Sept. 11, 2007 – Newberry ranked on new Inc. 5,000 list of fast-growing companies

After increasing revenue by 42.2 percent in the last three years, The Newberry Group, Inc. has been included among the fastest-growing private companies in the country.

The company is ranked on Inc. Magazine’s first-ever Inc. 5,000 list.

Newberry has been ranked among the fastest growing IT companies on the Inc. 500 list every year since 2004. The Inc. 5,000 list, an extension of Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list, includes businesses from all sectors and catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500. Newberry’s rank this year was 4,533.

“The Newberry Group has been able to grow so substantially over the last three years due to our continued commitment to excellence, our passion for building technology solutions for our clients and, without a doubt, our talented team of professionals,” Chairman and CEO Brenda D. Newberry said. “We’ve developed and provided many high-level technical capabilities as we’ve worked on contracts with government agencies in the past 10 years. Our current strategy for continued growth is to bring those capabilities to the commercial sector while continuing to expand our work for our existing federal clients and additional government agencies.”

The award comes as no surprise to Newberry clients like Kevin Trokey, Chief Operating Officer at St. Louis insurance firm Welsch, Flatness & Lutz, Inc.

“This recognition is certainly well deserved. We had made a huge investment in a custom program for one of our operating units that never worked as designed and hadn’t been properly documented by the firm who wrote it. The Newberry Group came in evaluated the program, documented the entire system, and quickly had it operating as intended. As valuable as their performance was, the frequent and clear communication they established with our internal IT department was equally valuable,” Trokey said.

The Newberry Group, Inc. ranked 442nd among IT companies on this year’s list. Newberry ranked 88th out of all Missouri companies on the list and 5th out of all Missouri IT companies.

To qualify for the 2007 Inc. 5,000 list, companies had to be U.S.-based and privately held, independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2006, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2003, and $2 million in 2006, the period measured by Inc. Magazine.