50 Fastest-Growing Women Owned Companies Share Key AttributesOn April 28, 2010 the Women Presidents Organization and American Express OPEN announced the winners of the 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies in North America.
The top winner? Argent Associates Inc., a
New Jersey supply chain company that provides warehousing, logistics and
product life cycle management services. President and CEO Beatriz
Manetta’s 12-year old company saw gross revenues grow more than
twelvefold in two years, from over $9 million in 2007 to $115 million in
2009.
Second on the list was BrightStar, a home healthcare and medical staffing company in Illinois. Third was Artech Information Systems LLC in New Jersey.
WPO’s founder and president Marsha Firestone says the group launched its first ranking three years ago in order to combat the stereotype that women-owned companies are primarily mom-and-pop operations in “retail, cookie-making or crafts.” Most of the Top 50 are business-to-business companies, often in traditionally male-dominated fields.
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Author: Rieva Lesonsky
