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The Global 50 Most Powerful Women Business '14

The FORTUNE list of The Global 50 Most Powerful Women In Business is out with the new head of General Motors, Mary Barra, who has made it to the top of Fortune’s first list of the most powerful women in global business. We have PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, who is third on the list and ICICI’s Chanda Kochhar who moved from the 33rs rank in 2007 to the 18th spot this year are the only two Indian women on the list for 2014.


U.S. based Indra Nooyi -58, the Chairman, CEO of PepsiCo , who dropped from the second rank last year to No 3 this time has the distinction of doubling up outside sales the company in her seven years of her run in PepsiCo . The international markets now make up about half of the company's $65.5 billion in revenue which have increased the product and consumer base of the company.


Fifty two year old Chanda Kochhar, the Managing Director, CEO of ICICI Bank who leads the second-largest bank in India, with over $124 billion in assets, $1.5 billion in profit, and 3,588 branches across the country and with offices spread over 19 countries across the world making her the only Indian woman to be featured in the list for 2014.

The Global 50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2014
1. Mary Barra GM USA
2. Ginni Rometty IBM USA
3. Indra Nooyi PepsiCo USA
4. Maria de Gracas Silva Foster Petrobras Brazil
5. Ellen Kullman DuPont USA
6. Irene Rosenfeld Mondelez USA
7. Marillyn Hewson Lockheed Martin USA
8. Meg Whitman Hewlett Packard USA
9. Patricia Woertz Archer Daniels Midland USA
10. Gail Kelly Westpac Australia
11. Sheryl Sandberg Facebook USA
12. Phebe Novakovic General Dynamics USA
13. Safra Catz Oracle USA
14. Marissa Mayer Yahoo USA
15. Alison Cooper Imperial Tobacco Britain
16. Güler Sabanci Sabanci Holding Turkey
17. Deb Henretta Procter & Gamble USA
18. Chanda Kochhar ICICI Bank India
19. Sheri McCoy Avon USA
20. Susan Wojcicki Google USA
21. Ornella Barra Alliance Boots Britain
22. Chua Sock Koong Singapore Telecommunications Singapore
23. Annika FalkengrenSEB Sweden
24. Ursula Burns Xerox USA
25. Carol Meyrowitz TJX Companies USA
26. Ho Ching Temasek Singapore
27. Anne Sweeney Disney USA
28. Patricia BarbizetKering France
29. Abigail Johnson Fidelity Investments USA
30. Denise Morrison Campbell Soup USA
31. Mary Callahan Erdoes JP Morgan USA
32. Elizabeth Corley Allianz Global Investors Germany
33. Karen Agustiawan Pertamina Indonesia
34. Renée James Intel USA
35. Harriet Green ThomasCook Britain
36. Pam Nicholson Enterprise USA
37. Bridget Van Kralingen IBM USA
38. Nancy McKinstry Wolters Kluwer Netherlands
39. Rosalind Brewer Wal-Mart Stores USA
40. Sandra E. Peterson Johnson & Johnson USA
41. Ana Patricia BotínSantander U.K.Britain
42. Dong MingzuGree Electric Appliances China
43. Lubna Olayan Olayan Financing Saudi Arabia
44. Heather Bresch Mylan USA
45. Ilene Gordon Ingredion USA
46. Carolyn McCall Easy Jet Britain
47. Kwon Seon-joo Industrial Bank of Korea Korea
48. Isabelle Ealet Goldman Sachs Britain
49. Zhang Xin SOHO China China
50. Angela Ahrendts Burberry Britain