The 2010 IW 50 Best Manufacturing Companies
The IW 50 Best Manufacturing Companies is IndustryWeek's report on the 50
best publicly held U.S. manufacturing companies. To identify the top performing manufacturers, the IW formula factored in
revenue growth and profit margin over the past three years, with 2009
results weighted most heavily. We also considered three-year performance in
four other financial ratios: inventory turns, asset turnover, return on
assets and return on equity. This list was published in the July 2010 issue of IndustryWeek .
IW 50 Rank Company Revenue ($millions) Revenue Growth (%) Profit Margin (%)
1
Lorillard Inc.
$5,233
24.48
18.12
2
Western Digital Corp.
$7,453
-7.69
6.31
3
Apple Inc.
$36,537
12.49
15.61
4
Hansen Natural Corp.
$1,143
10.59
18.26
5
Philip Morris International Inc.
$62,080
-2.45
10.55
6
Microsoft Corp.
$58,437
-3.28
24.93
7
PepsiCo Inc.
$43,232
-0.04
13.83
8
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
$15,327
-0.02
15.64
9
Guess Inc.
$2,128
1.68
11.57
10
First Solar Inc.
$2,066
65.79
30.98
11
Herman Miller Inc.
$1,630
-18.99
4.17
12
Flowers Foods Inc.
$2,601
7.7
5.14
13
Lockheed Martin Corp.
$45,189
5.75
6.69
14
CF Industries Holdings Inc.
$2,608
-33.48
17.19
15
Coach Inc.
$3,230
1.56
19.3
16
Exxon Mobil Corp.
$303,443
-34.92
6.48
17
Precision Castparts Corp.
$6,828
-0.35
15.3
18
Kinetic Concepts Inc.
$1,993
6.11
11.48
19
Kellogg Co.
$12,575
-1.93
9.61
20
NewMarket Corp.
$1,530
-5.4
10.61
21
IBM Corp.
$95,759
-7.6
14.02
22
Idexx Laboratories Inc.
$1,032
0.74
11.85
23
Apogee Enterprises Inc.
$926
4.95
5.51
24
Polaris Industries Inc.
$1,566
-19.63
6.45
25
Joy Global Inc.
$3,598
5.25
12.64
26
Varian Medical Systems Inc.
$2,214
6.97
14.41
27
Campbell Soup Co.
$7,586
-5.15
9.7
28
Alliant Techsystems Inc.
$4,583
9.86
3.38
29
Terra Industries Inc.
$1,581
-45.31
11.29
30
McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc.
$5,952
-6.35
12.6
31
FMC Technologies Inc.
$4,405
-3.2
8.25
32
General Dynamics Corp.
$31,981
9.15
7.49
33
Murphy Oil Corp.
$19,012
-30.9
4.41
34
Raytheon Co.
$24,881
7.37
7.94
35
Hasbro Inc.
$4,068
1.15
9.22
36
Nike Inc.
$19,176
2.95
7.75
37
Intuitive Surgical Inc.
$1,052
20.26
22.11
38
Chevron Corp.
$168,320
-37.11
6.28
39
Valmont Industries Inc.
$1,787
-6.33
8.62
40
Mosaic Co.
$10,298
4.95
22.82
41
Rockwell Collins Inc.
$4,470
-6.27
13.29
42
Cisco Systems Inc.
$36,117
-8.66
16.98
43
Sanderson Farms Inc.
$1,790
3.82
4.6
44
Ecolab Inc.
$5,901
-3.86
7.1
45
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
$19,115
-1.55
10.43
46
Gilead Sciences Inc.
$7,011
31.4
37.45
47
Dell Inc.
$52,902
-13.42
2.71
48
Coca-Cola Co.
$30,990
-2.99
22.28
49
Hewlett-Packard Co.
$114,552
-3.22
6.69
50
Donaldson Co. Inc.
$1,869
-16.3
7.06
