The Business Journal’s annual list of fastest-growing private companies includes OC-based businesses owned by individuals, groups of people, families, venture capitalists, private equity firms and other investors.
Publicly traded companies and subsidiaries are not included in the list. (The Business Journal’s list of fastest-growing public companies includes publicly traded companies based here and will be published in our Nov. 4 issue.)
The fastest-growing private companies list includes companies that had annual sales of at least $300,000 for 12 months through June 2011.
This year’s list required companies to show at least 15% growth in revenue for the 12 months through June of this year compared to the same period two years ago.
The measurement skips a middle 12-month period—from June 2011 to June 2012—in part to reflect the staying power of companies on the list.
The Business Journal solicited entries for the list through its print edition and website for several months this year. We also contacted various companies we believed might qualify based on our prior coverage and other reports.
The fastest-growing private companies list is a work in progress, and there’s a chance we did not capture every company that might have qualified.
Companies interested in being considered for next year’s list can contact Business Journal Research Director Dana Truong at (949) 833-8373, ext. 247, or by email at truong@ocbj.com.
—Jerry Sullivan
