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About MT's Britain’s Most Admired Companies

Providing a rare insight into the corporate reputations of Britain’s top companies, MT's Britain’s Most Admired Companies Awards (BMAC) is a celebration of the best in business practice. The first and only survey and awards of their type in the UK, each year Britain’s top companies and their bosses are asked to give their views on their nearest corporate rivals and to reveal what it takes to become the most admired.

A peer-review, it harnesses the opinions of the competition in an attempt to get to the heart of one of the most important but most difficult to quantify aspects of contemporary corporate power.
 
The awards are based on the findings of the Britain’s Most Admired Companies survey, which is sent by Nottingham Business School to board level individuals from 220 of the UK’s largest companies.
 
These 220 companies are made up of the 10 largest UK-based companies by market capitalisation across 22 different sectors. Respondents are asked to rate their peers on their performance across 9 key criteria, on a scale of 0 to 10 (0 representing poor, 5 average and 10 excellent).
 
Then each December, Management Today publish a list of the overall rankings accompanied by their own thoughtful insight in a special BMAC awards edition of the publication. The magazine and results are made available following an award ceremony held on the 1 December each year.

Key ranking criteria 

• Quality of management 
  
  
• Financial soundness 
  
  
• Quality of goods and services 
  
  
• Ability to attract, develop and retain top talent 
  
  
• Value as a long term investment 
  
  
• Capacity to innovate 
  
  
• Quality of marketing 
  
  
• Community and environmental responsibility
  
  
• Use of corporate assets

Past Winners

2005 – Tesco
2004 – Cadbury Schweppes

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