President and chief executive officer Fabrizio Freda of Estée Lauder has been named to the highly prestigious Barron’s list of the World’s Best CEOs in 2018.
Thirty top CEOs were announced to Barron’s World’s Best CEOs 2018 list. Fabrizio and The Estée Lauder Companies join other top performing organizations and executives, including Larry Fink (BlackRock), Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan Chase), Robert Iger (Disney), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), and Larry Page (Alphabet). The formula for making Barron’s World’s Best CEOs list consists of several key ingredients, among them revenue, earnings growth and share-price performance over the past five years. Other important factors include innovation, transformation, growth, stamina, staying power, vision and leadership. Barron’s conducts interviews with investors, analysts and industry executives to identify corporate leaders who have made a significant difference to their companies and delivered results for investors, maintaining consistent profit growth and shareholder gains.
Freda made Happi headlines recently for other accolades. For more on Estee Lauder, look out for our Top 50 roundup coming next month.