In the Lead
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Rice Energy, which went public in 2014, topped this year's rankings of firms based on revenue change.
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Heather Doyle-Conley is manager of the Peoples Natural Gas call center of the North Shore. The company is rolling out a system that utilizes a customer service app for smart phones.
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The sun rises over the Downtown Pittsburgh skyline.
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Jim Richter, executive director of the Hazelwood Initiative, and Rev. Leslie Boone, co-founder of Fishes and Loaves Cooperative Ministries, at the display of art outside the Initiative’s Second Avenue offices.
If you’re looking for a list ranking Pittsburgh as one of the top cities for startups, you likely won’t have long to wait.
What is propelling the Pittsburgh region into the future is an understanding that resting on past successes is a path to obsolescence.
The borough is rebounding from a devastating flood and an economic downturn.
Today, SDC Nutrition employs close to 40 people and recently moved into a new 60,000-square-foot facility.
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Jon O'Brien
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Stephen McKnight
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Cindy Fernandez-Nixon
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Candi Castleberry Singleton
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Andre Samuel
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Josephine Oria
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Tyra Oliver
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Todd Clossin
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Jane Valenta
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David Miller
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Rick Lucas
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Ethan Fellheimer
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Jay Whitacre
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Mark Visco Jr.
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Alan Russell
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Shian-Li McGuire
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Kris Kirk
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Jia Ji
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Rebecca Harris
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Curtis and Cassandra Brown
Newcomer Rice Energy is the only home-grown concern among the region's top-performing public companies.
The Pittsburgh ketchup company's 2014 revenue of $10.9 billion was down slightly from $11.5 billion in 2013.
The Top 10 included three Pittsburgh-based companies, one company based overseas, and one bank.
Top 50: How leading companies were selected
The categories analyzed include revenue change, net income change, stock price change and return on equity.
Places
Neighborhoods that found and pursued opportunities or are reinventing themselves.
- Beechview / Proponents hope neighborhood is finally turning a corner
- Hazelwood / Almono gives neighborhood a shot at recovery
- Carnegie / The comeback continues
- Uniontown / Fayette County business leaders lament area's image problem
Innovation
Established companies that saw opportunities and chased them.
- Turning around a nonprofit
- Matthews International grows with merger
- Former US Airways credit union reinvents itself
- Findlay firm SDC Nutrition goes global with nutrition supplements
- Redesigned respirator is breath of fresh air for MSA Safety
- Small candy-maker Edward Marc Chocolatier fulfills Costco's wishes in a snap
Creation
Businesses created because the founders saw opportunities others overlooked.
- Animal Nature a health food store for pets
- Family's bold gamble on high-tech system gives Industrial Scientific bright future
- Back pain frustration leads to new business
- TagSense technology aims to reduce spoilage when shipping foods and medicines
- Inventor Donny Beaver leans on other people's ideas for HalenHardy
- Graying market still needs a barber with Cammuso's Hair Salon
Community
Organizations, people that created or embraced opportunities that others passed by.
- Eagles helped open oil and gas market to PixController technology
- Aiming to give clients, lawyers a Fair Shake
- Strip District company pushes back against 'terrible T-shirts' of the world
- Fred Rogers' company carries on namesake's passion
- Robotic fleet to monitor bodies of water just needs a regulatory shift
- Pittsburgh Party Pedaler lets the good times roll
Commentary
Len Boselovic on the intersection of risk, investment and wealth
