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Top Ten
1. Charles River Labs
2. TJX
3. Perini
4. Investors Fin. Svcs.
5. Gillette
6. Staples
7. OneSource
8. Reebok
9. Bright Horizons
10. State Street
2002 Globe 100

Year's Best
Company of year
Highest market value
Highest sales
Comeback of the year
Biggest stock gain
Fastest growth

Features
Overall performance
Bulls and Bears
  Bulls
  1. Clean Harbors
  2. Hologic
  3. NMT Medical
  4. DeWolfe
  5. Indevus Pharm.
  Bears
  1. Sonus Networks
  2. Art Tech. Group
  3. Praecis Pharm.
  4. American Tower
  5. Dusa Pharmaceutical
Banking
Market value
Sales
Biotech
Medical devices
Growth
  1. Cytyc
  2. Polymedica Corp.
  3. Perini
  4. Tweeter
  5. Boston Private Fin.
Telecom
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Technology
IPOs
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Biggest Banks

Banks and S&Ls, ranked by assets.

Rank Company 2001 assets
(billions)

1 FleetBoston Financial Corp. 203.64

2 State Street Corp. 69.90

3 Investors Financial Services Corp. 5.30

4 Seacoast Financial Services Corp. 3.35

5 Independent Bank Corp. 2.20

6 Firstfed America Bancorp 1.70

7 First Essex Bancorp 1.59

8 Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. 1.51

9 Bostonfed Bancorp 1.47

10 CCBT Financial Cos. 1.45

Data compiled by Compustat.