Filed under: Sustainability
Ryzex is one of four Whatcom County businesses who appeared in Inc Magazine’s September listing of the fastest growing 5,000 companies in America. Also joining us are Bellingham neighbors Logos Research Systems (ranked 3,061) and Toolhouse Design Co. (3,959) and Blaine based TC Trans (3,297). Ryzex slid in the rankings at 4,928.
Inc. bases the 5,000 ranking on the percentage of revenue growth from 2003 through 2006. Each company must be U.S.-based and privately held. Revenue in 2003 must be a minimum of $200,000 and revenue in 2006 must be a minimum of $2 million.
Ryzex posted a 24.8 percent increase during the period, and currently employs 360 team members. While lots of companies are obviously growing by leaps and bounds and many are growing more quickly than us; we are proud of the fact that we’ve been able to grow Ryzex in a profitable and sustainable way.
We are not green because it’s cool to be green, the core of our business is based on the idea of keeping our customers’ technology solutions in use as long as they need. Inc.’s Green 50 was a nod to those companies, and Ryzex landed on that list earlier this year. We think it’ll be a great day when the two lists are flipped–when Inc. publishes a list of the top 5,000 sustainable companies.
Filed under: Inspiration
According to Scolastic, Inc, today is the official birthday of the Internet. On August 1, 1990, “British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was looking for an easy way to share information with other scientists, first suggested what became the World Wide Web. A computer programmer from Belgium, Robert Cailliau, helped him design the first Web browser. Later that year they came up with the idea of a URL, or Web-site address.” Immagine where we would be today if we didn’t have the internet. Immagine where we will be in another 17 years!
