While she was boss, the company's share price went up threefold and in 2013 she became Britain's highest paid chief executive on the FTSE 100 company list.
Further research could try to solicit responses from all SMEs on the company list for a higher response rate.
Corporations such as Koch Industries and Cargill have maintained their private status since long before Forbes published its inaugural private company list in 1985.
It is a safe bet that Chrysler, America's third-largest automaker, will not grace our private company list for too many years.
In contrast, casino operator Harrah's Entertainment went private in January of 2008, and Goodman Manufacturing, an air conditioning and heating products manufacturer, rejoined the private company list this year, after a nearly three-year stint as a public company.
Another mistake made by the Brand X company list: confining the rankings to the U.S. Is it possible to decree that Sony is a foreign company and News Corp. is domestic?
Investors in that round had been promised twice their money back should the company list, with seniority over all other shareholders.
We were on the Inc. 500 fastest-growing company list for two years in a row, there had been so many great times and our processes had improved immensely.
