Celestica Inc. Tops BusinessWeek's 'Info Tech 100' List Along With Verizon, IBM, and Advanced Micro Devices.Business & Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2001 Fourth Annual List of Best Performing Tech Companies Proves Selling Efficiency Is Good, Being Efficient Is Better; AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner, eBay, Yahoo! and Amazon.com Fall Off List In its June 18 issue, BusinessWeek has compiled its fourth annual "Info Tech 100," a ranking of the 100 best-performing technology companies in the world. This year's list truly reflects that a sobering period has arrived: the era of efficiency. BusinessWeek predicts that "the tech companies that will prosper the most are those that have figured out both halves of the efficiency game: how to live it by the way they do business internally and how to sell it through profit-boosting products and services." The Class of 2001 from BusinessWeek's "Info Tech 100" is dominated by companies -- outsourcers, consultants, software and hardware manufacturers -- that have either achieved the efficiency long promised by the technology revolution or that sell products and services to help others improve their bottom line. Topping the list is unsung Celestica Inc., a contract manufacturer that churns out big earnings despite a unbelievably thin 3.7% operating margin Operating Margin A ratio used to measure a company's pricing strategy and operating efficiency. Calculated by: . IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , whose slow growth made it a no-show last year, came in at No.6 -- thanks to big demand for its consultants, who demystify de·mys·ti·fy tr.v. de·mys·ti·fied, de·mys·ti·fy·ing, de·mys·ti·fies To make less mysterious; clarify: an autobiography that demystified the career of an eminent physician. and make the most out of tech gear. And software maker Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. Inc. nabbed the No.14 spot because its sophisticated software helps companies better cater to customers. As for the Internet revolutionaries, gone from the Info Tech 100 are Web portal See portal. Yahoo!, e-commerce software pioneer BroadVision, and upstart Vignette Vignette A symbol or pictorial representation of the corporation on a stock certificate. Usually a complicated and artistic design, it is meant to make the counterfeiting of stock certificates as difficult as possible. , whose technology manages millions of Web pages on the fly. Past highfliers such as Exodus or Viant that specialized in one service -- say, hosting Web sites or offering advice about the Internet -- have also fallen off the list. Even the Big Three -- AOL Time Warner, Amazon.com, and eBay -- couldn't muster TO MUSTER, mar. law. By this term is understood to collect together and exhibit soldiers and their arms; it also signifies to employ recruits and put their names down in a book to enroll them. either enough profits or enough investor confidence to make the grade. Downturns, as it turns out, can be upturns for outsourcers. That's why the Info Tech 100 list is chock-full of outsourcing companies List of Outsourcing Firms<ref name="who" /> Revenue (USD) Logo Company Headquarters Country of Largest Employment Service $3300 million -- from contract manufacturers Samina Corp. (No.12) to chip foundry United Microelectronics (No.8) to payroll processor Automatic Data Processing Same as data processing. (No.46). On the flip side Flip side In the context of general equities, opposite side to a proposition or position (buy, if sell is the proposition and vice versa). of that efficiency equation are the companies that outsource as much as possible. Perhaps no seller of technology hardware has latched latch n. 1. A fastening, as for a door or gate, typically consisting of a bar that fits into a notch or slot and is lifted from either side by a lever or string. 