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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. 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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