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NY Area's Largest Privately Held Companies SPECIAL ISSUE ® VOL. XXIII, NO. 53 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM © 2007 BY CRAIN COMMUNICATIONS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRICE: $49.95 COMPANIES PEOPLE Fastest-Growing Companies Fortunate 100 CEOs Privately Held Companies Power 25: Influential Women Professional Sports Teams REAL ESTATE Publicly Held Companies Commercial Property Managers Software Companies Construction Companies Unions CoStar Market Reports Women-Owned Companies Real Estate Investment Trusts PROFESSIONS TOURISM Accounting Firms Airlines Law Firms Events Management Consultants Hotels FINANCIAL THE BEST OF BOB LAPE Commercial Banks Top-Rated Restaurants Thrifts HEALTH CARE Health Insurers Hospitals $49.95US 81 NEWSPAPER 0 71486 01069 2 In excess of $10 billion worth of commercial real estate bought and sold...a well regarded 65 person tenant rep practice...over 35 years of New York market intelligence... MHP CORPORATE CAPABILITIES MHP OWNER/AGENT MHP ADVANTAGES MHP EXCLUSIVE AGENT Acquisition DAILY INVOLVEMENT The principals of the company Investments are involved in every advisory, management, and leasing Disposition assignment. Property Sales DEEP RESOURCES Long-Term Institutional Partnerships Highly respected financial partners and global alliances 1414 Avenue of the Americas Asset Management that enhance, not inhibit, our corporate capabilities. Property Management 135 West 50 Street INSIDE KNOWLEDGE Office Space Brokerage As long-term owners of commercial property, we Retail Space Brokerage are privy to crucial market Medical Space Brokerage One Park Avenue data and leasing availabilities. Showroom Space Brokerage DUE DILIGENCE On assignment after assignment, Tenant Representation our team of experts has proven that in the final analysis, the key Landlord Representation to a successful leasing transaction is the initial analysis. 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One Pepsi Way, Somers NY 1412 Broadway TO DISCUSS MHP CORPORATE CAPABILITIES OR LEASING OPPORTUNITIES, CALL 212.944.4747 OR VISIT WWW.MURRAYHILL.COM CONTENTS COMPANIES PEOPLE Fastest-Growing Companies --------------------------------------------4 Fortunate 100 CEOs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------66 -------------------------------- Privately Held Companies --------------------------------------------------------9 Power 25: Influential Women 70 Professional Sports Teams --------------------------------------------23 REAL ESTATE Publicly Held Companies --------------------------------------------------24 Commercial Property Managers ------------------72 Software Companies --------------------------------------------------------------------------36 Construction Companies --------------------------------------------------------76 ------------------------------------------ Unions --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------39 CoStar Market Reports 80, 81 Real Estate Investment Trusts---------------------------- 82 Women-Owned Companies ------------------------------------------42 TOURISM PROFESSIONS Airlines ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------85 Accounting Firms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------G4 Events ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------86 Law Firms ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------46 Hotels----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------88 Management Consultants --------------------------------------------------49 THE BEST OF BOB LAPE FINANCIAL HEALTH CARE Top-Rated Restaurants -------------------------------------------------------------- 90 Commercial Banks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------52 Health Insurers----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------58 INDEX Thrifts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------55 Hospitals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------62 Alphabetical Company Listing -------------------------- 94 vol. xxiii, no. 53, december 31, 2007—Crain’s New York Business (issn 8756-789x) is published weekly by Crain Communications Inc., 711 Third Ave., Download the Book of Lists New York, NY 10017. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y. and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to: Crain’s New York Business, Circulation Department, 1155 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, MI 48207-2912. To download the Book of Lists, go to www.crainsnewyork.com for subscriber service: Call (888) 909-9111. Fax (313) 446-6777.