Mobile telecommunications company Vodacom has been judged to
have the best reputation of South Africa's top 20 Johannesburg
Stock Exchange-listed companies.
The Reputation Institute says Vodacom scored 74.17 out of a possible 100 points in the 2013 RepTrak Pulse survey, which was a 6.64-point improvement on its performance last year.
Old Mutual was ranked second highest and Pick n Pay third.
Telkom did not feature in the top 20 companies in this year's reputation survey. It was 17th last year.
The survey, which was conducted in January and February, collected over 3-thousand ratings from economically active respondents in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape.
Almost all respondents had medium to high education levels.
The top 20 companies were:
1. Vodacom (74.17 points);
2. Old Mutual (69.94)
3. PicknPay (69.38)
4. Sasol (69.05)
5. MTN (68.93)
6. Sanlam (68.89)
7. Standard Bank (68.50)
8. ABSA (66.22)
9. Nedbank (65.42);
10. Shoprite (64.01)
11. SABMiller (59.97)
12. Bidvest (59.38)
13. Barloworld (53.55)
14. Imperial Holdings (53.02)
15. Anglo American (51.90);
16.AngloGold Ashanti (50.41)
17. BHP Billiton (49.90)
18. British AmericanTobacco (48.98)
19.Massmart (48.29)
20.Goldfields (48.18).
