Inc.’s list of fastest growing companies features 5 from Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo boasts five area companies on the annual Inc. Magazine list of the fastest growing firms in the country.

The list for 2010 ranks privately held U.S. companies by looking at their revenue growth between 2006 and 2009.

The five local companies are: medical devise company Alliant Healthcare Products at No. 147; the drug screening company Forensic Fluids No. 167; software company MacUpdate at No. No. 233; telecommunications company Lynx Network Group at No. 967 and human resources management company BASIC at 3,838.

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The 2010 list is testament both to our acculturation to online buying and to Web-based models that work. As the list shows, consumers now cheerfully shop the Internet for products as diverse as baby clothes and diamonds. But vendors of spare parts for products such as major appliances, scooters, and automobiles are also thriving.
 
To see who else is on the list, check out the complete ranking.

Source: Inc. Magazine