Nintendo tops BusinessWeek's list of 'The World's Best Companies'

by JC Fletcher { Oct 5th 2009 at 5:55PM }

We like Nintendo because it frequently makes video games we like to play, on systems we like to play them on. But how do business people -- the folks who don't see companies as entities that provide products or services, so much as numbers that go up and down in their stock portfolios -- feel about Nintendo?

According to BusinessWeek's list of "The World's Best Companies," pretty great! Nintendo is ranked first on the list of 40 companies with "a commitment to innovation, diversified portfolios, aggressive expansion, strong leadership, and a clear vision for the future," based on a metric involving growth rate and percentage of business done outside of the company's home region. In second and third place: Google and Apple.

Tags: business, businessweek, the-worlds-best-companies

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Special Agent Steve @ Oct 5th 2009 6:28PM

They must've got one of those fancy money printing machines from Nintendo.

MRLN @ Oct 5th 2009 6:38PM

I think Nintendo owns the world right now? That's pretty dedicated expansion.

Nook @ Oct 5th 2009 7:36PM

Putting my life long Nintendo consumer gripes aside. They really have turned that ship around. I remember reading in a NP back in 05 where Iwata said that if the Wii did not outperform the Cube by wide margins they would consider it a failure.

I highly respect N's call to go a different path when the DS was announced, and further cemented with the Wii, although recall shigsy wanted a motion controller for the Cube, but it couldn't handle it (they found they needed some duct tape and....nvrmnd)

Good business moves. Now get crackin on a new Zelda that won't make me ditch the series (and ultimately YOU N).

Oh, congrats - for whatever it's worth... a bunch of suits giving kudos to other suits on methods of extracting debt from you, the public.

ChuckBartowski @ Oct 5th 2009 8:32PM

Because bricking peoples consoles is a great business move.....

SoshiKitai @ Oct 5th 2009 9:30PM

At least they offer to fix it for free.

....or perhaps this is all a conspiracy to encourage people to buy a new Wii?
Perhaps the price drop wasn't just there to keep them miles ahead of the competition, it was made to give people a sense of anxiety that they must own a new one in case future mods screw their current console into oblivion!
Nooooooooooo!!!!