Most Valuable Brands In The World

Brand Finance has published its 2010 Global 500 Survey of the world's most valuable brands. Here are the top ten, which include Britain's Vodafone and HSBC.

Wal-Mart, $41.4bn

Google, $36.2bn

Coca-Cola, $34.8bn

IBM, $33.7bn

Microsoft (creator of Windows), $33.6bn

General Electric (GE), $31.9bn

Vodafone, $29bn

HSBC, $28.5bn

hp, $27.4bn

Toyota, $27.3bn