New this year to the Star 200
• The new Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain resort joins the Star 200 with 400 employees.
• ISS Facility Services is rejoining the Star 200 after participating several years ago.
• MEB Management Services, a women-owned property management firm, joins the Star 200 with 259 full-time equivalent employees.
• TASC Inc., a Sierra Vista defense contractor, joins the Star 200 with 343 FTE jobs. TASC was formed from a business sold off by Northrop Grumman Corp. and includes former Northrop employees.
• Westmed Inc., a Tucson-based maker of anesthesia and respiratory devices, joins the Star 200 at 130 full-time equivalent employees, enough to make our list of other responses.
Gone from the Star 200 are:
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• TeleTech Inc., a call-center company that closed up shop in Tucson after losing a major contract. APAC Customer Services picked up many of TeleTech's former employees.
• Arizona Mail Order / Old Pueblo Traders (also known as Old Pueblo Traders) wound down operations here following an acquisition.
• Opinion Research Corp., which closed in January 2009, as noted in last year's Star 200.
