Jabil tops list of bay area's best
For the third time in four years, the St. Petersburg maker of circuit board assemblies is the best-performing local, public company. Time Warner is the top employer with headquarters elsewhere.

The list From Echelon International Corp. to Kaydon Corp., from ABR Information Services Inc. to Medical Manager Corp., public companies based in the Tampa Bay area have moved away or been acquired in recent years.

The outsiders
Increasingly, executives far from the Tampa Bay area are pulling the strings that control local business decisions.

What it takes: growing a bay area business
What will it take to create the Times 50 of 2010?

Most of the large bay area employers are based elsewhere
But the future isn't bleak. Local companies such as Jabil Circuit Inc. and Intermedia Communications Inc. are growing.

Choosing the Times 50 companies
This year the St. Petersburg Times used performance-based measures to rank two groups of public companies.

Times 50 superlatives
Among public companies based in the Tampa Bay area ...

Test yourself
Can you identify these Times 50 companies?