Where’s The Growth?
Where there is business growth, there is job growth. Here’s some local leads based on 2012 growth.
Lake County’s Fastest Growing
Who are the fastest growing companies in the region? According to the recent report by the economic development organization, Lake County Partners, 15 companies from the INC 5000 are in Lake County Illinois. Since Lake County Illinois is just across the street from our office, here’s a link to their list and report. It includes a capsule summary for each of these fast growing organizations. I’ve reproduced the list below and added links to each company’s website.
- Precious Metal Refining Services in Barrington – Environmentally correct refining and recycling of their precious metal scrap
- Paragon Micro, located in Lake Zurich – IT computing products
- Utopia in Mundelein – information technology consulting
- Bee-Line Communications, a Libertyville strategic marketing and communications services
- BrightStar Care in Gurnee health care staffing
- Big Machines, located in Deerfield, provides innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) options for sales configuration, quoting, B2B eCommerce, and proposal generation.
- Koffler Sales in Lake Zurich provides an e-commerce site that represents over 40,000 individual items for floor and wall protection as well as hardware
- OMI Industries of Long Grove manufactures eco-friendly chemicals and natural odor eliminators for industrial, commercial and residential consumers.
- Quest Products, a Gurnee business, manufactures, distributes, and brokers health-related consumer products for retail sale.
- Computer Aided Technology in Buffalo Grove re-sells, implements, and supports design software for the engineering and manufacturing industries
- Excalibur Technology in Barrington provides network support, Internet connectivity, and other general IT services for business clients.
- CDW, headquartered in Vernon Hills, offers technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare customers.
- Corplex, a Lake Bluff company, rents and sells video equipment and manufactures mobile TV production units.
Metro Chicago’s Fastest Growing
These 15 Lake County companies are among 218 companies in Metro Chicago.