Nike ranked 23rd on Fast Company 's The World's Most
Innovative Companies 2011. The business magazine particularly praised its
environmental design efforts.
Its profile on Nike stated, “Nike rescued 13 million
used plastic bottles, melted them down, and wove them into polyester. Then they
created high-performance jerseys (eight bottles per shirt) worn by nine teams
during last summer's World Cup. The company also released the Environmental
Apparel Design Tool, which helps industry designers make environmentally
friendly decisions. 'We want to collaborate,' says Lorrie Vogel, general
manager of Nike's Considered team, which oversees the company's sustainability
efforts. 'To learn how to thrive in a resource-restrained world, we have to
hold everyone to the same standards.'
The full list includes:
1.
Apple
2.
Twitter
3.
Facebook
4.
Nissan
5.
Groupon
6.
Google
7.
Dawning Information Industry
8.
Netflix
9.
Zynga
10.
Epocrates
11.
Trader Joe's –
12.
Arm –
13.
Burberry –
14.
Kosaka Smelting And Refining –
15.
Foursquare –
16.
Espn –
17.
Turner Sports –
18.
Huawei 5
19.
Intel 14
20.
Syncardia –
21.
Donorschoose.Org –
22.
Ebay –
23.
Nike 13
24.
Linkedin –
25.
Wieden + Kennedy –
26.
Yandex –
27.
Amazon 2
28.
Opening Ceremony –
29.
Ibm 18
30.
Amyris –
31.
Double Negative –
32.
Kaspersky Lab –
33.
Pepsico –
34.
Univision –
35.
Snohetta –
36.
Marks & Spencer –
37.
Microsoft 48
38.
Solarcity –
39.
Shaadi.Com
40.
Voxiva
41.
Cisco
42.
Enerkem
43.
Samsung
44.
Pandora
45.
GE
46.
Changchun Dacheng Industrial Group
47.
Azul
48.
Stamen Design
49.
Fx
50.
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