MountainWest names Radiate Media fastest-gro..

Awards • At event, MountainWest honors Top 100 companies based on revenue.

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Radiate Media, which uses "old media" outlets to connect small companies to various forms of new media, was named Utah's fastest-growing company on Tuesday.

The Salt Lake City technology firm topped the list of 100 companies with the largest percentage growth in revenue. The ranking is sponsored annually by the MountainWest Capital Network, a nonprofit group that aims to help Utah businesses prosper.

Radiate Media partners with local media — mostly radio and television stations but also some newspapers — to offer small businesses a one-stop technology platform that allows them to create their own websites and connect those sites through online services such as search engines and social media, as well as to advertise on traditional forms of media.

"It's a complete easy-to-use small-business promotional platform," said CEO Chris Rothey, who added that the company's annual compounded growth rate over the past five years was 11,122 percent.

Radio, television and newspapers have built relationships for years with small businesses, a tie that Radiate Media builds on, Rothey said, even as those so-called old media companies stumble in the face of advertising and readers gravitating online.

"We think old media has the potential to become the most powerful force in new media," he said. "A lot of people think old media is over and done, while actually we think the greatest asset old media has ... is they know businesses in their cities and they've known them for decades."

In addition to putting Radiate Media at the head of its Top 100 list, MountainWest Capital Network named its lists of Top 15 Revenue Growth Companies, based on the growth of total revenue, and Emerging Elite Companies, 15 young firms that show significant potential for growth.

Huntsman Corp., a Salt Lake City-based chemical manufacturer, was tops in gross revenue growth in the past five years. The Emerging Elite list was not ranked.

Jason Watson, director of business development for Wells Fargo Bank in Utah and president of the MountainWest Capital Network, said companies apply for the awards and provide financial information, which is kept private. The awards allow CEOs to share success with employees, he said.

"The CEOs will always come up [on stage] and say, 'This is not me, this is my people,' " Watson said. "So it provides an opportunity for them to share success from a state, nonprofit organization that promotes and recognizes that success."

Being named to the list also can help companies attract attention and capital, he said.

Last year, a company that helps businesses find and obtain loans, Lendio of South Jordan, was named the fastest-growing Utah company.

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The 2012 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Utah

1 • Radiate Media

2 • OnRamp Transportation Services

3 • Central Logic

4 • ZAGG

5 • Real Property Management

6 • UNICONNECT

7 • Neutron Interactive

8 • OrangeSoda

9 • Parallel HR Solutions

10 • Property Solutions International

11 • iApplicants

12 • Molding Box Inc •

13 • iTOK

14 • StorageCraft Technology

15 • mediaFORGE

16 • Academy Mortgage

17 • One On One Marketing

18 • Shelf Reliance

19 • Alta Medical Management

20 • LifeVantage

21 • Integratechs

22 • Davinci Virtual Office Solutions

23 • School Improvement Network

24 • DigiCert

25 • Gauss Management Research and Engineering

26 • Skullcandy

27 • Lead Media Partners

28 • Green River Capital

29 • Johnson Mark LLC

30 • Vivint

31 • IntegraCore

32 • Telecom Recovery

33 • Amara Day Spa Salon & Boutique

34 • Infuse Media Group

35 • Castle & Cooke Mortgage

36 • Diamond Wireless

37 • CLEARLINK

38 • VMI Nutrition

39 • Little Adventures

40 • Equity Real Estate

41 • Universal Synaptics

42 • Solutionreach

43 • Wadsworth & Sons II

44 • Park City Group

45 • Jakob Marketing Partners

46 • Simply Mac

47 • America West Resources

48 • Profire Energy

49 • Packsize International

50 • Cytozyme Laboratories

51 • Durham Brands

52 • Aribex

53 • InsideSales.com

54 • Imagine Health Inc. •

55 • Dialogue Marketing Inc •

56 • i.t.NOW

57 • Matrix42

58 • Conservice

59 • Pfadt Race Engineering

60 • Myriad Genetics

61 • LinkTrust

62 • SecureAlert

63 • SimTek Fence

64 • Mindshare Technologies

65 • Diversified Financial Planning

66 • Allegiance

67 • New Dawn Technologies

68 • Veracity Networks

69 • Ancestry.com

70 • InsideOut Development

71 • Zyto

72 • Control4

73 • Fishbowl

74 • Kneaders Bakery and Cafe

75 • Inovar

76 • Black Diamond Equipment

77 • ATMequipment.com

78 • Veracity Solutions

79 • MultiLing

80 • Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction

81 • ServerPlus

82 • GPS Capital Markets

83 • Cafe Rio

84 • Intrepid

85 • Wasatch I.T.

86 • Intelligent Enclosures

87 • eGlobal

88 • Axiom Financial

89 • FX Energy

90 • Broadcast International

91 • ContentWatch

92 • Telarus

93 • Apex EDI

94 • Resource Management

95 • MasterControl

96 • Candle Warmers Etc.

97 • Dynatronics

98 • VPI Engineering

99 • Christopherson Business Travel

100 • VitalSmarts The 2012 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Utah. —

Emerging Elite Utah Companies

The MountainWest Capital Network also has named this group of firms with less than five but more than two years of operation that show significant promise for growth and success (In alphabetical order):

2Gig Technologies

Candlelight Homes

Cariloha

Fusion-io

GOAL ZERO

HireVue

KT TAPE

Method Communications

Miche Bag

OptConnect

Orabrush

Precision Corporate Services

SEO.com

Silencerco

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