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GMI Ranks #753 on the 2008 Inc. 5000 With Three-Year Revenue Growth of 464 Percent

Inc. Magazine Reveals its Annual List of America's 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies

Seattle, Wash., August 21, 2008 - Inc. Magazine announced its annual Inc. 5000 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country yesterday. GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), a leading provider of global panels and technology-based services to the market research industry, ranked #753 on the list, with three-year revenue growth of 464 percent from 2004 to 2007.

GMI also ranked favorably on several of Inc. Magazine's 2008 Inc. 5,000 Top 100 Lists, including:

• #59 in the marketing and advertising industry
• #23 in the Puget Sound region

"We have been able to achieve impressive annual growth rates since our inception because we keep an ear to the ground and an eye on our vision of providing highly innovative, technology-enabled market research services," explains Mike Brochu, GMI's CEO. "Our global footprint enables us to provide our customers with the regional support and international reach they need to efficiently conduct quality online research."

"Our second annual Inc. 5000 continues to be the most ambitious project in business journalism," said Inc. 5000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. "The Inc. 5000 gives an unrivalled portrait of young, underreported companies across all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models, as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth."

Methodology

The 2008 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, for profit, independent - not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies - as of December 31, 2007, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004, and $2 million in 2007. For more information about Inc. 5000, visit www.incbiznet.com.

About GMI

GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.) provides everything a researcher needs to conduct global market research with confidence. GMI global panels provide access to the opinions of millions of consumer and specialty panelists in 200 countries and territories, and are carefully managed to ensure the highest sample quality. GMI panel members are profiled on hundreds of attributes. Our array of specialty panels for hard-to-reach demographics includes IT professionals, ethnicities, gamers and more. GMI professional services, available 24x7x365, include survey programming, hosting and translation, data processing and delivery in multiple formats, report automation, interactive Flash® surveys and dashboards. Founded in 1999 with world headquarters in Seattle, Wash., GMI has operations on five continents. In 2007, the company ranked #229 in Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 and #7 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 for Washington State. For more information, please visit us online at www.gmi-mr.com or email us.

Media contact

Cassandra Voss
GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.)
cvoss@gmi-mr.com | (206) 315-6476