Fastest Growing Private Companies In Orange County Honored

October 3, 2008
By Michael Lyster

Orange County Business Journal Staff


Fast-growing private companies—including a video game store franchisor, a flat TV seller and even a provider of healthcare to prison inmates—were honored at a cocktail reception in Irvine on Thursday by the Orange County Business Journal.

The event honored the top 10 companies on the Business Journal’s list of 100 fast-growing private companies, which appears in the Oct. 6 edition of the paper.

Companies were ranked by revenue growth for the 12 months through June 2006 to the 12 months through June 2008.

The companies honored:

No. 1 Newport Beach-based Play N Trade Franchise Inc., which franchises video game stores and saw two-year growth of 1,926% to $7 million in sales.

No. 2 Orange-based American Correctional Solutions Inc., a provider of healthcare to prisons that saw 720% growth to $12.3 million in sales.

No. 3 Irvine-based Earthbound Media Group, an Internet marketing company with yearly sales of $2.5 million, up 525% from two years earlier.

No. 4 Irvine-based Vizio Inc., a seller of flat-panel TVs with yearly sales of $2.3 billion, up 480% from two years earlier.

No. 5 Mission Viejo-based Stone Equity Group, which markets unsold homes to individual investors and has yearly revenue of $1.7 million, up 477% from two years earlier.

No. 6 Costa Mesa-based Pacific Building Care Inc., a provider of janitorial and other building services with sales of $90 million, up 400%.

No. 7 Costa Mesa-based Lead Tracking Solutions Corp., a provider of advertising tracking software with sales of $1.4 million, up 361%.

No. 8 Costa Mesa-based BandCon, a provider of Internet services with sales of $14.5 million, up 323%.

No. 9 Irvine-based Neudesic LLC, a technology services provider and custom software developer with sales of $34 million, up 231%.

No. 10 Laguna Hills-based Blytheco LLC, the top reseller of business software made by Irvine’s Sage Software Inc. with sales of $23 million, up 228%.

In all, the 100 companies on the Business Journal’s fast-growing private companies have yearly sales of $27 billion, up more than 40% in the past two years.

The event honoring the top 10 companies at the Hyatt Regency Irvine drew about 450 people.



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