Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 highlights West Michigan's growing companies

Inc. Magazine has named several West Michigan companies to its 2010 Inc. 5000 list. Companies must be privately held, growing, and generating annual revenue of at least $2 million.

According to excerpts from the story:

It will probably come as no surprise to savvyInc. readers that it's not as easy to find growing companies as it was a couple years ago. In 2008, the second year of Inc.'s expanded list of 5,000 growing privately-held companies, there was much enthusiasm as firms across the country showed eagerness to be part of our list. The three-year growth rate of the company at the No. 5,000 rank doubled from 20 percent in 2007 to 40 percent in 2008. This year, the enthusiasm was still there, but very often, the growth was not.

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