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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
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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.
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Top 15 profit growth

Globe 100 companies ranked by absolute increase in profits from 2000 to 2001 as a percentage of revenue.

Rank Company 1-year
change in
profit margin

1 Haemonetics Corp. 5,830.04

2 Onesource Information Services 377.12

3 Staples Inc. 340.83

4 Seachange International Inc. 248.42

5 Designs Inc. 144.32

6 Lifeline Systems Inc. 67.46

7 Berkshire Hills Bancorp 66.84

8 Novitron International Inc. 49.93

9 Charles River Laboratories International Inc. 49.72

10 Dynamics Research Corp. 48.24

11 Bruker Daltonics Inc. 45.48

12 Matec Corp. 40.09

13 Circor International Inc. 36.40

14 Port Financial Corp. 34.40

15 Kronos Inc. 24.16

Data compiled by Compustat.