The 29-year-old firm has dominated this year's biggest cancer treatment conference, the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), with its drugs Herceptin, Avastin and Tarceva.
"We've lost work to larger firms and like any small business, small architectural firms need a boost these days, " says Mr. Davidson, whose 15-year-old firm receives up to 70 federal contracts every year, mostly for renovations to U.S. Postal Service buildings.
Hurst Capital, a fledgling private-equity firm run by 26-year-old twins, also vied for Hostess's cake brands, but appears to have fallen short of securing the stalking horse bid.
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Doshi, 47, cites both as reasons he chose Chattanooga as home for his ten-year-old firm.
Ovi is a gamble, but the 143-year-old firm has a knack for reinventing itself.
Many of the jobs are in sales and marketing, bolstering the 20-year-old firm's search for new clients.
If the court approves it, the 133-year-old firm aims to split its intellectual properties into two bundles.
"He's the reason I started my company, " says Ms. Navarro, who manages 14 employees at her 7-year-old firm.
The buyer was Marvell Technology Group, an 11-year-old firm in Santa Clara, Calif.
The buyer was Marvell Technology Group, an 11-year-old firm in Santa Clara, California.
The 230-year-old firm, based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, said it is mainly putting the money into new equipment it has developed.
In drivable RVs, Thor will run head-on into the powerful 46-year-old firm Winnebago, which gets all its sales from drivable RVs.
He wants his 20-year-old firm, Give Something Back, to continue to contribute to local food banks and homeless shelters, among other causes.
The 120-year-old firm has posted 76 consecutive years of sales increases and 47 consecutive years of dividend increases, according to its Web site.
The five-year-old firm, a cable-TV operator with about 30, 000 Manila customers, began offering Internet-over-cable in July as an alternative to conventional dial-up access.
Vertex, an 18-year-old firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has always been on the cusp of having a big-selling drug yet has never quite scored with one.
With the IPO, he is wresting control of the 157-year-old firm away from a powerful group of nonworking partners led by Michel David-Weill , a descendant of the founder.
All this geographic mania amuses the de facto father of the mapping field: Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Environmental Systems Research Institute, the 37-year-old firm that is the Microsoft of mapping.
His seven-year-old firm, Voxiva (a merger of the Latin words for "voice" and "life"), is gaining ground in the largely underserved field of helping global aid groups and government agencies communicate quickly with diverse constituencies.
Even a deal in which Goldman neither admitted to nor denied committing fraud in the Abacus deal would damage the 141-year-old firm's standing with clients and increase the likelihood of a wave of civil lawsuits.
Fisher, the first outsider ever to run the 117-year-old firm, was widely credited with refocusing Kodak on its core business after previous CEOs had launched the company on disastrous forays into areas as far afield as batteries and pharmaceuticals.
But with its new thin client offerings--the first products to come out of its acquisition of hardware firm Neoware last year--HP is hoping to tap into a growing trend sparked by software offerings from companies such as VMware and Microsoft: virtualization.
But with its new thin client offerings--the first products to come out of its acquisition of hardware firm Neoware last year--HP is hoping to tap into a growing trend sparked by software offerings from companies such as VMware (nyse: VMW - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ): virtualization.
The private-equity firm is leading the charge behind a three-year restructuring plan begun last July to help the firm reduce its inventory as well as introduce new products more quickly.
Reinhart, 48, is the chief executive of Luminary Micro, a three-year-old semiconductor firm in Austin, Tex.
Reinhart, 48, is the chief executive of Luminary Micro, a three-year-old semiconductor firm in Austin, Texas.
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Over 10 months, the venerable Minnesota company began a program with the aid of Opera Solutions Inc. of New York, an eight-year-old analytics firm.
For Booker, a 159-year-old British firm that started off as a sugar producer in South America, it meant anticipating the nationalisation of its core business and moving into shipping and shopkeeping.
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