20 most powerful businesswomen world

Leading the Forbes list this year as Facebook COO - Sheryl Sandberg, followed by Pepsi CEO - Indra Nooyi and CEO Kraft - Irene Rosenfeld.
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Sheryl Sandberg 1
Company: Facebook
Age: 43

After 4 years as Director of Operation (COO) and efforts to achieve $ 100 billion IPO for Facebook, Sandberg has been appointed as member of the Board of Management of the largest social network in the world.

Indra Nooyi 2
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Company: Pepsi
Age: 57

CEO and Chairman of PepsiCo has consistently ranked in the top 20 most powerful women in the world since 2006. Last year, she helped Pepsi sales of USD 66 billion, up 14% over the same period, and pay dividends on to $ 5.6 billion.

3. Irene Rosenfeld
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Company: Kraft
Age: 59

Former chairman and CEO of Kraft confectionery firm has made an historic split, turning parts business in North America and globally into two independent companies. She is currently the CEO of a global division with the name Mondelez International.

4. Virginia Rometty
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Company: IBM
Age: 54

10/2011, the village of 30-year old employee at IBM - "Ginni" Rometty was appointed the first female CEO of technology giant this information. Last year, IBM's revenue is more than $ 100 billion.

5. Ursula Burns
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Company: Xerox
Age: 54

Xerox Chairman and CEO of the company is to develop a service-oriented rather than just selling printers and copiers. Management services such as e-ticketing transaction, machine tolls or parking levy is brought half the revenue for the company.

6. Meg Whitman
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Company: HP
Age: 56

Former CEO of eBay cum CEO of Hewlett-Packard Front (HP) has been knocked off the California governor's election in 2010. However, she was faced with the difficult task much as turn things around for a tech giants is difficult.

7. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
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Company: Petrobras
Age: 59

Petrobras oil company production to 91% oil and 90% natural gas to Brazil. Petrobras CEO, Foster has brought more than 130 billion US dollars revenue for the company in 2011.

8. Marissa Mayer
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Company: Yahoo!
Age: 37

Google's 20th employee has shocked the tech world when claiming the search giant to leave as CEO for Yahoo on May 7. In his new role, she plans to improve the operation of franchise is very strong Yahoo on email, finance and sports.

9. Anne Sweeney
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Company: Disney-ABC Television Group
Age: 55

Co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group is managing ABC Studios, ABC Television Network and Disney Channel Worldwide with more than 100 channels, covering up to 600 million viewers in 169 countries.

10. Susan Wojcicki
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Company: Google
Age: 44

Wojcicki - senior vice president of Google, is the man behind all the giants of this search (AdWords, AdSense, Analytics and DoubleClick). These services contribute to Google to 96% of revenue in 2011 (37.9 billion dollars).

11. Arianna Huffington
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Company: Huffington Post
Age: 62

Co-founder of The Huffington Post online newspaper, was sold to AOL in 2011, has won this year's Pulitzer Prize for local reporting segment. She is focusing on the Huffington Post plans to expand globally by introducing new versions in Spain and Italy.

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Company: Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
Age: 66

Designer Von Furstenberg Belgian fashion entrepreneur with $ 30,000 in 1970 and quickly climbed to the top of the village design. She is currently President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), including 350 top designers in the country. Von Furstenberg is also the organizer of the campaign You Can not Fake Fashion, co-sponsored by the CFDA and eBay, to raise awareness of people about counterfeit and pirated goods.

13. Amy Pascal
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Company: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Age: 54

Co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment is behind a lot of American blockbusters. This year, the company launched the comedy 21 Jump Street, a science fiction film Men in Black action and The Amazing Spiderman 3 - expected earned $ 800 million worldwide.

14. Sheri McCoy
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Company: Avon
Age: 53

After leaving the pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson, CEO chair at McCoy receiving cosmetic company Avon on June 4. Avon remains a direct distributor of beauty products the world's largest, with 6.4 million people sales in 100 countries.

15. Mary Barra
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Company: General Motors
Age: 50

As senior vice president in charge of global product development, women Barra is the highest authority at General Motors - the largest car manufacturers in the world. She currently manage 36,000 employees, head of design, engineering and quality management 11 GM global brands.

16. Laura Lang
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Company: Time

Former director of Digitas just started as CEO at Time in January this year. In June, she has agreed to sell the right to membership in 20 of Time magazine on the Apple iPad tablet.

17. Angela Ahrendts
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Company: Burberry
Age: 52

As CEO of the largest high-end fashion England - Burberry, Ahrendts has helped the company achieve annual sales of $ 2.9 billion.

18. Sue Naegle
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Company: HBO
Age: 43

As chairman of Time Warner's HBO Entertainment, Naegle has created successful series of programs, from Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and most recently the film The Newsroom, premiered to 2.1 million viewers in June.

Safra Catz 19th
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Company: Oracle
Age: 51

Oracle's longtime chairman became its chief financial officer last year. She is very optimistic about the future and believe that the company can achieve the highest operating profits in history this year.