If you want more information on PROFIT Magazine's new list of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies (see previous post), here are the most likely links.
Click here for the "overview" story that explains what the PROFIT 100 is and what it means.
Click here for the PROFIT 100 rankings.
Here are the listings on a handy downloadable Excel spreadsheet.
Here's the profile of the No. 1 company. I was pleased to be asked to write it.
Here's Cam Cornell's story on P100 best management practices. Lots of great ideas you can borrow.
And here is the Next 100 - Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies, #101-200.
The magazine includes some enlightening interviews with past PROFIT 100 entrepreneurs, in celebration of the PROFIT 100's 20th anniversary. I'll let you know when they post that. (Or you can buy it on the newsstand in handy paper form.)
The issue also includes editor Ian Portsmouth's editorial grumbling about the year that PROFIT ranked 300 companies. So it wasn't one of my better ideas...
But it was 2000. That's the sort of thing people did back then.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Who are Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies?
My column in today’s National Post takes a look at the PROFIT 100, the list of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies that was just published by PROFIT Magazine.
(First, thanks to my Post editors, for letting me analyze another publisher’s project. Too often these days, the media giants cover mainly their own media partners [e.g., Globe and CTV, Canwest and Global TV], and ignore the worthwhile stuff in competing media.)
The PROFIT 100 tells us a lot about today’s economy: where the opportunities are, and why entrepreneurship is a much more dynamic force than your parents ever taught you it would be. The 100 companies on the PROFIT 100 enjoyed average five-year revenue growth of 1,800%. Only a handful of these companies existed 20 years ago, but now they account for $7.9 billion in export revenues.
A full 42% provide business services; just 19 are in manufacturing. There are 12 software developers, and lots of companies providing other high-tech products and services, including Research in Motion, which placed on the list for a record-tying eighth time.
But the No. 1 company is a daycare supplier: Kids & Company, of Markham, Ont., which had five-year growth of 12,639%.
Proof that opportunity is everywhere.
You can read my Post column here.
(First, thanks to my Post editors, for letting me analyze another publisher’s project. Too often these days, the media giants cover mainly their own media partners [e.g., Globe and CTV, Canwest and Global TV], and ignore the worthwhile stuff in competing media.)
The PROFIT 100 tells us a lot about today’s economy: where the opportunities are, and why entrepreneurship is a much more dynamic force than your parents ever taught you it would be. The 100 companies on the PROFIT 100 enjoyed average five-year revenue growth of 1,800%. Only a handful of these companies existed 20 years ago, but now they account for $7.9 billion in export revenues.
A full 42% provide business services; just 19 are in manufacturing. There are 12 software developers, and lots of companies providing other high-tech products and services, including Research in Motion, which placed on the list for a record-tying eighth time.
But the No. 1 company is a daycare supplier: Kids & Company, of Markham, Ont., which had five-year growth of 12,639%.
Proof that opportunity is everywhere.
You can read my Post column here.
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