Wild Oats' buyout offset by notable newcomers.

Wild Oats' acceptance of a buyout offer by Whole Foods and Western Union's spinoff from First Data were the biggest newsmakers among Colorado's publicly traded companies in the past year. But there were others.

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Among them, two companies with combined 2006 revenues of more than $1 billion joined the state's public-company roster. Denver-based energy firm Veneco Inc. went public in November, and Woodward Governor Co., relocated to Fort Collins from Rockford, Ill., early this year.

Veneco, an acquirer and developer of oil and gas interests, employs 250 and last year posted revenues of $280 million.

Woodward Governor, a market leader in fuel-control systems for jet engines and other industrial electric equipment, generated sales of $855 million last year. The company employs 3,700 total and about 1,100 in Fort Collins and Loveland.

TOP 100 COLORADO-BASED PUBLIC COMPANIES List compiled by Sara Williams Ranked by revenues 2007 '06 '06 Sales '05 Sales Rank Company Ticker Rank (000's) (000's) 1 Qwest Communications Q 1 $13,923,000 $13,903,000 International Inc. 2 Echostar DISH 4 9,818,486 8,425,501 Communications Corp. 3 Liberty Media Corp. LCAPA 5 8,613,000 7,646,000 4 First Data Corp. FDC 2 7,076,400 10,568,200 5 Ball Corp. BLL 6 6,621,500 5,751,200 6 Liberty Global Inc. LBTYA 8 6,487,500 5,151,332 7 Molson Coors Brewing TAP 7 5,845,000 5,506,906 Co. 8 Newmont Mining Corp. NEM 10 4,987,000 4,406,000 9 MDC Holdings Inc. MDC 9 4,801,742 4,884,100 10 Western Union Co. WU 4,470,200 3,987,900 11 Level 3 Communications LVLT 12 3,378,000 3,613,000 Inc. 12 UAP Holding Corp. UAPH 16 2,727,789 2,506,730 13 Prologis Trust PLD 17 2,463,909 1,954,000 14 Emergency Medical EMS 1,934,200 1,655,500 Services Corp 15 Apartment Investment & AIV 19 1,690,994 1,408,500 Management Co. 16 Cimarex Energy Co. XEC 21 1,267,144 1,118,622 17 Teletech Holdings Inc. TTEC 22 1,211,297 1,086,673 18 Wild Oats Markets Inc. OATS 20 1,183,022 1,123,957 19 Archstone-Smith Trust ASN 25 1,133,586 946,902 20 Janus Capital Group JNS 24 1,026,700 999,500 21 Ciber Inc. CBR 26 995,837 956,009 22 Frontier Airlines FRNT 28 994,273 833,600 Holdings Inc. 23 Samsonite Corp. SAMC.OB 27 966,886 902,896 24 Woodward Governor Co. WGOV 854,515 827,726 25 Vail Resorts Inc. MTN 29 838,852 810,987 26 Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG 35 822,930 627,695 Inc. 27 Forest Oil Corp. FST 23 819,992 1,072,045 28 MacDermid Inc. MRD 32 817,600 738,000 29 Time Warner Telecom TWTC 34 812,400 708,700 Inc. 30 DPM Midstream Partners DPM 795,800 784,500 LP 31 St. Mary Land & SM 31 787,700 739,600 Exploration Co. 32 Whiting Petroleum WLL 37 786,328 540,448 Corp. 33 Markwest Hydrocarbon MWP 33 785,722 714,177 Inc. 34 UDR Inc. UDR 698,100 701,200 35 Discovery Holding Co. DISCA 688,087 694,509 36 Red Robin Gourmet RRGB 40 618,721 486,023 Burgers Inc. 37 MarkWest Energy MWE 38 575,952 499,024 Partners LP 38 IHS Inc. IHS 41 550,770 476,117 39 Westmoreland Coal Co. WLB 43 449,100 362,000 40 Advanced Energy AEIS 45 410,742 325,482 Industries Inc. 41 CSG Systems CSGS 42 383,106 377,317 International Inc. 42 Bill...