50 Most Powerful Women in Business: FORTUNE’s annual ranking of America’s leading businesswomen

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Entrepreneurship is not just a word but it’s an entitlement of your future and what you want out of life. Seeing 50 of the world’s most powerful business women would help anyone put things in prospective.

Today, Fortune have revealed their Top 50 annual ranking of America’s leading businesswomen. We have to admit, this is the most powerful list that we have seen to date. These women have shifted economic resources out of lower and into higher productivity and greater yield. The pure definition of an entrepreneur.

Check out the listing below…

1. Irene Rosenfeld
Chairman and CEO
Kraft Foods
2010 rank: 2
Age: 58
Rosenfeld made a big show of power this year with her decision to split Kraft into two companies, a reversal of her previous strategy of expanding through acquisitions (like the 2010 purchase of Cadbury). Her new role hasn’t been decided but she plans to remain CEO until the deal’s expected close in 2012.

2. Indra Nooyi
CEO and chairman
PepsiCo.
2010 rank: 1
Age: 55
On Nooyi’s watch, PepsiCo has forged further into nutrition-focused products, a business that the company is trying to grow to $30 billion in 2020 from about $10 billion in 2010. But Nooyi has been criticized for taking her eye off the core North American soda business, which has lost share to Coke.

3. Patricia Woertz
Chairman, CEO, and president
Archer Daniels Midland
2010 rank: 3
Age: 58
The processor of agricultural commodities like oil seeds, corn, and wheat boosted fiscal 2011 sales thanks to increased demand. The onetime accountant and former oil executive has pushed into developing regions such as South America, with plans to build a biodiesel plant in Brazil and a soybean facility in Paraguay.

4. Ellen Kullman
Chairman and CEO
DuPont
2010 rank: 7
Age: 55
In May she completed her biggest move yet with the $6.4 billion acquisition of Danish food ingredient producer Danisco, shifting the chemical company more toward food and nutrition. Analysts credit her with DuPont’s turnaround in the stock market: Shares have returned 99%, vs. 37% for the S&P, since she took over in 2009.

8. Ursula Burns
Chairman and CEO
Xerox
2010 rank: 9
Age: 53
Last year she closed the company’s biggest deal ever — the $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, which helped increase profits 25%. The ACS deal, once ballyhooed by investors, has been the crux of Burns’ strategy to grow the services side of the business, now half of Xerox’s revenue.

16. Oprah Winfrey
Chairman, CEO, and chief creative officer, OWN; chairman, Harpo
Harpo
2010 rank: 6
Age: 57
When OWN flagged this year, Winfrey moved in as CEO and chief creative officer of her new cable network. She’s added 20 new advertisers for 2012. But with Oprah not in living rooms every day, courtesy of her former daily syndicated talk show, her influence has waned.

23. Rosalind Brewer
EVP and President, Walmart East
Wal-Mart
2010 rank: 35
Age: 49
With her new job as head of the retail behemoth’s Eastern division, the Lockheed and Molson Coors board member now manages operations in 20 states, with 550,000 associates and about $100 billion in sales — a figure that would put her division in the top 20 of the Fortune 500 if it were a standalone company.

33. Linda Gooden
EVP, Information Systems and Global Services
Lockheed Martin
2010 rank: 33
Age: 58
With Gooden heading up the IT business, the company’s three female EVPs control about 70% of its revenue. The longtime Lockheed exec increased her unit’s sales about 4%, but operating profit was essentially flat.

Congrats to the following women!

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