America's 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Revealed
5000 Fast-Growth Companies to Quell Your Recession Fears -
List Reports Aggregate Revenue of $185 Billion
Optima Associates, Inc ranks No. 1021 on the 2008 Inc. 5,000
With Three-Year Sales Growth of over 300%
NEW YORK, August 29, 2008 - Inc. today ranked Optima Associates, Inc. No. 1021 on its annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list is the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy - America's independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.
"Our second annual Inc. 5000 continues the most ambitious project in business journalism," said Inc. 5000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. "The Inc. 5000 gives an unrivalled portrait of young, underreported companies across all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models, as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth."
Optima Associates, Inc. a De Pere, WI Operations and Risk Management consulting firm provides lean enterprise, environmental management and safety related services to organizations throughout the US. Clients include Fortune 500 companies to small family held businesses in the manufacturing, transportation and private higher education marketplace. Steve Hirt, founder of Optima along with partners Pete Lemke and Roger Wolfe attribute their growth to a talented team of consultants who provide their clients high value-added services resulting in increased employee performance, sales and profit growth.
The 5000 companies that made the list reported aggregate revenue of $185 billion and median three-year growth of 147 percent. Most important, the 2008 Inc. 5000 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 826,033 jobs since those companies were founded. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and a list of the fastest-growing companies that can be sorted by industry and region can be found at www.inc5000.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT: Steven M. Hirt, 920-425-1005, ext 306, Steven.hirt@optimatcp.com