2. on to this as much as Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. Inc. (No.56). Software makers such as Siebel, SAP (No.30) and PeopleSoft (No.33) make software that helps companies move quickly and control costs. And there's plenty of business for some specialty hardware makers such as Brocade brocade (brōkād`), fabric, originally silk, generally reputed to have been developed to a high state of perfection in the 16th and 17th cent. in France, Italy, and Spain. (No. 59) that enable companies to lower their costs. In information-technology services, big is back with old tech specialists such as EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. (No.48) and IBM going gangbusters. That's because they offer corporate clients the full menu of services, including the consulting expertise, software products, and giant data centers from which they can run outsourced tasks. To compile the Info Tech 100 list, BusinessWeek started with financial data from Standard & Poor's Compustat, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that has compiled data on 10,000 publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. . From that universe, the editors culled the tech leaders and then added non-U.S. companies suggested by a network of foreign correspondents foreign correspondent n. A correspondent who sends news reports or commentary from a foreign country for broadcast or publication. Noun 1. . To make the final cut, companies are measured by four criteria given equal weight: revenue growth, total size, shareholder return, and return on equity. BusinessWeek's June 18 issue featuring the "Info Tech 100" will be available online at www.businessweek.com and on newsstands beginning Monday, June 11, 2001. Following is the complete 2001 list of companies for BusinessWeek's "Info Tech 100." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 CELESTICA (CLS) 2 VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS (VZ) 3 SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA (SFA) 4 NVIDIA (NVDA) 5 CHINA MOBILE HONG KONG -ADR (CHL) 6 INTL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP (IBM) 7 TELEFONICA MOVILES -ADR (TEM) 8 UNITED MICROELECTRONICS -ADR (UMC) 9 AMERICA MOVIL -ADR (AMX) 10 CHECK POINT SOFTWARE (CHKP) 11 ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD) 12 SANMINA (SANM) 13 TELEFONOS DE MEXICO -SPON ADR (TMX) 14 SIEBEL SYSTEMS (SEBL) 15 NTT DOCOMO 16 HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY 17 NOKIA -ADR (NOK) 18 DDI (DDIC) 19 AMPHENOL (APH) 20 JABIL CIRCUIT (JBL) 21 SOLECTRON (SLR) 22 INTERNATIONAL RECTIFIER (IRF) 23 CIRRUS LOGIC (CRUS) 24 TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR -ADR (TSM) 25 FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL (FLEX) 26 STMICROELECTRONICS (STM) 27 MICROSOFT (MSFT) 28 INTEGRATED DEVICE TECH (IDTI) 29 SWISSCOM -SPON ADR (SCM) 30 SAP -ADR (SAP) 31 ALLTEL (AT) 32 AVX (AVX) 33 PEOPLESOFT (PSFT) 34 MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS (MXIM) 35 DELL COMPUTER (DELL) 36 FIRST DATA (FDC) 37 BCE (BCE) 38 KEMET (KEM) 39 CAP GEMINI 40 LINEAR TECHNOLOGY (LLTC) 41 KYOCERA -ADR (KYO) 42 ASUSTEK COMPUTER 43 CDW COMPUTER CENTERS (CDWC) 44 ANALOG DEVICES (ADI) 45 CERNER (CERN) 46 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING (ADP) 47 COMPAL ELECTRONICS 48 ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS (EDS) 49 SCANSOURCE (SCSC) 50 MICRON TECHNOLOGY (MU) 51 L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS (LLL) 52 EMC (EMC) 53 TECH DATA (TECD) 54 NIDEC 55 LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL -CL A (LXK) 56 JUNIPER NETWORKS (JNPR) 57 TELLABS (TLAB) 58 SUNGARD DATA SYSTEMS (SDS) 59 BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS (BRCD) 60 CIENA (CIEN) 61 ALTERA (ALTR) 62 AFFILIATED COMPUTER SVCS -CL A (ACS) 63 BEA SYSTEMS I (BEAS) 64 ACT MANUFACTURING (ACTM) 65 SUN MICROSYSTEMS (SUNW) 66 ORACLE (ORCL) 67 ADOBE SYSTEMS (ADBE) 68 MENTOR GRAPHICS (MENT) 69 VIA TECHNOLOGIES 70 AGERE SYSTEMS (AGR.A) 71 CONVERGYS (CVG) 72 MOBILE TELESYSTEMS -ADR (MBT) 73 FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR (FCS) 74 ITOCHU TECHNO-SCIENCE 75 CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS (CDN) 76 SABRE HOLDINGS -CL A (TSG) 77 MICROMUSE (MUSE) 78 QWEST COMMUNICATIONS (Q) 79 FISERV (FISV) 80 EPCOS -SPON ADR (EPC) 81 BROADWING (BRW) 82 DST SYSTEMS (DST) 83 IDT (IDT) 84 ATMEL (ATML) 85 COMVERSE TECHNOLOGY (CMVT) 86 CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS (CKP) 87 WIPRO -ADR (WIT) 88 PLEXUS (PLXS) 89 TRAVELOCITY.COM (TVLY) 90 PEREGRINE SYSTEMS (PRGN) 91 LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL -ADR (LOGIY) 92 VODAFONE GROUP -ADR (VOD) 93 EXTREME NETWORKS (EXTR) 94 ANRITSU C 95 RICOH 96 POWER-ONE (PWER) 97 TELEFONICA -ADR (TEF) 98 VISHAY INTERTECHNOLOGY (VSH) 99 MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL -ADR (MXICY) 100 INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES -ADR (IFX) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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