Can YOU name the top 50 global brands?

It’s hard to differentiate your brand in a small market.

Imagine how difficult it can be to establish your brand in today’s world-wide environment.

Now imagine how more complicated that has become with the Internet diluting everybody’s attention span to that of a walnut.  Now you have an idea of how hard it can be to get a new brand noticed in the competitive world-wide field.

Especially when other companies have had decades-upon-decade head start on you.

Here is a list of the TOP 50 BEST GLOBAL PUBLICALLY-TRADED BRANDS FOR 2009, as ranked by their overall brand value in the marketplace.  

The first ten are fairly easy to pinpoint by anybody who’s been paying attention to anything around them:

1. Coca-Cola
2. IBM
3. Microsoft
4. General Electric
5. Nokia
6. McDonald’s
7. Google
8. Toyota
9. Intel
10. DisneyAnd the rest are a bit more interesting where they fell:
11. Hewlett-Packard
12. Mercedes-Benz
13. Gillette
14. Cisco
15. BMW
16. Louis Vuitton
17. Marlboro
18. Honda
19. Samsung
20. Apple
21. H&M
22. American Express
23. Pepsi
24. Oracle
25. Nescafe
26. Nike
27. SAP
28. Ikea
29. Sony
30. Budweiser
31. UPS
32. HSBC
33. Canon
34. Kellogg’s
35. Dell
36. Citibank
37. JP Morgan
38. Goldman Sachs
39. Nintendo
40. Reuters
41. Gucci
42. Philips
43. Amazon
44. L’oreal
45. Accenture
46. eBay
47. Siemens
48. Heinz
49. Ford
50. Zara

More interesting than how many of these global brands could you name – how many of these brands do you touch or interact with on a daily basis as part of your everyday life?