Fortune magazine's eighth annual "Global Most Admired Companies" survey put Xerox No. 2 in the "computers" industry category, behind only IBM. Xerox achieved an overall score of 6.98, up from its 2004 score of 6.75 and No. 4 ranking:

To compile the lists, the Hay Group, a management-consulting firm, surveyed more than 10,000 directors, executives, and managers at 357 companies around the world, in one of 30 industries. Each respondent was asked to rank the other companies in his or her industry on nine attributes -- innovation, use of corporate assets, globalness, quality of management, employee talent, financial soundness, long-term investment value, social responsibility, and quality of products and services -- on a scale of 1 to 10.