| 1 | Apple | Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne | 1976 |
| 2 | Microsoft | Bill Gates, Paul Allen | 1975 |
| 3 | Google | Larry Page, Sergey Brin | 1998 |
| 4 | Amazon | Jeff Bezos | 1994 |
| 5 | McDonald's | Richard and Maurice McDonald, Ray Kroc | 1940 |
| 6 | NVIDIA | Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem | 1993 |
| 7 | Visa | Dee Hock | 1958 |
| 8 | Facebook | Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes | 2004 |
| 9 | Oracle | Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates | 1977 |
| 10 | Tencent | Pony Ma | 1998 |
| 11 | Chanel | Coco Chanel | 1909 |
| 12 | Louis Vuitton | Louis Vuitton | 1854 |
| 13 | Intel | Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore | 1968 |
| 14 | Nike | Phil Knight, Bill Bowerman | 1964 |
| 15 | Cisco | Leonard Bosack, Sandy Lerner | 1984 |
| 16 | GE (General Electric) | Thomas Edison | 1892 |
| 17 | Mercedes-Benz | Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler | 1926 |
| 18 | Oracle | Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, Ed Oates | 1977 |
| 19 | Verizon | Bell Atlantic, GTE | 2000 |
| 20 | IBM | Charles Ranlett Flint | 1911 |
| 21 | BMW | Franz Josef Popp | 1916 |
| 22 | SAP | Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira | 1972 |
| 23 | Marlboro | Philip Morris | 1924 |
| 24 | Budweiser | Adolphus Busch | 1876 |
| 25 | Visa | Dee Hock | 1958 |
| 26 | Walmart | Sam Walton | 1962 |
| 27 | American Express | Henry Wells, William G. Fargo | 1850 |
| 28 | Honda | Soichiro Honda | 1948 |
| 29 | Pepsi | Caleb Bradham | 1898 |
| 30 | Gucci | Guccio Gucci | 1921 |
| 31 | L’Oréal | Eugène Schueller | 1909 |
| 32 | Home Depot | Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank | 1978 |
| 33 | Hermès | Thierry Hermès | 1837 |
| 34 | Nescafé | Henri Nestlé | 1938 |
| 35 | Starbucks | Gordon Bowker, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl | 1971 |
| 36 | Accenture | Clarence DeLany | 1989 |
| 37 | Gillette | King C. Gillette | 1901 |
| 38 | Netflix | Reed Hastings, Marc Randolph | 1997 |
| 39 | Adobe | John Warnock, Charles Geschke | 1982 |
| 40 | Samsung | Lee Byung-chul | 1938 |
| 41 | Heineken | Gerard Adriaan Heineken | 1864 |
| 42 | Unilever | William Lever, James Lever | 1929 |
| 43 | Colgate | William Colgate | 1806 |
| 44 | Coca-Cola | John Stith Pemberton | 1886 |
| 45 | Rolex | Hans Wilsdorf, Alfred Davis | 1905 |
| 46 | Ford | Henry Ford | 1903 |
| 47 | Philips | Gerard Philips, Frederik Philips | 1891 |
| 48 | Panasonic | Konosuke Matsushita | 1918 |
| 49 | Ferrari | Enzo Ferrari | 1939 |
| 50 | Sony | Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita | 1946 |
