Britain's Most Admired Companies: Bricks and mortar win the day
Chaired by the colourful but savvy entrepreneur Tony Pidgley, housebuilder Berkeley Group has put the blue-chip corporate names in the shade to win the accolade of Britain's Most Admired Company 2011. Andrew Saunders reports.
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Despite the fact that the annual Britain's Most Admired Companies Awards have been going from strength to strength for over two decades, 2011 still manages to be a year of firsts for the nation's most respected ranking of peer plaudits in business.
For starters, we've got a new kind of winner from a sector that has never topped the poll before, and a brand-new Most Admired Leader, to boot. We've also included a range of new companies and sectors, thanks to some subtle tweaks to the methodology that better reflect the modern corporate landscape in all its heterogeneous glory.
