ANY WAY YOU SLICE It

TRADITIONALLY, INDUSTRYWEEK PRESENTED ITS ANNUAL list of the world's 1,000 biggest manufacturers in the pages of the magazine. The list, complete with 6,000 data points (rank, company name, revenue, net income, profit margin and revenue growth for 1,000 companies), sprawled over 10 pages and offered

Another golden nugget that was missing from the static list: industries. Even if IW included the information in its magazine list, there is no easy way to view all the companies in printing and publishing, beverages or chemicals-unless, of course, you sit down with a pen and tick off all the companies by hand. To save readers time and to ensure accuracy (no offense, but human errors do occur), IW decided to present this year's IW 1000 list exclusively online. The searchable IW 1000 database has always resided on www.industryweek.com (located under the Rankings tab) and has always enabled users to slice and dice the information.