The Sales 100

Rank	2001 rank	Company	2001 Revenues ($ millions)	% change 2000 to 2001
1	1	Raytheon Co.	16,867.00	-0.17
2	3	Staples Inc.	10,744.37	0.66
3	4	TJX Cos.	10,709.00	11.80
4	2	FleetBoston Financial Corp.	10,407.00	-35.24
5		John Hancock Financial Services Inc.	9,109.00	1.92
6	5	Gillette Co.	8,961.00	-2.86
7	6	EMC Corp.	7,090.63	-20.09
8	7	BJ's Wholesale Club Inc.	5,279.73	7.05
9	8	State Street Corp.	3,797.00	6.96
10	9	Allmerica Financial Corp.	3,311.80	4.06
11	14	Nstar	3,191.84	18.53
12	12	Reebok International Ltd.	2,992.88	4.46
13	15	Boston Scientific Corp.	2,673.00	0.34
14	17	Thermo Electron Corp.	2,188.21	-4.05
15	13	Analog Devices Inc.	1,897.62	-33.64
16	21	Cabot Corp.	1,652.00	3.77
17	20	Talbots Inc.	1,612.51	1.10
18	25	Perini Corp.	1,553.40	40.50
19		Manufacturers Services Ltd.	1,522.00	-13.43
20	10	Teradyne Inc.	1,440.58	-52.67
21	19	PerkinElmer Inc.	1,330.05	-0.41
22		Genuity Inc.	1,220.56	7.38
23	28	Iron Mountain Inc.	1,171.12	18.73
24	26	Commerce Group	1,153.84	4.94
25	41	American Tower Corp.	1,134.19	54.25
26	31	Biogen Inc.	1,043.36	12.62
27	40	Genzyme General	981.93	30.49
28	23	CMGI Inc.	956.17	-26.21
29	32	Parametric Technology Corp.	898.27	-2.82
30	38	Waters Corp.	859.21	8.07
31	33	SLI Inc.	851.19	-0.27
32	34	Keane Inc.	779.16	-10.64
33	30	Millipore Corp.	656.90	9.45
34	53	Tweeter Home Entertainment Group	630.07	43.70
35	46	New England Business Service Inc.	569.55	1.54
36	42	Friendly Ice Cream Corp.	561.87	-6.18
37	45	Unifirst Corp.	557.99	3.73
38		Watts Industries Inc. (class A)	548.94	6.36
39	44	Stride Rite Corp.	529.15	-3.50
40	52	Eaton Vance Corp.	496.95	11.07
41	37	Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc.	483.40	-39.90
42		Ascential Sotware Corp.	481.33	-48.21
43	49	Ionics Inc.	466.73	-1.65
44		Charles River Laboratories International Inc.	465.63	51.88
45	48	Avid Technology Inc.	434.64	-8.71
46	55	American Biltrite Inc.	418.26	-1.49
47	60	Parexel International Corp.	413.74	11.53
48	51	Affiliated Managers Group	408.21	-11.01
49	58	Mestek Inc.	394.10	4.82
50	65	Yankee Candle Inc.	379.83	12.11
51		Axcelis Technologies Inc.	365.26	-46.32
52	67	Steinway Musical Instruments Inc.	352.61	6.31
53	90	Investors Financial Services Corp.	352.54	59.62
54	72	Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.	345.86	18.80
55		Circor International Inc.	343.08	8.28
56		Interactive Data Corp.	340.00	8.23
57	64	Analogic Corp.	335.72	-0.12
58	59	Brooks Automation Inc.	331.78	-15.83
59	71	Quaker Fabric Corp.	331.11	9.28
60	47	Sapient Corp.	329.70	-34.50
61		Simon Worldwide Inc.	324.04	-57.83
62	74	Haemonetics Corp.	317.33	10.21
63	79	Kronos Inc.	304.06	12.61
64	70	Aspen Technology Inc.	302.63	-0.26
65	91	CTC Communications Group	299.44	38.04
66	83	J. Jill Group	287.04	16.54
67	68	MKS Instruments Inc.	286.81	-38.57
68	75	RSA Security Inc.	282.72	0.90
69	78	Applied Extrusion Technologies Inc.	272.59	0.61
70	94	Polymedica Corp.	263.60	26.73
71	77	Progress Software Corp.	262.00	-3.45
72	89	Clean Harbors Inc.	251.60	7.77
73	97	Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.	246.22	25.45
74	66	PRI Automation Inc.	238.75	-26.72
75		Digitas Inc.	235.51	-18.27
76		Genzyme Biosurgery	235.14	61.93
77		Kadant Inc.	221.17	-5.85
78		Cytyc Corp.	220.99	55.56
79	100	DeWolfe Cos.	214.50	10.32
80	96	Courier Corp.	203.46	1.54
81	95	Dynamics Research Corp.	201.11	0.47
82	87	L.S. Starrett Co. (class A)	197.81	-15.83
83	80	Vicor Corp.	195.91	-23.94
84	98	Designs Inc.	195.12	0.30
85	57	LTX Corp.	192.76	-48.35
86		MRO Software Inc.	190.46	10.64
87		Boston Beer Inc. (class A)	186.78	-1.98
88		Maxwell Shoe Co. (class A)	185.40	12.67
89	92	Provant Inc.	181.77	-15.45
90		Hologic Inc.	181.08	54.77
91		Lightbridge Inc.	176.62	-5.37
92		Sonus Networks Inc.	173.20	234.56
93		Mercury Computer Systems Inc.	167.99	10.18
94		Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	167.49	9.27
95		Akamai Technologies Inc.	163.21	81.82
96		Forrester Research Inc.	159.12	1.26
97		Microfinancial Inc.	154.09	10.48
98	76	Alpha Industries Inc.	152.31	-44.69
99		Sepracor Inc.	152.10	78.42
100		Mac-Gray Corp.	152.07	-1.43