10 Most Respected Companies In The World 2014

2. Amazon.com

The e-commerce behemoth may be gulping up brick and mortar businesses left and right, but Amazon.com’s customer-centric culture and super-convenience has won the company millions of shoppers worldwide. The company had a humble beginning as an online bookstore and  since then has expanded into selling software, digital content, apparel, furniture and electronic gadgets.

Thus Amazon’s ambitions show no signs of lessening; instead it recently jumped into the art market, and has started producing video, music, and literary content. Revenues are impressive, but the Street is growing impatient for Amazon to post big profits.

3. Google

Google continues to impress the world with its world class internet products. This internet search giant continues to record multi-billion dollar revenues year after year. Though it dropped a spot to Amazon.com this year, Google continues to find ways to make life easier through its mind-blowing products. It also seeks to blow minds with its innovative “moonshot projects,” like the production of driverless cars.

Google, which saw revenues climb about 22 percent in 2013, acquired among other things, a handful of robotics companies and Nest, the smart thermostat company last year. Google has and always had the ability to foresee market and that is the main reason behind it being a leader.