09.15.15
This year, our annual top companies report has seen a number of signifi cant changes as a string of acquisitions in 2013 and 2014 have removed several names from the list, made way for new players and changed the positions of some companies that have been included in the rankings for some time.
The most signifi cant change, of course, is at the top of the list. Years of aggressive investing, including some pretty signifi cant acquisitions, have won Avintiv (formerly PGI) a place at the top of the list, displacing Freudenberg Performance Materials, the company that has held the number one position every year since the beginning of the top companies report. Freudenberg managed to hold steady at number two this year.
Avintiv’s investments have taken many companies off of this report over the years and the latest of these is Companhia Providencia whose sales and activities are now included with Avintiv’s profi le. Another company that was lost to acquisitions was Andrew Industries, an industrial fi ltration company acquired by Lydall in early 2014. The acquisition also propelled Lydall, which renamed Andrew Lydall Industrial Filtraiton up the r
The most signifi cant change, of course, is at the top of the list. Years of aggressive investing, including some pretty signifi cant acquisitions, have won Avintiv (formerly PGI) a place at the top of the list, displacing Freudenberg Performance Materials, the company that has held the number one position every year since the beginning of the top companies report. Freudenberg managed to hold steady at number two this year.
Avintiv’s investments have taken many companies off of this report over the years and the latest of these is Companhia Providencia whose sales and activities are now included with Avintiv’s profi le. Another company that was lost to acquisitions was Andrew Industries, an industrial fi ltration company acquired by Lydall in early 2014. The acquisition also propelled Lydall, which renamed Andrew Lydall Industrial Filtraiton up the r
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