Top 100

Look at the latest list of the area's TOP 100 privately-held companies, and one thing stands out: growth. During the year 2000, revenues increased more than 11 percent to top $4.1 billion -- about the same amount it took 8.5 million visitors to spend in New Orleans last year. The employee base grew 4.1 percent to more than 20,000 workers -- half the population of Webster Parish.

The second annual top 100 list, commissioned by The Times and Hibernia National Bank and compiles by the LSUS Center for Business and Economic Research, acts as snapshot of our economy by profiling the biggest earners of the previous year.