America’s 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Revealed: TicketNetwork Ranks No. 27 on the 2008 Inc. 5000 With Three-Year Sales Growth of 4,737.3%

5,000 Fast-Growth Companies to Quell Your Recession Fears — List Reports Aggregate Revenue of $185 Billion

NEW YORK, NY–(EMWNews – August 20, 2008) – Inc. today ranked TicketNetwork

(www.ticketnetwork.com) number 27 on its annual ranking of the 5,000

fastest-growing private companies in the country. The list is the most

comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy —

America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these

companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.

“Our second annual Inc. 5000 continues the most ambitious project in

business journalism,” said Inc. 5000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “The Inc.

5000 gives an unrivalled portrait of young, underreported companies across

all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models,

as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth.”

In addition to ranking twenty-seventh on the Inc. 5000 list in the nation,

TicketNetwork is also the fastest growing company in Connecticut.

TicketNetwork serves as the backbone of the secondary ticket market by

providing cutting-edge ticket resale software supplemented with the most

comprehensive selection of tickets at competitive prices. It is the world’s

leading provider of real-time ticket inventory and sells sought after

tickets to concert, sporting, and theater events throughout North America.

TicketNetwork’s inventory includes more than $1 billion in tickets to

72,000 events worldwide. TicketNetwork’s properties include:

TicketLiquidator.com, TicketNetwork Direct, TicketNews, TicketNetwork

Point-of-Sale, and Ticket Summit, the world’s largest trade show and

conference in the secondary ticket industry.

The 5,000 companies that made the list reported aggregate revenue of $185

billion and median three-year growth of 147 percent. Most important, the

2008 Inc. 5000 companies were engines of job growth, having created more

than 826,033 jobs since those companies were founded. Complete results of

the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and a list of the fastest-growing

companies that can be sorted by industry and region, can be found at

www.inc5000.com.

Hottest Regions for Fastest-Growing Companies

The New York metro area tops the Inc. 5000 list with the most companies of

any city with 355. Washington, D.C. comes in a close second with 300

companies on the list; Los Angeles comes in third with 244 companies, and

Atlanta (194 companies) and Chicago (189 companies) round out the top five.

Interestingly, only 62 companies on the Inc. 5000 are not based in

metropolitan areas.

Grand Rapids, Mich. leads the list with the highest median revenue of any

metro area ($26.2 million, 16 companies), followed by San Antonio, Texas

($21.3 million, 25 companies), Baton Rouge, La. ($18.8 million, 14

companies), Houston ($17.1 million, 97 companies), and Kansas City, Mo.

($16.5 million, 39 companies).

Hottest Industries for Fastest-Growing Businesses

The most notable median growth categories among the Inc. 5000

fastest-growing businesses are in the Energy category (which grew by 298%),

followed by Government Services (which grew by 220%), Security (200%

growth), IT Services and Software (both grew by 187%), and Consulting

(which grew by 182% on average).

The largest business category is IT Services, with 579 Inc. 5000 companies.

Business Services (532 companies), Construction (459), Manufacturing (405),

and Advertising & Marketing (361) complete the top five industries ranked

on the 2008 Inc. 5000.

Industries reporting the highest median revenue are Travel ($38.8 million),

Financial Services ($16.3 million), Logistics ($15.4 million) Government

Services ($14.2 million), and Energy ($14.2 million).

Methodology

The 2008 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. To

qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, for profit,

independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of

December 31, 2007, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004, and

$2 million in 2007.

Companies can apply for next year’s Inc. 5000 by registering with

“IncBizNet, Business Network for Private Companies,” at www.incbiznet.com.

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