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GMI ranks No. 93 on the 2006 Inc. 500 with three-year revenue growth of 895%

Inc. Magazine Reveals Its 25th Annual List of America's 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies

New York, August 23, 2006 - Inc. Magazine announced its 25th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country today. Global market intelligence solutions provider GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), ranks No. 93 on the list, with three-year growth of 895% percent.

GMI, based on Mercer Island, Wash., is the only company that provides comprehensive integrated solutions for global market intelligence for both market research firms and corporate market research departments at Global 2000 companies.  Solutions include Net-MR, a suite of software tools to manage and automate research throughout the project lifecycle, desktop analysis tools, 24x7x365 service bureau capabilities, and one of the world's largest, highly profiled, double opt-in panels, spanning across 200 countries and territories.  In addition, GMI offers high-value, real-time enterprise feedback solutions for customer, partner and employee programs.

"If you want to find out which companies are going to change the world, look at the Inc. 500," said Inc. Editor Jane Berentson. "These are the most innovative, dynamic, fast-growth companies in the nation, the ones coming up with solutions to some of our most intractable ills, creating systems that let us conduct business faster and easier, and manufacturing products we soon discover we can't live without. The Inc. 500 list is Inc. Magazine's tribute to American business ingenuity and ambition."

The 2006 Inc. 500, as revealed in the September issue of Inc., reported the most robust bunch of companies the magazine has ever compiled, with aggregate revenue of $19.7 billion, up from $16.5 billion last year and $12.9 billion in 2000. The two largest companies on this year's Inc. 500 are the biggest ever to make the list - No. 170 Western Refining ($3.4 billion in revenue) and No. 376 Newegg.com ($1.26 billion) - and the third and fourth companies in Inc. 500 history to crack the billion-dollar mark. In all, 14 companies topped $200 million in annual revenue, compared with 11 last year.

Most important, the 2006 Inc. 500 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 90,000 jobs since those companies were founded.

"We're excited to be included on such a prestigious list as the Inc 500," states Rob Monster, CEO and Founder of GMI. "Since the company was founded in 1999, we've been focused on providing top of the line tools and customer service. Being successful in both of these areas brings new jobs and the extreme revenue growth that got us onto the Inc. 500. We plan on continuing this trend and making the list again in 2007."

Methodology

The 2006 Inc. 500 list measures revenue growth from 2002 through 2005. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based, privately held and independent - not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies - as of December 31, 2005, and have at least $600,000 in net sales in the base year.

Visit http://www.inc.com/ to dig deeper into this year's Inc. 500 rankings

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