In 1988, the company was recognized by Forbes as being one of the nation's 200 best-run small companies.

But it still dominates its industry and is one of the best-run companies in any line of business.

Analysts think it is one of the best-run companies in the business.

This is one of the best-run companies on the Internet today.

The discrepancy makes now an ideal time for long-term investors to buy some of the nation's best-run companies.

LAYOFFS are difficult to carry out humanely even at the best-run companies.

Carnival offers the lure of cash along with some stock in one of the industry's best-run companies.

But even the largest or best-run companies, Mr. Clark said, are not immune to theft, particularly inside jobs.

Even the best-run companies make mistakes, and its fair to say that Apple messed up on the way they handled this one.

In 2001, it was one of 11 profiled in "Good to Great," a best-selling business book about the best-run public companies.