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The 25 Best Companies in America

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For the full article: http://mot.ly/Y8wfeH -- After analyzing over 1,700 companies, we've compiled our list of "The 25 Best Companies in America."

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#1 Cummins (NYSE: CMI)

Cummins is a leader in the design and manufacture of world-class, high-performance engines for trucks, buses, light-duty vehicles, and heavy equipment. It also produces power generation equipment like diesel generators, emissions solutions, and fuel systems.

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#2 Teradata (NYSE: TDC)Teradata is one of the world's most-respected names when it comes to handling, synthesizing, and analyzing information. Combining traditional data warehousing with advanced tools for analysis has kicked up growth and returns on capital in recent years.

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#3 Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL)A full quarter of Colgate-Palmolive's approximately 40,000 employees have been with the company for more than 20 years. That remarkable loyalty is a product of the company's values – caring, global teamwork, and continuous improvement – as well as its commitment to generous benefits and a healthy work-life balance.

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#4 Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)Google's mission is to organize the world's information, and make it universally accessible and useful. It offers the most popular search (Google), email (Gmail), mobile operating system (Android), and video website (YouTube) in the world.

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#5 Skyworks (Nasdaq: SWKS)Skyworks Solutions' chips, which are used in mobile devices, cars, medical devices, and military supplies, refine and amplify messy real-world data like radio waves before passing along a cleaner, stronger signal.

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#6 Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB)One of the first biotechnology companies, Biogen invents and markets vital drugs that target unmet medical needs. It sells three drugs that treat multiple sclerosis, while also possessing a streamlined product pipeline.

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#7 Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM)Akamai is making the Internet a better place by removing bottlenecks that would otherwise brake traffic. Employees are inspired by the company's mission, close teamwork, and generous benefits, which include unlimited vacation time.

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#8 Lincoln Electric (Nasdaq: LECO)For 79 straight years, this welding materials manufacturer has paid its work force an annual bonus – last year averaging nearly $34,000 per worker. No one has been laid off for more than 65 years.

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#9 Costco (Nasdaq: COST)Membership retailer Costco has defied Wall Street "wisdom" through generosity to employees and devotion to customers, making investors rich along the way. Costco has turned the traditional retail model on its head.

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#10 Under Armour (NYSE: UA)Under Armour designs and sells high-performance athletic apparel and footwear. Sales have tripled in just the past five years as demand grows for its branded clothing with unique properties for keeping athletes dry

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#11 Coach (NYSE: COH)Coach, a leading marketer of fine accessories, is the company that its competitors aspire to be. Quality goods, limited locations, and luxury prices underlie Coach's fierce commitment to its aspirational brand.

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#12 Whole Foods (Nasdaq: WFM)Whole Foods Market disrupted a traditionally low-growth, low-margin sector: grocery retail. Embracing the "shared fate" of its stakeholders has been core to the company's values – and competitive advantage – since its beginning.

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#13 PepsiCo (NYSE: PEPPepsiCo manufactures and sells 22 beverage, snack, and food brands, including Pepsi (currently ranked the 22nd most valuable brand in the world), Quaker Oats, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, and Gatorade. It's a high return-on-capital business that's growing at home and around the world.)

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#14 Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF.B)Brown-Forman has more than 25 brands in its portfolio of wines and spirits, the most popular of which is Jack Daniels, the largest-selling American whiskey brand in the world by volume.

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#15 PVH (NYSE: PVH)PVH Corp designs and markets popular apparel under brand names including Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Van Heusen. The apparel business is notorious for poor labor conditions, but PVH has been methodically improving its suppliers' factories in Asia and around the world.

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#16 Cirrus Logic (Nasdaq: CRUS)Fabless semiconductor maker Cirrus Logic primarily designs high-end audio chips for use in Apple mobile devices. The company uses its strong knowledge of Apple's needs to profitably design new chips that make their way into more and more products.

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#17 Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN)Nordstrom is an unusual fashion retailer in that it combines two completely different target segments within a single business. Traditional Nordstrom stores focus on high-end luxury shopping, while Nordstrom Rack offers discounts.

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#18 Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK)Rockwell Automation is a leading provider of industrial automation equipment and services – solutions that help other manufacturers become more efficient. Its dedicated focus on automation has allowed it to out-innovate its bigger, more diversified competitors and deliver double or triple their returns on capital.

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#19 V.F. Corporation (NYSE: VFC)V.F. Corporation, one of the world's largest apparel companies, has an impressive array of popular brands, which include North Face, Timberland, Lee jeans, and Vans shoes.

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#20 Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX)Starbucks revolutionized the coffee experience, and created the United States market for gourmet coffee. In so doing, it built a top-notch brand and a coffee empire that generates impressive returns on capital.

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#21 Female Health (Nasdaq: FHCO)Female Health Company manufactures and sells the second-generation FC2 female condom. Its main customers are non-profits and government entities working to stop the spread of HIV in South Africa, central Africa, Brazil, and southeast Asia.

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#22 Clorox (NYSE: CLX)Clorox is best known for its bleach, but it also produces Liquid-Plumr, Kingsford charcoal, Glad garbage bags, and Brita water filters, among other brands.

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#23 Aflac (NYSE: AFL)Aflac provides coverage to more than 50 million people worldwide, insures roughly one out of every four households in Japan, and is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States.

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#24 IBM (NYSE: IBM)IBM is a giant in the information technology industry with a self-professed aim to "make the world work better." IBM's brand – currently ranked the 3rd most valuable in the world – supports a lucrative consulting business that allows the company to generate returns on capital north of 25%.

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#25 Intel (Nasdaq: INTC)Intel has been on the leading edge of microprocessor manufacturing since 1971. As the largest company in the business, Intel's chips are primarily used in PCs and servers, but the company hopes to soon crack the mobile market to provide the world's preferred processor for smartphones, tablets, and any other super-portable devices yet to come