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Top 10 Companies Who Beat the Recession

There were 23 Fortune 500 companies in 2009 who actually posted significant profit growth in the face of one of the worst recessions of the last 50 years.  Who were they, and how did they do it?

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2010 Fortune 500 rank: 429
2009 profit growth: 65.1%
2009 revenue growth: 35.5%

Last year’s big task for O’Reilly chief Gregory Henslee was integrating the 1,350 CSK stores he bought in 2008.

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9. Merck

2010 Fortune 500 rank: 85
2009 profit growth: 65.2%
2009 revenue growth: 15.0%

This year, Merck CEO Richard Clark has a bitter pill to swallow: patents on two hypertension drugs and a brain tumor treatment - which together bring in about $3 billion annually - are set to expire.

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Top 10 Highest Paid Philly CEO’s

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The Greater Philadelphia Region is home to some of America’s largest and most successful public corporations.  With size and success, of course, comes fat bonuses for top executives.  Let’s take a look at a list of the Top 10 Highest Paid Philly CEO’s.  Total pay figures in this list include performance-based equity bonuses.

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