S
ome time ago a line of names of the highest income women was reported by a world famous magazine, Fortune. Among them there are those who get the top position of the most influential women in business. It is common practice for Fortune magazine to issue a special report about the ranking of the 50 most powerful women in business in the United States every year. This ranking is based on their ability to lead the company. This is an annual routine held by the leading financial magazine.


1.       Indra Nooyi,
PepsiCo's Chairman and CEO ranks first. For the past five years, Nooyi has always won the top position in Fortune magazine's most influential business woman, because this 54-year-old woman has been able to make PepsiCo project revenues of up to USD 60 billion. Nooyi can make the company's annual operational cost efficiency with savings of USD 400 million per year. While its stock market performance increased 12 percent since September 2009. For all of those achievements, last year Nooyi managed to reap revenues of USD 14 million. Nooyi is known as a role model for many women who have felt success. She is known as a person who has extensive insight in the business sector, and is often a speaker at the World Economic Forum and world class business seminars.


2.       Irene Rosenfeld,
The Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods finished second. She received compensation of USD 14,917,701 million with a salary of USD 1.3 million (Rp. 11.7 billion) and a bonus of USD 2.6 million (Rp. 23.4 billion). Her struggle in the battle between candy producers to acquire Cadbury for USD 19 billion resulted in controversy among shareholders, but it was sweet fruit and became one of the most successful acquisition processes in the business world, thus driving Kraft's revenue growth to reach USD 48 billion and providing opportunities for expansion into big new markets, like in India. This "Iron Woman" aged 57 years has a long career. Before entering the board of directors in 2006, he had become one of the directors of PepsiCo and headed the production leader of Frito-Lay for two years until finally winning the selection to become CEO of Kraft Foods in June 2006. In the past year, the total income was USD 26 million (Rp 234 billion).

3.       Patricia Woertz,
Chairman, President, and CEO Archer Daniels Midland, ranked third. A woman born in Pennsylvania in 1953 and graduated from Penn State University built her career in a major major company. However, now 240 main factories have been built which focus on agricultural and chemical products. Archer Daniels Midland has been named the biggest corn processing company, but now Woertz focuses on alternative fuel sources. Shareholders like this step and stock performance increased 13 percent in the past 12 months.
4.       Angela Baby,
The Chairman, President, and CEO of WellPoint took fourth place. WellPoint is a symbol of a wrong policy in health insurance when Braly has implemented its policies before this February 2010 Congress. He maintained a proposal for a 39 percent tariff increase in California, which finally ruled out. Health reform poses a big challenge for WellPoint, but the company is still the guarantor of more people in the United States than other companies so that it provides a huge profit for the company.





5.       Andrea Jung,
Avon Products Chairman and CEO is in fifth position. In December 2009, Jung entered into one of Apple's board of directors, a rare and prestigious role given by women. Jung was also included in General Electric's board of directors. However, Avon had a disadvantage, its income and income declined last year, when many companies had begun to recover from the effects of the crisis.









6.       Ellen Kullman,
DuPont Chairman and CEO of sixth place. Her name is on the list of influential women because she managed to save the giant chemical company two years ago when the recession hit the world. This is evidenced by the many requests for Teflon and paint products. As the area of growth changed, he then introduced business, a step forward paid for by economic recovery. Sales increased across businesses, after DuPont had time to reduce its employees. However, now the company is recruiting employees.
7.       Gini Rometty,
Senior Vice President, Group Executive, Sales, Marketing and Strategy IBM is in seventh position. As a global global sales leader, Rometty is calculated to be able to bring in IBM's revenue, profits and client satisfaction that has a global market of 170 countries. In her role, Rometty is responsible for the results of revenues obtained by IBM which reached USD 95 billion in 2009. He is also responsible for IBM's global strategy in making sales. He is also responsible for IBM's global strategy in making sales. With all her strategies, this woman is a strong candidate to replace CEO Sam Palmisano.




8.       Ursula Burns,
Chairman and CEO of Xerox, in eighth place. Burns joined Xerox since 1980 and in July 2009 he was elected CEO. Then it was only in May 2010 that she had the role of Chairman of Xerox, besides being included in the ranks of American Express directors. Thanks to its achievements, Xerox is now the largest document management and business process company in the world with revenues reaching USD 22 billion.







source: Fortune Magazine 2011