The 25 Most Creative Companies In The World

By JENNA GOUDREAU

Move over, Google. According to a new ranking, Sanofi, FedEx, and Apple are among the world's most creative companies.

The analysis was done by ViewsOnYou, a site for employees and hiring departments to match up personality fit in businesses. Users log in with their LinkedIn and Facebook logins, review themselves by key personality traits — including measures of creativity, ambition, and appetite for risk — and then invite their peers to review them, too. Several standard psychological models are used to assess employees, such as the five-factor OCEAN model that measures openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

Tens of thousands of professionals around the world have reviewed themselves, creating employee snapshots for hundreds of large companies, including Google, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, and Walmart.

According to ViewsOnYou, the following 25 companies have the most creative employees in the world:

1. Sanofi Industry: Drug manufacturerHeadquarters: Paris, France

2. Toyota Motor Corporation Industry: Auto manufacturerHeadquarters: Toyota City, Japan

3. Grant Thornton Industry: Accounting servicesHeadquarters: Chicago, Ill., U.S.

4. QualcommIndustry: Communication equipmentHeadquarters: San Diego, Calif., U.S.

5. FedEx Corporation Industry: Delivery servicesHeadquarters: Memphis, Tenn., U.S.

6. Apple Industry: ElectronicsHeadquarters: Cupertino, Calif., U.S.

7. CBC Television Industry: Media Headquarters: Toronto, Canada

8. Universal Music Group Industry: MusicHeadquarters: Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.

9. Viacom Industry: Media/EntertainmentHeadquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.

10. Qatar Airways Company Industry: Travel servicesHeadquarters: Doha, Qatar

11. Costco Wholesale Corporation Industry: Discount goodsHeadquarters: Issaquah, Wash., U.S.

12. Smith & NephewIndustry: Medical equipmentHeadquarters: London, U.K.

13. Verizon Communications Industry: Telecom servicesHeadquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.

14. Cathay Pacific Industry: Travel servicesHeadquarters: Lantau, Hong Kong

15. Virgin GroupIndustry: Diversified travel, telecom, financial servicesHeadquarters: London, U.K.

16. Intel Corporation Industry: TechnologyHeadquarters: Santa Clara, Calif., U.S.

17. Colgate-Palmolive Company
Industry: Consumer goodsHeadquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.

18. Marks and SpencerIndustry: Department storesHeadquarters: London, U.K.

19. The Boeing Company Industry: Aerospace and defenseHeadquarters: Chicago, Ill., U.S.

20. Eli Lilly and Company Industry: Drug manufacturerHeadquarters: Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.

21. Warner Music Group Industry: MusicHeadquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.

22. News CorpIndustry: MediaHeadquarters: New York, N.Y., U.S.

23. Volvo Car Corporation Industry: Auto manufacturerHeadquarters: Gothenburg, Sweden

24. Alcatel-Lucent Industry: Communication equipmentHeadquarters: Paris, France 

25. Merck & Co.Industry: Drug manufacturerHeadquarters: Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.

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