Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Best Employers to Work For

Source : BusinessWeek

BEST EMPLOYERS
1 Walt Disney
2 Lockheed Martin
3 Deloitte & Touche
4 Goldman, Sachs
5 Enterprise Rent-A-Car
6 U.S. Department of State
7 Raytheon
8 General Electric
9 JPMorgan Investment Bank
10 Abbott Laboratories
11 Verizon Communications
12 Ernst & Young
13 Google
14 National Instruments
15 KPMG LLP
16 L'Oreal
17 Bain & Co.
18 Merck & Co.
19 Ameriprise Financial
20 Accenture
21 Pepsi Bottling Group
22 Lehman Brothers
23 Wells Fargo & Co.
24 UPS
25 Vanguard
26 AT&T
27 Eli Lilly and Co.
28 MTV Networks
29 Philip Morris USA
30 Ferguson Enterprises
31 BP America
32 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
33 Federated Department Stores
34 Grant Thornton
35 SunTrust Banks
36 Shell Oil
37 The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies
38 Peace Corps
39 U.S. Internal Revenue Service
40 Booz Allen Hamilton
41 U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
42 CapGemini
43 Teach for America
44 Kraft Foods
45 Northwestern Mutual
46 Southwest Airlines
47 Kohl's Department Stores
48 Comptroller of the Currency
49 Exelon
50 Progress Energy
51 U.S. Patent & Trademark
52 Protiviti
53 Navigant Consulting
54 C.H. Robinson
55 BearingPoint

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

World's Most Scenic Drives

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

Pacific Coast highway - byways.org/travel/state.html?CX_STATE=CA
The Road to Hana - hanamaui.com
The Icefields Parkway - canadianrockies.net/icepwy.html
The Road to the Isles - road-to-the-isles.org.uk
The Denali highway - icdc.com/~neubauer/denali.html
Austral Road - gochile.cl/Attr/html/caustral.asp
New Found Gap Road - smokymountaintoday.com/overlook.htm
Route 100 - letmeshowyouvermont.com/100-5.htm
The Ring Road - outh.is/klaustur.html

Some More:
Cairns to Broome - Australia
Sorrento to Salerno - Italy
LA to Oregon - US
Christchurch to Kingston - NewZealand
Cape Town to Richard's Bay - South Africa

Saturday, September 09, 2006

The World's 10 Biggest Retailers

With Sales in 2005 in USD

1. Wal-Mart Stores - $312bn

2. Carrefour - 93bn

3. Home Depot - 81bn

4. Tesco - 71bn

5. Metro Group - 69bn

6. Kroger - 61bn

7. Royal Ahold - 55bn

8. Costco - 53bn

9. Target - 53bn

10.Sears Holding - 49bn

Friday, September 01, 2006

The 10 Most Powerful Women in the World

Source: Forbes

#1 Angela Merkel - Chancellor,Germany
#2 Condoleezza Rice - Secretary of State, US
#3 Wu Yi - Vice Premier,China
#4 Indra Nooyi - Chief Executive-Designate, PepsiCo
#5 Anne Mulcahy - Chairman and Chief Executive, Xerox
#6 Sallie Krawcheck - Chief Financial Officer, Citigroup
#7 Patricia Woertz - Chief Executive, Archer Daniels Midland
#8 Anne Lauvergeon - Chairman, Areva
#9 Brenda Barnes - Chairman and Chief Executive, Sara Lee
#10 Zoe Cruz - Co-President, Morgan Stanley