$3.00 a copy, $59.79 one year, $109.79 two years. (GST No. 13676-0444-RT) and click on “Lists.” Each list is available in Excel or PDF format. ©Entire contents copyright 2007 by Crain Communications Inc. All rights reserved. empire state building on the cover and this page: the cover building on state empire istockphoto JOE TORRE ON THE ART OF MANAGING “Team chemistry isn’t confined to the diamond.” “As one knowing sportswriter once wrote, ‘there’s no I in team’. It’s true, in your business as well as in mine. We’re both in the people business, where teamwork and chemistry are high on the list of client expectations.”For more than eight decades, J.H. Cohn has built a reputation for its team approach to client service. We are proud to say this approach has been rewarded with uniquely long-term client relationships. The best kind. How Are You Managing? SM Major offices in New York, California, Connecticut, and throughout New Jersey www.jhcohn.com 1-877-704-3500 book of lists 2008 | Crain’s New York Business | 1 Taryn Rose Charter Member 2,459 of 10,000 Taryn Rose Boutique Las Vegas, NV If payment in full of the New Balance on your billing statement is credited to your Account within 10 days after your statement Closing Date, you will receive a discount of 2% if your Eligible Purchases made during the billing peri deferred amounts) by the Please Pay By date on your billing statement, you may defer payment of the remainder of that New Balance until the Please Pay By date shown on your next billing statement. Your Account must be od covered by that statement exceed $5,000. If your Eligible Purchases are less than or equal to $5,000, you will receive a Discount of 1%. If you pay at least 10% of your New Balance (plus the entire amount of any previously e in good standing in the month in which you exercise the Defer Pay Option. Additional terms, conditions and restrictions apply. For full details, visit PlumCard.com. © 2007 American Express Bank, FSB. All rights reserved. This chart was first published Nov. 19, 2007 COMPANIES Best-Performing Publicly Traded Companies in the New York Area Largest in shareholder returns: American Real Estate Partners1 Top 5 in Revenue Growth Top 5 in Net Income Growth Northstar Realty Finance +277.9% $544.0 Macquarie Infrastructure Co. Trust +228.5% $1,783.6 +441.1% 247 173 1-Rank on ’07 list of top publicly held companies: 240. 158 Sirius Satellite Radio +267.2% $5,098.0 194 AmTrust Financial Services Inc. +227.4% $788.5 Largest in revenues and net income: Citigroup2 112 Covanta Holding +213.6% $4,155.1 247 Northstar Realty Finance +179.8% $544.0 242 Crystal River Capital +152.8% $361.6 157 Nymex Holdings +159.3% $11,784.4 $146,905M ’06 REVENUES 195 OSI Pharmaceuticals +126.4% $2,395.3 25 Arrow Electronics +147.2% $4,459.1 ■ Rank on ’07 list of largest publicly held companies ■ Three-year annualized growth rate ■ Market capitalization (in millions) $21,538M ’06 NET INCOME Companies were drawn from Crain’s 2007 list of the area’s 250 largest publicly held companies. Not all of them appear in the list below, which ranks companies based on a combination of measures. Market capitalization: closing stock price on Nov. 9, multiplied by the number of common shares outstanding for the most recent quarter. See Page 26 for notes on growth rate for revenue and income. 2-Rank on ’07 list of top publicly held companies: 1. New York Area’s Fastest-Growing Companies Based on the sum of firm rankings in revenue growth rate, net income growth rate and share price appreciation Three-year Three-year annualized annualized Closing revenue 2006 net income 2006 Three-year price for growth revenue growth net income share price shares on Rank Company/Ticker symbol Phone/Web site rate/Rank (in millions) rate/Rank (in millions) appreciation/Rank 11/9/07 Industry/Number of employees Icahn Enterprises 1 (IEP) (212) 702-4300 +68.4% $1,477.9 +124.8% $798.8 +409.8% $127.22 Building operator 1 767 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10153 www.icahnenterprisescom 16 8 4 13,370 Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (CTSH) (201) 801-0233 +57.0% $1,424.3 +59.5% $232.8 +193.9% $30.79 Software 2 500 Glenpointe Centre West, Teaneck, NJ 07666 www.cognizant.com 23 26 17 38,800 AllianceBernstein Holding (AB) (212) 969-1000
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