Top Growing Private Mid-Market Firms Announced for Q4 2009

Chicago, IL, March 10, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Today, the Entrex Private Company Index (PCI) announced its “Top Growth Company” slate for Q4 2009. Collectively, this group of ten high-growth companies experienced a median revenue spike of 52%, and average growth of 63%, over their own Q4 2008 revenue earnings.

This group of honorees represents a variety of industry sectors that include technology, consulting, manufacturing, retail and finance. Annual company revenues in this group range from $1 million to $100 million.

Nine of the ten companies have been previously noted for a PCI Top Growth Award in past quarters—indicating to analysts that this is a group of companies to watch. It is The Avondale Group’s first appearance on the Top Growth list.

Q4 2009 Entrex Private Company Index (PCI) Top Growth Companies:

- ABC Packaging Direct (abc-packaging.com) Cleveland, Ohio
- The Avondale Group (build12.com/avondale.html) Rolling Meadows, Illinois
- The Connors Group (cg3.com) Los Angeles, California
- EssentiaLink (essentialink.com) Westminster, Colorado
- High Performance Technologies Inc. (hpti.com) Reston, Virginia
- MicroPact Engineering (micropact.com) Herndon, Virginia
- Nation Link Wireless (mynationlink.com) Franklin, Tennessee
- NSTAR Global Services (nstarglobalservices.com) Clayton, North Carolina
- TicketCity.com (ticketcity.com) Austin, Texas
- Uniguest (uniguest.com) Nashville, Tennessee

Current and past quarterly top growth companies can be viewed at www.privatecompanyindex.com.

About The Private Company Index:
Published monthly, the Entrex Private Company Index (PCI) is a proprietary benchmarking tool that measures revenue performance in the sector of private companies with $250 million or less in annual revenue. The PCI is recognized by Investment professionals and financial media as a leading and authoritative source on private company revenue performance (www.privatecompanyindex.com).

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