Women’s companies recognized

The list of the nation’s top 500 women-owned companies includes three from the St. Louis area. Working Women Magazine lists Phoenix, Textile of Earth City, which makes materials for the health-care industry; Rose International of Chesterfield, a software consulting firm; and Build-a-Bear Workshop, which runs stores in shopping malls where kids make their own stuffed animals. The magazine says women own and operate about 40 percent of businesses in this country, producing more than 3.6-trillion dollars in revenues.