The following process was used to determine a company’s overall rank in the 2005 GC 100:

1. All companies were ranked on each of the five indicators above.
2. A weighted rank was calculated by applying the following weights to a company’s rank on each indicator:
• Size 20%
• Profitability 25%
• Growth 30%
• Employment 15%
• Social Responsibility 10%
3.  The overall rank for any company in the 2005 GC 100 was obtained from its weighted average rank from 2 above.

Any ties with ranking were eliminated by using growth as the tie breaker: