Maxtor Corp

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Companies listed alphabetically with their rankings on The Times 100, Sales 100, Market Value 100, Growth 100 and Employer 100 lists. Mkt. Times Sales Value Grwth Emply Company 100 100 100 100 100 20th Century Industries 64 79 81 3Com Corp. 85 52 72 Abbey Healthcare Group Inc. 3 76 ABM Industries 94 17 ADAC Laboratories 16 91 Adaptec Inc. 39 85 86 Adia Services Inc. 89 Adobe Systems Inc. 53 76 Advanced Micro Devices 44 61 34 48 Airtouch Communications 57 9 95 Allergan Inc.

NOT SO LONG AGO, any talk of an economic recovery in California would probably have focused on the aerospace or construction industries. Or perhaps the need to boost international trade. But who would have thought that the seeds to the state's fledgling recovery would be planted in such unfamiliar soil as "reduced-instruction-set computing" or "non-impact printing peripherals"? But it is such technology that helped Hewlett-Packard Co.

When Laurence R. Hootnick took over as president two years ago, computer disk drive manufacturer Maxtor Corp. seemed headed for a crash. The San Jose company had a tired product line. A merger had left the company divided rather than strengthened. Even worse, Maxtor was nearly out of cash. "There was almost nothing left," Hootnick sighed. "The gloomiest day was when I found out we didn't have any money." Hootnick, however, engineered a comeback.

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Price Co. knows a lot about bargains. After all, the San Diego-based retail chain has made its mark by selling name-brand goods at rock-bottom prices. And the company's shareholders also are getting a good deal. Price Co.'s performance--based on an analysis of stock price appreciation and dividends paid to shareholders--ranks it among the top third of California's biggest 100 companies, according to the Los Angeles Times' annual survey of corporate performance and pay.