Press ReleaseAugust 25, 2006BUSINESS.COM NAMED AS ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES BY INC. 500Top Search Engine and Directory for Businesses Ranked as Fifth Fastest Growing Media Company in the 2006 Inc. 500Los Angeles, Calif., August 25, 2006 – Inc. magazine recently announced its 25th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Business.com, the leading search engine and directory for business, was ranked as the fifth fastest growing media company on the list, with three-year growth of 520 percent. Business.com helps small business decision-makers solve their most pressing business problems and realize their most compelling opportunities. As the largest business-to-business search engine and directory, Business.com makes it easy to find the most useful business websites, products, and services saving our users time and money. Business.com's proprietary taxonomy and classification system of over 65,000 business categories allows professionals to intuitively locate the most relevant and authoritative business information, without consumer clutter. "It is an honor to be named to the Inc. 500 list and a testament to the hard work of all our employees," said Jake Winebaum, CEO of Business.com. "More and more, small businesses are turning to the internet for help in solving their business problems. Business.com's growth is the result of our ability to help these small business leaders solve those problems quickly and efficiently." Business.com attracts more than 3.2 million diverse business owners and decision makers and reaches another 28 million through its distribution network, which includes top-tier publishing partners such as Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, Businessweek.com, and Internet.com. The 2006 Inc. 500, as revealed in the September issue of Inc., reported the most robust bunch of companies the magazine has ever compiled, with aggregate revenue of $19.7 billion, up from $16.5 billion last year and $12.9 billion in 2000. The two largest companies on this year’s Inc. 500 are the biggest ever to make the list – No. 170 Western Refining ($3.4 billion in revenue) and No. 376 Newegg.com ($1.26 billion) – and the third and fourth companies in Inc. 500 history to crack the billion-dollar mark. In all, 14 companies topped $200 million in annual revenue, compared with 11 last year. Most important, the 2006 Inc. 500 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 90,000 jobs since those companies were founded. This year’s list is the first to include businesses that started up immediately before and after September 11, 2001 – including the No. 1 company and 20 companies in the top 50 – as well as many companies that had to raise capital after the dot-com bubble burst. In total, 104 companies listed on this year’s Inc. 500 were started after 2000. "If you want to find out which companies are going to change the world, look at the Inc. 500," said Inc. Editor Jane Berentson. "These are the most innovative, dynamic, fast-growth companies in the nation, the ones coming up with solutions to some of our most intractable ills, creating systems that let us conduct business faster and easier, and manufacturing products we soon discover we can't live without. The Inc. 500 list is Inc. magazine's tribute to American business ingenuity and ambition." About Inc. Inc.com, the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, delivers real solutions for today's innovative company builders. It provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing, and technology. Inc., a Mansueto Ventures LLC publication, inspires and informs, with cutting-edge coverage that reflects our readers' energy, brashness, and imagination.
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