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| | Island companies make list of area's largest private firms |
 | | Coming in second was Advance Publications, which owns the Staten Island Advance, Condé Nast Publications, Parade Publications, Fairchild Publications, American City Business Journals, the Golf Digest Companies, and newspapers in more than 20 cities. |
 | | Advance Publications also has extensive interests in cable television, as well as in Internet sites that are related to its print publications. |
 | | Crain's estimated that Advance Publications has revenue of $7.3 billion, the same as in 2005, and 30,000 employees. |
| www.silive.com /business/advance/index.ssf?/base/business/116498252110840.xml&coll=1 (349 words) |
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