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Apple tops ‘TopBrand Top 500 Global Brands List’ for the third consecutive time

Apple tops the list of the annual Management Top 250 ranking of America’s best-run companies as determined by the Wall Street Journal.

The “TopBrand 2024 Top 500 Global Brands List” has been unveiled by the TopBrand Union, a boutique high-end branding consultancy based in China. Apple ranked as defending champion with a brand value of US$1021.728 billion.

The tech giant has topped the list for three years running. Microsoft and Amazon ranked second and third with a brand value of $966.932 billion and $808.415 billion, respectively; Nvidia rose from 8th to 4th, with a brand value of $804.279 billion; Alphabet, Saudi Aramco, Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway, Meta, and UnitedHealth Group ranked 5th-10th.

In terms of countries, the United States has the largest number of companies (187) on the list, accounting for 37.4% with a total brand value of $16.80 trillion. The Top 10 brands are all American brands except for Saudi Aramco, and ExxonMobil, JPMorgan Chase, Eli Lilly, Costco, and Tesla have also entered the Top 20.

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Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.