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TECHNOLOGY
Infosys, an Indian Information
Technology (IT) giant and country’s
second-largest software exporter
by revenue, has been ranked third
in the list of World’s Best Regarded
Company compiled by Forbes.
Bearing a title ‘Asian Invasion’ in the
Forbes list, the American business
magazine said that while 59 of
250 companies listed are based
in the United States, the following
three companies are from Japan,
China, and India, with a total of 82
companies from the three countries.
The first position in the list was
bagged by the American financial
services company Visa, the financial
services company and Italian
carmaker Ferrari is ranked second.
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Bengaluru-headquartered Infosys
outdid American multinational
technology company Apple;
Automation company Siemens; Mass
media company Walt Disney, and
others for the third position.
In the year 2018, Infosys, which has
taken numerous steps in terms of
skilling its workforce, bagged 31st
position in the list. Previously, the
company was ranked at the 205th
position in the list of Best Employers
for New Grads 2019. In the
Forbes’ 2018 list of Top 100 digital
companies, Infosys was ranked 44
and ranked 46 in the top multinational
performers in 2017.
Infosys was founded in 1981 by
N.R. Narayana Murthy in 1981. In
the Fiscal Year 2019, the IT giant
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recorded revenues of $11.6 billion. The
company is listed on the Bombay Stock
Exchange (BSE) and the New York
Stock Exchange (NYSE). The company
has recorded the workforce of 204,107
employees and 1,279 clients, as of
March 2019.
The Indian companies managed to clinch
a position in the Forbes list of World’s
Best Regarded Companies include Tata
Consultancy Services (ranked 22), Tata
Motors (ranked 31), Tata Steel (ranked
105), Larsen & Toubro (ranked 115),
Mahindra and Mahindra (ranked 117),
HDFC (ranked 135), and Bajaj Finserv
(ranked 143). The IT giant Wipro stood
at 168 in the list.
The companies in the top 10 rankings
are Visa, Ferrari, Infosys, Netflix, Paypal,
Microsoft, Walt Disney, Toyota Motors,