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FORTUNE 500 2006  
FORTUNE 500    
Faces of the FORTUNE 1,000
In this photographic essay shot by Robert Maxwell, meet the real people behind some of the fastest-growing companies on the FORTUNE 1,000.
By Abrahm Lustgarten, FORTUNE reporter
April 4, 2006: 3:42 PM EDT

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - Consider the Fortune 1000 as a very long ladder.

The companies near the top are duly celebrated. But drop down a ways and you'll find new names jostling to be America's great corporations of the future.

FORTUNE 500 2006
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1. Exxon Mobil 6. ConocoPhillips
2. Wal-Mart 7. GE
3. GM 8. Citigroup
4. Chevron 9. AIG
5. Ford 10. IBM
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This is where, as one CEO recently put it, you can watch a company before the law of big numbers starts to slow things down. Change happens fast, upsets are still possible, and momentum hints at what's to come.

Many of the six companies portrayed here are on the Fortune 1,000 for the first time; each grew revenues by 30 to 85 percent last year, making them some of the fastest growing companies on our list.

Meet the faces of the FORTUNE 1,000

And, like every great company, each one has a compelling story about real people, and a few bits of trivia that might surprise you. Top of page

Next: See the 2006 FORTUNE 500

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