QP's Top 100: Hold High the Torch!

By Karen Lowery Hall

There are some major changes to QP's Top 100 list this year, primarily in the form of major players dropping out of the list. So let's get this out of the way up front: With total 2007 sales of $648,214,526, the list total fell by 1.02%. That decrease was caused almost entirely by the elimination of seven top companies whose combined sales pulled $87.22 million out of the bottom line.

The silver lining to the cloud is that when we compare 2007 sales posted by the members of this year's list against their own 2006 performance, sales grew by 7.74%. More on that later.

Of the seven companies that dropped ...

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