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FAST 25: Smart hiring propels Fast 25 companies
The ideal new employee is flexible, eager to learn, and a good communicator, say those who lead this year’s Fast 25.
The ideal new employee is flexible, eager to learn, and a good communicator, say those who lead this year’s Fast 25.
Eight years ago, Mark Hall bought Tech Trades out of receivership. The timing, he said, turned out to be perfect.
3-year growth: 72 percent 2014 revenue: $2.7 million Changing the business: Like many companies, Bottom-Line Performance experienced a big downturn in 2008-2009. The company was 100-percent service-based, creating training programs for customers to support product launches or customer education. President Sharon Boller said she realized that “survival and growth would have to come by diversifying—offering […]
President Charles Haywood said Mansfield-King’s growth can be traced to innovation and execution.
The Etica Group, which started 10 years ago as an architecture and engineering firm, has morphed into a company with four core areas: architecture design (renovation and rehab for higher education and industrial/pharmaceutical work); engineering design (sanitary sewer and storm water projects); a building envelope division (maintaining exteriors); and construction observation.
A growing economy, low interest rates, available capital and pent-up demand are some of the reasons real estate developer Lauth Group Inc. cites for its growth.
Over 13 years, enVista has regularly added services to help clients reduce cost and eliminate waste from supply chains.
It’s tough to compete against Staples, Office Depot and Office Max, Steve Nahmias, a principal, said, but “a lot of companies and organizations in Indiana prefer to do business with a local company."
MS Cos. provides support, staffing and technology solutions for automotive and manufacturing in areas such as continual training, career development, and competitive pay and benefits for employees.
Sun King has grown so much since its founding in 2009 that, at the end of 2014, it was forced to stop distributing its beer outside central Indiana because of laws limiting production capacity.
When you have a health care business for which “there’s a tremendous need and virtually no product”—which Mainstreet founder and CEO Zeke Turner said is what his company has—growth potential would seem unlimited.
If you’re going to hire DeveloperTown, Managing Partner Michael Cloran said, do so at the start of a project.
CEO Yousuf Mahomed said his supply chain company tries to keep things simple: Grow with existing customers and increase the customer base.
Chief Operating Officer Paul Rothwell estimates that half of SmartIT’s growth comes from being able to provide more services for its existing clients.
Vice President of Sales Corey Groepper said Fitzmark has grown its logistics business by gaining new customers and taking care of the old ones.
MG principals Mike and Tammy Goins and their employees spent a lot of time in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, in 2014, building restaurants for the owners of Bakersfield (the taco/tequila/whiskey restaurant that’s also on Mass Ave in Indianapolis), Fusian (casual fish restaurant) and Krueger’s Tavern (homemade sausage and craft beer).
President Tiffany Sauder said that by giving clients marketing materials that combine “Silicon Valley intellect and Madison Avenue creativity, and forcing a collision,” business has continued to grow at Element Three.
Like Uber, which owns no cars, and Airbnb, which owns no hotels, Spot Freight owns no trucks.
A lot of hard work, a little bit of luck and a better economy: Those are the reasons behind the success of RenCon, said co-owner Jeremy Bergunder.
Michael Simmons thinks parking should be convenient, but not free.