According to a report by IBISWorld, a market-research firm, hot-sauce production is one of America's ten fastest-growing industries, along with solar-panel manufacturing and online eyeglass sales.
And in fact, huge law firms, hot areas of practice and outsized salaries at top firms are fairly recent developments.
FOR Jayne and Joan Michaels, the twins behind the Manhattan interior design firm 2Michaels, hot summer days mean it's time for the beach.
It is this network that has also landed the firm in hot water, with a major outage in October 2011 and a number of smaller ones since.
Almost daily, it seems, sales people call on James Sabry and other executives at his biotechnology firm offering hot bargains.
Married, 3 children He retired from a flagging Novell in 1994 amid plunging stock price, but firm is hot again, this time with software to set up internal office networks.
Although Nokia had previously promised to bring its gaming service to the firm's hot N73 (they've sold roughly 20 million of these badboys), as of today, all bets are off.
Among the firm's hot items this year: the game board and figurine version of kiddie TV star Ni hao kai-lan, the bi-lingual, Chinese follow-up to the enormously popular Dora the Explorer, who engages kids in both English and Spanish.
Meanwhile, business consultants such as Accenture, PwC Consulting and even McKinsey sold new business strategies, often tied to downstream technology investments, designed to turn ageing firms into hot, young growth companies.
More recently, and after the S.E.C. had announced its investigation into how major brokerage firms allocated hot stock offerings during the bull market, Mr. Spitzer jumped into that battle.
The Watch List Life sciences firms: still hot.
