Sales 50

Ranked by revenue in 2008.

2009 rank	2008 rank	Company	Revenue (millions)	Change (percent)
1	1	Raytheon Co.	$23,174.0	8.8
2	2	Staples	$23,083.8	19.2
3	3	TJX Cos.	$18,999.5	3.6
4	4	EMC Corp.	$14,876.2	12.4
5	5	Thermo Fisher Scientific	$10,498.0	7.7
6	8	State Street Corp.	$10,397.0	24.3
7	6	BJ's Wholesale Club	$10,027.4	11.2
8	9	Global Partners	$9,019.1	33.5
9	7	Boston Scientific Corp.	$8,050.0	-3.7
10	10	Perini Corp.	$5,660.3	22.3
11	11	Genzyme Corp.	$4,605.0	20.8
12	13	Biogen IDEC	$4,097.5	29.2
13	12	NStar	$3,345.4	2.6
14	16	Cabot Corp.	$3,132.0	17.2
15	15	Iron Mountain	$3,055.1	11.9
16	14	Hanover Insurance Group	$2,680.4	0.2
17	17	Analog Devices	$2,445.6	-0.3
18	21	PerkinElmer	$1,937.5	13.8
19	22	Beacon Roofing Supply	$1,849.4	11.1
20	41	Hologic	$1,732.3	83.0
21	46	Inverness Medical Innovations	$1,671.4	99.1
22	23	Millipore Corp.	$1,602.1	4.6
23	26	American Tower Corp.	$1,593.5	9.4
24	25	Waters Corp.	$1,575.1	6.9
25	18	Talbots	$1,495.2	-12.5
26	27	Watts Water Technologies	$1,459.4	5.6
27	30	3Com Corp.	$1,354.9	6.5
28	31	Charles River Laboratories International	$1,343.5	9.2
29	-	iBasis	$1,323.6	41.0
30	24	Boston Properties	$1,301.8	-13.4
31	32	Sepracor	$1,292.3	5.5
32	19	OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd.	$1,291.5	-42.9
33	37	Parexel International Corp.	$1,270.2	23.2
34	29	Hospitality Properties Trust	$1,252.7	-2.6
35	28	Affiliated Managers Group	$1,158.2	-15.5
36	-	Bruker Corp.	$1,107.1	7.2
37	34	Teradyne	$1,107.0	0.4
38	38	Five Star Quality Care	$1,104.2	13.5
39	39	Parametric Technology Corp.	$1,069.5	11.3
40	-	ModusLink Global Solutions	$1,067.4	-1.8
41	44	UniFirst Corp.	$1,038.5	12.0
42	40	Clean Harbors	$1,030.7	8.8
43	33	Eaton Vance Corp.	$1,015.5	-10.2
44	42	Novell	$940.5	-0.5
45	-	Nuance Communications	$890.3	34.2
46	50	Skyworks Solutions	$859.7	13.7
47	43	Avid Technology	$844.9	-9.1
48	45	HRPT Properties Trust	$837.0	6.5
49	-	Circor International	$793.8	19.2
50	-	Akamai Technologies	$790.9	24.3