Type: Public
On the web: http://www.gardnerdenver.com
Employees: 6,100
Employee growth: (6.2%)

Gardner Denver doesn't grow flowers in the Mile High City. The company makes blowers, petroleum pumps, and a variety of compressors, such as reciprocating, rotary screw, and sliding vane compressors, as well as positive displacement and centrifugal blowers. Compressed air products are its principal offering. Manufacturing plants and industrial facilities use the compressors to produce durable goods, process petroleum and pharmaceuticals, and treat wastewater. Gardner Denver also makes vacuum products, fluid-transfer products, and well-servicing pumps for oil and natural gas companies. It is adding new lines, such as water-jetting products. About two-thirds of the company's sales come from outside the US.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $1,895.1M
One year growth: 6.6%
Net income: $173.0M

Officers:
Chairman: Frank J. Hansen
President, CEO, and Director: Barry L. Pennypacker
VP and CFO: Michael M. Larsen

Competitors:
Atlas Copco
Federal Signal
Ingersoll-Rand

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