Welcomed to the World Finance 100 for the second year running, ABB has, as predicted last year, come through periods of great difficulty with excellent prospects for future growth. Last year, the group invested heavily in research and development, and is now starting to reap the benefits of such faith as orders from across the world come flooding in. At the end of the third quarter in 2010, reports emanated that orders in India alone had grown by eight percent year-on-year due to an increase in demand for power systems. Stocks in ABB are as attractive as ever.