Huawei named as one of world's most influential companies

Annually BusinessWeek, a leading international business magazine, honours companies who have devised winning strategies in their industries and are the ones with game-changing ideas, the greatest impact on consumers and the bold tactics rivals emulate. Others on the list include Saudi Aramco, Google, Microsoft and News Corp.

Ihab Ghattas, Assistant President, Middle East Region, Huawei Technologies, said:

"With our vision to enrich people's life through communications, Huawei is committed to bringing excellent services and innovative technologies to the world. We are delighted and extremely honored to be named as one of the world's most influential companies by Businessweek."

"This reaffirms our achievements as a reliable and innovative telecommunications and networking vendor with the ability to provide the best solutions to satisfy our customers' needs. Huawei will continue to focus on customer requirements to deliver excellence to telecom operators around the world," he added.

"When we entered the global market, customer-based innovation was and is still our topmost priority. Today we service more than one billion users through 35 of the world's top 50 telecom operators, providing high quality products and helping operators to lower the total cost of ownership," added Ghattas.

All companies on the list were evaluated by an advisory board of 14 academics, consultants, and industry leaders worldwide. The companies that emerged are those BusinessWeek believes have played a major role in the world of business over the past year and could shape the corporate landscape for years to come.