Powerful Women in the World For years now, women have successfully earned high-profile positions in the corporate world of America. Female executives, who were once downgraded to subservience roles, are now enjoying top positions in established companies throughout the country. Fortune business magazine has been compiling a list of most powerful women in business for 12 years now. Most names in the list hold the highest positions in international companies, and there are others smoothly going into that level. The traits of these women are not quite different from men when it comes to vision, intelligence, and persistence. However, many of these women privately claim that it took a lot of effort to get to where they are now. The business world may be called a man’s world, but women manage to get through such old school thinking. When Fortune launched the Top 50 list back in 1998 only two women were in CEO positions, but the list this year already includes 13 women CEOs. Almost all of these women run their own businesses. If you want to follow in their foot steps, you should consider buying a business. Check out GlobalBX.com – they have over 36,618 businesses and franchises for sale. Best of all it’s a FREE site! Powerful women in business of 2009 Below are the names of the women who made it to the top 10 of Fortune magazine’s list of the 50 most powerful women in business for 2009: 1. Indra Nooyi: Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo It is Indra Nooyi who got the top spot for four straight years now. She had a lot of contributions to the success of Food and Beverage Corporation. She also pioneered the crucial move to buy two independent bottling companies. This move can save her company more than $300 million every year. 2. Irene Rosenfeld: Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods Solid on the top two spot, Irene Rosenfeld helped the company in boosting its revenue to 15 percent. She also played a very important role in making Kraft Foods become part of the Dow 30. 3. Pat Woertz: Chairman, CEO, and President of Archer Daniels Midland Pat Woertz, a food-based corporate executive, guided her company in betting heavily on ethanol. She also worked hard to see the increase of 15 percent in ADM’s stock last 2008. 4. Angela Braly: President and CEO of Wellpoin Angela Braly is a top female executive of an established healthcare insurance company. Her company has 34 million members and it has yearly sales of more than $61 billion. Braly guided her company in reaching a stock increase of 71 percent last March 2009. 5. Andrea Jung: Chairman and CEO of Avon Products With a solid following worldwide, Avon encourages women empowerment by turning them into small entrepreneurs. With Andrea Jung’s unique recruitment methods, she added more than 200,000 members in the United States alone in the first quarter of 2009. 6. Oprah Winfrey: Chairman of Harpo Productions Oprah Winfrey is more than just a television host. Her entertainment empire focuses on movies, broadcast, and print. She is planning on expanding by buying a cable network with an estimated viewers of about 70 million. 7. Ellen Kullman: CEO of DuPont Ellen Kullman started out in the X-ray film division of the company more than 20 years ago. She worked her way up the food chain and successfully made it to the CEO position in January 2009. Her cost-cutting methods are meant to save the company billions of dollars this year. 8. Carol Bartz: CEO of Yahoo Before she assumed the position of CEO at Yahoo, Carol Bartz first worked at Autodesk, a CAD software solutions company. She is expected to bring new life into the Yahoo brand. Her partnership association with Microsoft got her competitors’ attention once again. 9. Ursula Burns: CEO of Xerox CEO of Xerox, Ursula Burns was the first African-American woman who got included in the Fortune 500 list. Burns lead her company away from bankruptcy in 2001. This year, Burns is also looking forward to seeing the company on its first profitable year. 10. Brenda Barnes: Chairman and CEO of Sara Lee Ever since 2005, Brenda Barnes has been effectively managing this very promising food manufacturing company. She sold unprofitable segments of the company to improve its market and stock value. The Best of Rest in the List The following are the remaining highlights in the list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: • Safra Catz: Co-President of Oracle Along with Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and CEO, Safra Catz paved the way to a smooth merge negotiation with Sun Microsystems. The said merge is worth more than $7 billion. It is also expected to give the company a $1.5 billion annual profit. • Carol Mayrowitz: CEO and President of TJX Corp. Carol Mayrowitz, despite economic downturns, pushed this retail conglomerate in achieving $19 billion sales, a four percent increase from the past couple of years. • Liz Smith: President of Avon Products Avon is the only company with two powerful women included in Fortune magazine’s list. Liz Smith earned this honor by guiding Avon’s sales to an increase of 65 percent in 2008. • Joanne Maguire: Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin While leading the Space System division of Lockheed Martin, Joanne Maguire saw the company to its 11 percent increase in operating profits in 2008. • Lorrie Norrington: President of eBay Lorrie Norrington worked as an executive at General Electric before she became president of eBay. She spearheaded a corporate development in the booming Asian market. She also participated in integrating the payment methods used by sellers and buyers in eBay. Do you want to be a powerful and successful entrepreneur? 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