Forbes: America’s 100 Best Small Companies

[Coyote]

100 Best Small Companies

#29  Gordmans

Profile

Gordmans Stores, Inc. is an everyday low-price department store retailer featuring a selection of the brands, fashions and styles at up to 60% of department and specialty store prices every day. The Company's merchandise assortment includes apparel for all ages, accessories, footwear and home fashions. As of January 29, 2011, the Company operated 68 stores under the trade name Gordmans located in 16 primarily Midwestern states situated in a variety of shopping center developments, including regional enclosed shopping malls, lifestyle centers and power centers with a total of four million square feet and an average store size of 58,300 square feet. The stores are consists of 51 prototype locations with an average age and size of seven years and 55,000 square feet, respectively, and 17 legacy locations with an average age and size of 22 years and 68,400 square feet, respectively.


#90   Lindsay

Profile

Lindsay Corporation (Lindsay) is a designer and manufacturer of self-propelled center pivot and lateral move irrigation systems, which are used in the agricultural industry to increase or stabilize crop production, while conserving water, energy, and labor. The Company also manufactures and markets various infrastructure products, including moveable barriers for traffic lane management, crash cushions, road marking and other road safety devices. In addition, the Company's infrastructure segment produces large diameter steel tubing and railroad signals and structures, and provides outsourced manufacturing and production services for other companies. On August 31, 2010, the Company acquired Digitec, Inc. (Digitec).

[Brad]

I never thought Lindsay would qualify as a small company.

[Coyote]

I never thought Lindsay would qualify as a small company.

"Publicly traded companies with annual revenue between $5 million and $1 billion ranked based on earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity."
Gordmans = $579 Million
Lindsay = $540 Million