List of most valuable brands

The following article lists the most valuable corporate brands in the world according to different estimates by Kantar Group, Interbrand, Brand Finance and Forbes. Factors that influence brand value are sales, market share, market capitalization, awareness of a brand, products, popularity, image, etc. Readers should note that lists like this, while informative, are somewhat subjective, as no single metric exists for determining valuation for brands.

Kantar list (2023) edit

The 10 most valuable company brands in 2023 according to Kantar.[1]

Rank Brand Country Brand value
(US$ millions)
1 Apple Inc.   United States 880,455
2 Google   United States 577,683
3 Microsoft   United States 501,856
4 Amazon.com   United States 468,737
5 McDonald's   United States 191,109
6 Visa Inc.   United States 169,092
7 Tencent   China 141,020
8 Louis Vuitton   France 124,822
9 Mastercard   United States 110,631
10 Coca-Cola   United States 106,109

Interbrand list (2022) edit

The 10 most valuable company brands in 2022 according to Interbrand.[2]

Rank Brand Country Brand value
(US$ millions)
1 Apple Inc.   United States 482,215
2 Microsoft Corp   United States 278,288
3 Amazon.com   United States 274,819
4 Google   United States 251,751
5 Samsung   South Korea 87,689
6 Toyota   Japan 59,757
7 Coca-Cola   United States 57,535
8 Mercedes-Benz   Germany 56,103
9 The Walt Disney Company   United States 50,325
10 Nike, Inc.   United States 50,289

Brand Finance list (2023) edit

The 10 most valuable company brands in 2021 according to Brand Finance.[3]

Rank Brand Country Brand value
(US$ millions)
1 Amazon.com   United States 299,280
2 Apple Inc.   United States 297,512
3 Google   United States 281,382
4 Microsoft Corp   United States 191,574
5 Walmart, Inc   United States 113,781
6 Samsung   South Korea 99,659
7 ICBC   China 69,545
8 Verizon Communications   United States 67,443
9 Tesla, Inc.   United States 66,207
10 TikTok   China 65,696

Forbes list (2020) edit

The 10 most valuable company brands in 2020 according to Forbes magazine.[4]

Rank Brand Country Brand value
(US$ billions)
1 Apple Inc.   United States 241.2
2 Google   United States 207.5
3 Microsoft Corp   United States 162.9
4 Amazon.com   United States 135.4
5 Facebook   United States 70.3
6 Coca-Cola   United States 64.4
7 The Walt Disney Company   United States 61.3
8 Samsung   South Korea 50.4
9 Louis Vuitton   France 47.2
10 McDonald's   United States 46.1

Most valuable brands over time edit

Top 10 since 2007 (Kantar) edit

The 10 most valuable brands every year since 2007 according to Kantar.

Year 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
2007[5] Google General Electric Microsoft Coca-Cola China Mobile Marlboro Walmart Citigroup IBM Toyota
2008[6] Google General Electric Microsoft Coca-Cola China Mobile IBM Apple Inc. McDonald's Nokia Marlboro
2009[7] Google Microsoft Coca-Cola IBM McDonald's Apple Inc. China Mobile General Electric Vodafone Marlboro
2010[8] Google IBM Apple Inc. Microsoft Coca-Cola McDonald's Marlboro China Mobile General Electric Vodafone
2011[9] Apple Inc. Google IBM McDonald's Microsoft Coca-Cola AT&T Marlboro China Mobile General Electric
2012[10] Apple Inc. IBM Google McDonald's Microsoft Coca-Cola Marlboro AT&T Verizon China Mobile
2013[11] Apple Inc. Google IBM McDonald's Coca-Cola AT&T Microsoft Marlboro Visa Inc. China Mobile
2014[12] Google Apple Inc. IBM Microsoft McDonald's Coca-Cola Visa Inc. AT&T Marlboro Amazon
2015[13] Apple Inc. Google Microsoft IBM Visa Inc. AT&T Verizon Coca-Cola McDonald's Marlboro
2016[14] Google Apple Inc. Microsoft AT&T Facebook Visa Inc. Amazon Verizon McDonald's IBM
2017[15] Google Apple Inc. Microsoft Amazon Facebook AT&T Visa Inc. Tencent IBM McDonald's
2018[16] Google Apple Inc. Amazon Microsoft Tencent Facebook Visa Inc. McDonald's Alibaba Group AT&T
2019[17] Amazon Apple Inc. Google Microsoft Visa Inc. Facebook Alibaba Group Tencent McDonald's AT&T
2020[18] Amazon Apple Inc. Microsoft Google Visa Inc. Alibaba Group Tencent Facebook McDonald's Mastercard
2021[19] Amazon Apple Inc. Google Microsoft Tencent Facebook Alibaba Group Visa Inc. McDonald's Mastercard
2022[20] Apple Inc. Google Amazon Microsoft Tencent McDonald's Visa Inc. Facebook Alibaba Group Louis Vuitton
2023[1] Apple Inc. Google Microsoft Amazon McDonald's Visa Inc. Tencent Louis Vuitton Mastercard Coca-Cola

2000 (Interbrand) edit

The 20 most valuable company brands in 2000 according to Interbrand.[21][22]

Rank Brand Country Brand value
(US$ millions)
Rank Brand Country Brand value
(US$ millions)
1 Coca-Cola   United States 72,537 11 Marlboro   United States 22,110
2 Microsoft   United States 70,196 12 Mercedes-Benz   Germany 21,104
3 IBM   United States 53,183 13 Hewlett-Packard   United States 20,572
4 Intel   United States 39,048 14 Cisco   United States 20,067
5 Nokia   Finland 38,528 15 Toyota   Japan 18,823
6 General Electric   United States 38,127 16 Citi   United States 18,809
7 Ford   United States 36,368 17 Gillette   United States 17,358
8 Walt Disney   United States 33,553 18 Sony   Japan 16,409
9 McDonald's   United States 27,859 19 American Express   United States 16,122
10 AT&T   United States 25,548 20 Honda   Japan 15,244

See also edit

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