EAC Product Development Solutions Honored by Inc. Magazine as One of the 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America

    MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 20 /EMWNews/ -- Inc. today ranked EAC Product

Development Solutions (EAC) number 1,435 on its Inc. 5,000 list of the

fastest-growing private companies in the country. EAC also ranked number 24

in the Inc.'s top 50 businesses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington,

MN-WI area. This is the second consecutive year EAC has made the Inc. list.

The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc. magazine's annual Inc. 500 list,

catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to

make the Inc. 500, as well as a host of smaller firms. Taken as a whole,

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



    "EAC is very proud to have earned this achievement for a second

straight year," said Thane Hathaway, President and CEO at EAC. "We credit

our success to a business model that reflects a strong commitment to our

customers, as well as a dedication to crafting innovative solutions."



    "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."



    The 5000 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 http://www.inc5000.com.

    About EAC Product Development Solutions



    EAC Product Development Solutions (EAC) provides the manufacturing,

engineering and design industries with a single resource for complete

product development solutions. EAC offers software, consulting, training,

hardware, implementations and engineering services addressing all aspects

of the product development process. EAC is committed to helping companies

leverage proven technologies and practices to become more efficient and

competitive in the global market place. For more information visit

http://www.eacpds.com



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