Management Today magazine’s Britain’s Most Admired Companies (BMAC) Awards 2013 features competing companies across 26 sectors marked each other out of ten across nine different criteria. These range from the firm’s ability to innovate and the quality of its marketing to its financial performance and the strength of its management team.
This process sets BMAC apart as the only ranking of its kind: nowhere else do you find competing firms voting on their gut feel about individual firms, or taking into consideration their general level of optimism or foreboding about the market.
And, once again, Britain’s Most Admired Company for 2013 is Diageo, the world’s largest premium brand drinks group. With net sales up 6% to £11.4bn in 2013, and an operating margin of over 30%, Diageo makes eight of the world’s 20 bestselling spirits – from Johnnie Walker, to Smirnoff and Tanqueray – and has now won the Most Admired crown three times, in 2008, 2012 and 2013.
Hospitality companies featuring in the total list of 247 include:
1 Diageo
22 Whitbread
37 Bunzl
38 IHG
40 Majestic Wine
42 McDonald’s Restaurants
54 Coca-Cola Enterprises
63 JD Wetherspoon
66 Domino’s Pizza UK
71 Hilton Hotels and Resorts
82 InBev (UK)
83 Marriott (UK & Ireland)
89 AG Barr
118 Greene King
122 Compass Group
130 Britvic
131 Carlsberg (UK)
140 Molson Coors Brewing Co (UK)
150 Restaurant group
151 Marston’s
166 Mitchells & butlers
178 Accor UK
184 Spirit Pub company
204 Fuller Smith & Turner
218 De Vere Group
235 Millennium & Copthorne
239 Best western GB
241 Enterprise Inns
242 Travelodge UK