Top company winners adapt to serve a changing world.

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To get an idea or the passion that Top Company winners bring to their work, consider the sentiments of Jeff Popiel, the CEO of Geotech Enviromental Equipment. His Denver-based company manufacture more than 60 categories of products ranging from circuit boards to extruded tubing and was the 2012 Top Company winner in the Manufacturing category.

If we're going to get of this economic recession or Funk or whatever you Want to call it, we can't just walk around giving each other backrubs and pedicures." Popiel exhorted in an interview with CotoradoBiz TV." We've got to make stuff!"

Of course, there are many of her needs to fill in the market besides "making stuff," but Popiel's spirited belief in his company and its role in an economic turnaround is an affirmation that any enterprise can draw inspiration from.

No less inspiring is the turnaround story Crocs Inc., the Top Company winner in the Consumer Business category. A few years ago. Croc's survival was in doubt, with a once-bedazzled market oversaturated with the company's rubbery clogs. So the Niwot-based company reinvented itself and now offers more than 30O styles of Crocs for every lifestyle and occasion. The result: Last year the company broke the $l billion mark in sales for the first. time.

Among the other Top Company profiles on the following pages, you'll learn about the Staying power of DCP Midstrcam. a major player in the natural-gas industry and still growing after 83 years in business, LMA Financial, which has defied the recession by increasing revenues ever) year For die past decade: and Donor Alliance. which helps bridge the recession by increasing revenues potential organ donor and recipient, in the process not only saving lives but bringing meaning to those grieving over the loss of a loved one.

Those are just a few of the winners in 14 industry categories. Previously the Top Company PROGRAM CONSISTED OF 11 categories: three additional categories Consulting and Professional Services Energy/Natural Resources, and...