{"id":7042,"date":"2010-11-15T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2010-11-17T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:17:18","slug":"ruger-named-one-of-americas-100-best-small-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/ruger-named-one-of-americas-100-best-small-companies\/7042\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruger Named One of America&#8217;s 100 Best Small Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rugerlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7043\" title=\"rugerlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rugerlogo-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rugerlogo-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rugerlogo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Southport, CT November 15, 2010 &#8211; Forbes magazine has named Sturm, Ruger  &amp; Co., Inc. (NYSE: RGR) one of &#8220;America&#8217;s 100 Best Small Companies&#8221;  in 2010. The list appeared in the November 8th issue of Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud to be recognized by Forbes as one of America&#8217;s 100 Best  Small Companies,&#8221; said Ruger CEO Michael Fifer. &#8220;We owe a great deal of  thanks to our loyal customers and dedicated employees for contributing  to our success. Because of our innovative product introductions and  continuously improving American manufacturing, we have seen our sales  growth and earnings per share improve significantly over the last four  years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Forbes list of 100 Best Small Companies in America only considers  companies that have been publicly traded for at least a year, pull in  annual revenue between $5 million and $1 billion, and boast a stock  price no lower than $5 per share.  Forbes also factored in the stock  performance of each company compared with that of its peers.  The  rankings are based on earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity  in the past 12 months and over five years. During the past five years,  Ruger saw earnings growth of 470%; sales growth of 86%; and annual  return on equity increase from 4% to 34%.<\/p>\n<p>Ruger&#8217;s award winning products include the LCP\u2122 .380 Auto Pistol, the  LCR\u2122 .38 Special +P Revolver, and the SR9c\u2122 Compact 9mm Pistol. All of  Ruger&#8217;s rugged and reliable firearms are made in America in  manufacturing facilities in Newport, NH and Prescott, AZ. For more  information on the extensive line of Ruger firearms, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.Ruger.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>About Sturm, Ruger<br \/>\nSturm, Ruger was founded in 1949 and is one of the nation&#8217;s leading  manufacturers of high-quality firearms for the commercial sporting  market.  Sturm, Ruger is headquartered in Southport, CT, with  manufacturing facilities located in Newport, NH and Prescott, AZ.<\/p>\n<p>The Company may, from time to time, make forward-looking statements and  projections concerning future expectations.  Such statements are based  on current expectations and are subject to certain qualifying risks and  uncertainties, such as market demand, sales levels of firearms,  anticipated castings sales and earnings, the need for external financing  for operations or capital expenditures, the results of pending  litigation against the Company, the impact of future firearms control  and environmental legislation, and accounting estimates, any one or more  of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those  projected.  Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these  forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made.  The  Company undertakes no obligation to publish revised forward-looking  statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date such  forward-looking statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of  subsequent unanticipated events.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southport, CT November 15, 2010 &#8211; Forbes magazine has named Sturm, Ruger &amp; Co., Inc. (NYSE: RGR) one of &#8220;America&#8217;s 100 Best Small Companies&#8221; in 2010. The list appeared in the November 8th issue of Forbes. &#8220;We are proud to be recognized by Forbes as one of America&#8217;s 100 Best Small Companies,&#8221; said Ruger CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":7043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1230,186],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-americas-100-best-small-companies","tag-ruger-firearms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}