | 57.9 |
98 | RSA Insurance | 57.9 |
99 | Glanbia | 57.6 |
100 | Standard Chartered | 57.6 |
101 | Barr (AG) | 57.4 |
102 | G4S | 57.3 |
103 | Meggitt | 57.2 |
104 | Prudential | 57.2 |
105 | Chemring Group | 57.1 |
106 | Marston’s | 56.9 |
107 | Ryanair | 56.8 |
108 | Arriva | 56.7 |
109 | Holidaybreak* | 56.7 |
110 | IMI | 56.5 |
111 | Barratt Developments | 56.5 |
112 | Tullow Oil | 56.4 |
113 | Yule Catto & Co | 56.4 |
114 | Pets at Home | 56.3 |
115 | Go-Ahead Gp | 56.3 |
116 | Ashmore Group | 56.1 |
117 | WH Smith | 56.1 |
118 | Smiths Group | 56.0 |
119 | DHL (UK) | 55.9 |
120 | eastJet | 55.9 |
121 | Wickes | 55.8 |
122 | Scottish & Southern Energy* | 55.7 |
123 | Sportingbet | 55.6 |
124 | Legal & General Group | 55.6 |
125 | BAE Systems | 55.5 |
126 | Compass Group | 55.5 |
127 | BBC | 55.4 |
128 | Ocado | 55.4 |
129 | ICAP | 55.4 |
130 | Banco Santander | 55.3 |
131 | Costain Group | 55.2 |
132 | Misys | 55.2 |
133 | Molson Coors Brewing Co. (UK) | 55.2 |
134 | Redrow | 55.1 |
135 | Debenhams | 54.8 |
136 | Nationwide Building Society | 54.8 |
137 | Cobham | 54.7 |
138 | CEVA Logistics UK | 54.6 |
139 | Greencore Group | 54.5 |
140 | Halfords | 54.4 |
141 | Logica | 54.3 |
142 | Provident Financial | 54.2 |
143 | Fenner | 54.2 |
144 | IND Direct | 54.1 |
145 | Segro | 54.1 |
146 | International Airlines Group | 54.0 |
147 | National Express | 54.0 |
148 | Dunelm | 54.0 |
149 | Greene King | 53.9 |
150 | Whitbread | 53.8 |
151 | Mothercare | 53.7 |
152 | FirstGroup | 53.7 |
153 | Edrington Group | 53.6 |
154 | GKN | 53.4 |
155 | Invensys | 53.3 |
156 | Reed Elsevier | 53.2 |
157 | Co-operative Group | 53.1 |
158 | Barclays | 53.1 |
159 | Wincanton | 53.0 |
160 | Mitchells & Butlers | 52.9 |
161 | Keller Group | 52.8 |
162 | Euromoney Institutional Inv. | 52.7 |
163 | TNT (UK) | 52.6 |
164 | EDF Energy | 52.6 |
165 | Iceland | 52.5 |
166 | Lidl | 52.4 |
167 | Talk Talk | 52.4 |
168 | Elementis | 52.3 |
169 | United Utilities | 52.2 |
170 | Taylor Wimpey | 52.2 |
171 | Gondola Group | 52.2 |
172 | United Business Media* | 52.1 |
173 | Co-operative Bank | 52.0 |
174 | Seven Trent | 51.9 |
175 | Amlin | 51.9 |
176 | Standard Life | 51.8 |
177 | Lookers | 51.8 |
178 | Tui Travel | 51.5 |
179 | Man | 51.3 |
180 | Cookson | 51.2 |
181 | E.on UK | 51.1 |
182 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 50.9 |
183 | International Power | 50.9 |
184 | Wood (J) | 50.9 |
185 | Poundland | 50.9 |
186 | Restaurant Group | 50.7 |
187 | Galliford Try | 50.5 |
188 | 3i | 50.2 |
189 | Informa | 50.0 |
190 | Laing O’Rourke | 50.0 |
191 | Capital Shopping Centres | 49.9 |
192 | Royal Bank of Scotland | 49.4 |
193 | Investec | 49.3 |
194 | Game Group | 49.3 |
195 | Daily Mail & General Trust | 49.0 |
196 | Network Rail | 48.9 |
197 | BP | 48.8 |
198 | Filtrona | 48.8 |
199 | Dixons Retail | 48.8 |
200 | Premier Oil | 48.7 |
201 | Morgan Sindall | 48.7 |
202 | Rentokil Initial | 48.6 |
203 | ITV | 48.5 |
204 | Boot (Henry) | 48.3 |
205 | Ladbrokes | 48.2 |
206 | Wilkinson | 47.4 |
207 | Yorkshire Building Society | 47.2 |
208 | Lloyds Banking Group | 47.2 |
209 | Ineos | 47.0 |
210 | Avis Europe | 46.7 |
211 | Resolution | 46.6 |
212 | Aviva | 46.6 |
213 | QinetiQ Group | 46.5 |
214 | Old Mutual | 46.3 |
215 | Bakkavor | 46.0 |
216 | Colt | 45.8 |
217 | Tata Steel (UK) | 45.5 |
218 | npower | 45.2 |
219 | Cairn Energy | 45.1 |
220 | Home Retail Group | 44.0 |
221 | Rank Group* | 43.4 |
222 | 888 Holdings | 42.7 |
223 | Carpetright | 42.6 |
224 | Kesa Electricals | 40.7 |
225 | City Link | 40.6 |
226 | Mecom Group | 40.0 |
227 | Essar Energy | 40.0 |
228 | Cable & Wireless Worldwide | 39.9 |
229 | Charter | 38.6 |
230 | Punch Taverns | 38.4 |
231 | tote | 37.7 |
232 | Premier Foods | 37.1 |
233 | Gala Coral | 36.4 |
234 | Royal Mail Group | 35.9 |
235 | Cable & Wireless Communications | 35.7 |
236 | Enterprise Inns | 34.4 |
237 | Millennium & Copthorne | 34.3 |
238 | Thomas Cook Group | 33.8 |