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MAKING HEADLINES
The St. Louis
region and its companies often make national news. This column highlights
some of the most recent headline grabbers.
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National
Recognition Goes to Metropolitan Design
Above:
Metropolitan Design & Building Co.’s work on Sixth Church of
Christ, Scientist, appeared on the website of Architectural Record
magazine in a series on Places of Worship.
Architectural Record’s website featured an award-winning
project of Metropolitan Design & Building Co. As part of the magazine’s
Building Type Studies, the Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, is
included in the Places of Worship Series.
St. Louis Region Boasts Nine Companies on Deloitte & Touche 2001
Technology Fast 500
The St. Louis Regional FAST 50 Awards program at the St. Louis Science
Center’s James S. McDonnell Planetarium on Feb. 6 will honor not
only companies that made the FAST 50, but companies ranking in the
national FAST 500 as well.
Charter Communications is one of nine St. Louis-area companies to
make this year’s Fast 500 in North America. It is the only company
in the St. Louis region to be listed within the top 50, landing
at #32.
Charter Communications, a broadcasting and cable television company,
showed a 21,707 percent growth rate from $14,900,000 in 1996 to
$3,249,200,000 in 2000.
The rest of the St. Louis-based companies to rank in the Fast 500
are:
- The
Newberry Group Inc. at #175
- VIASYSTEMS
Group Inc. at #203
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Access US/Habanero at #362
- Webster
Group International, Inc. at #369
- Rose
International, Inc., at #388
- Maryville
Technologies at #425
- DataServ
LLC at #466
- World
Wide Technology, Inc., at #486
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St. Louis
Companies Grew an Average 4,179 Percent
Fast 500 companies in the St. Louis region grew an average of 4,179
percent, compared with the national average of 6,184 percent, which
is up significantly from 2000’s average growth rate of 3,956 percent.
Five-year growth percentages for the 2001 Fast 500 winners ranged
from 824 percent to 115,874 percent. Combined, the top five 2001
Fast 500 winners’ average growth rate was 93,496 percent.
Qualifying Criteria for the Fast 500
The Fast 500 list is compiled from three sources:
- Winners
and candidates of Deloitte & Touche’s 22 regional North
American Fast 50 programs
- Nominations
submitted directly to the Fast 500
- Public
company database research.
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To qualify for
the Fast 500, entrants must have had 1996 operating revenues of
at least $50,000 USD and $75,000 CD for the United States and Canada,
respectively.
Entrants are public or private companies headquartered in North
America and must be a “technology company,” defined as a company
that develops proprietary technology, which contributes to a significant
portion of the company’s operating revenues, manufactures a technology-related
product, or devotes a high percentage of effort to research and
development of technology.
Start Magazine Honors “Technology & Business Vision” of
Watlow Engineering
Start magazine recently presented Watlow Engineering a 2001
Technology & Business Vision award. Each year, through this award
program, Start recognizes technology solutions that have
changed a small business, engineering or manufacturing company.
The publication, which advises executives about the business of
technology, selected Watlow Engineering for developing a new PC-based
motion control system for Watlow’s Richmond, Ill., location.
In applications for the Start awards, nominees describe technical
challenges and opportunities they created using new technologies.
Watlow Engineering wanted to provide for its Richmond facility a
plasma-welding control that not only used leading technology, but
would also lower manufacturing costs, handle larger orders and product
design changes. Beyond those requirements, Watlow Engineering enhanced
safety features, created a user-friendly control system with durable
construction.
A panel of judges from the analyst community selected Watlow’s solution
among the winners as both realistic and assertive in implementing
technology to serve customers. One judge cited Watlow for “taking
the right measures to attain its long-term goals.” Watlow Engineering,
a subsidiary of Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co., supports Watlow
manufacturing facilities worldwide. Watlow designs and manufactures
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