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Catch the International Flight

First, the good news. The stock market crash of 2008 lasted through March 9, 2009, but things improved rapidly after that. From March through July of last year, Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index gained 35.62%, enjoying its best five-month run since 1938. For the entire year, the average U.S. stock fund returned about 33%, and virtually every category of mutual fund tracked by Morningstar wound up with positive results.

Pipeline to Power: BE’s Industrial/Service Company of the Year

“Bad times are great times for small, innovative, and emergent businesses to take advantage of instability in the marketplace,” says Hightower, who says the company does not have an 8(a) federal designation but is registered with the National Minority Supplier Development Council and has a minority business enterprise (MBE) in select states. “GM gave us the opportunity with 48 hours to implement it … nationally. We had carriers step up and we outperformed our suppliers. We worked 24 hours for two to three weeks but we never let any plant run out of fuel.”

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