Best-managed LATAM companies: Best corporate governance by country

Best-managed LATAM companies: High standards are the exception

Best-managed LATAM companies: High standards are the exception

Best-managed LATAM companies: Overall

Best-managed LATAM companies: Most convincing and coherent by country

Best-managed LATAM companies: Most convincing and coherent by sector

Best-managed LATAM companies: Methodology 

Euromoney’s third Latin American company ranking is based on a survey of market analysts at major banks and research institutes in Latin America. We received 92 replies (2007: 63 replies). Respondents were asked to nominate the top three companies in each of the countries or sectors they covered, bearing in mind market strength, profitability, growth potential, quality of management and earnings. Points were awarded on a scale of 4:3:2. for first-, second- and third-place nominations respectively. Companies’ results are presented as a percentage of total points received in each category, together with the number of companies that received points in each category. In total, we received nominations for 341 companies for all categories.

Several other countries and industry sectors were included in the survey, but did not receive enough responses to be published.

If you would like more information about the poll, please contact Andrew Newby by email: anewby@euromoneyplc.com.

Argentina
No. of companies cited: 11
2008 2007 Firm Score Sector
1 Tenaris 20.69% Iron and steel
2= Pampa Holding 13.79% Utilities
2= Telecom Argentina 13.79% Telecoms
4 Ternium 10.34% Iron and steel
Brazil
No. of companies cited: 33
2008 2007 Firm Score Sector
1 Vale (CVRD) 16.37% Metals and mining
2 Perdigão 11.50% Food and drink
3 CPFL Energia 6.64% Utilities
4 Lojas Renner 5.75% Retail
5 Bradesco 4.42% Banking and finance
Chile
No. of companies cited: 20
2008 2007 Firm Score Sector
1 Cencosud 15.00% Retail
Colombia
No. of companies cited: 10
2008 2007 Firm Score Sector
1 Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) 25.00% Utilities
2 Bancolombia 15.91% Banking and finance
Mexico
No. of companies cited: 19
2008 2007 Firm Score Sector
1 Cemex 15.38% Construction
2 Wal-Mart de México 12.31% Retail
3 Femsa 10.00% Food and drink
4 Grupo Modelo 7.69% Food and drink
5 Coca-Cola Femsa 6.15% Food and drink
Peru
No. of companies cited: 7
2008 2007 Firm Score Sector
1 Cia de Minas Buenaventura 35.00% Metals and mining
2 Credicorp 27.50% Banking and finance
3 Southern Copper 15.00% Metals and mining
4 Milpo 7.50% Metals and mining