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SymbolArts Ranks No. 3,280 on the 2007 Inc. 5,000 With Three-Year Sales Growth of 94.8%

NEW YORK, August 23, 2007 – Inc. today ranked SymbolArts No. 3,280 on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list, catches many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500, as well as a host of smaller firms. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy.



“The Inc. 5,000 provides the most comprehensive look ever at the most important part of the economy – the entrepreneurial part,” said Inc. 5,000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “The expansion of the list has allowed us to tell the stories of larger companies, older companies, and a wealth of companies in industries like Manufacturing and Construction that are underreported in the business media.



SymbolArts was founded in 1986 by Utah-native, Mike Leatham, SymbolArts is a producer of jewelry quality custom designed police badges, sheriff badges, challenge coins, lapel pins, patches and other insignia. They have built their reputation by providing the highest quality badges and insignia products, with more color and detail than another other producer while providing proactive service and competitive pricing.



The 2007 Inc. 5,000, as revealed online at www.inc.com, reported median revenue of $9.4 million and median three-year growth of 140 percent. Complete information on this year’s Inc. 5,000, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The list features a profile for each company, almost all of them written as a result of Inc. interviews with management. In addition, the list is searchable according to numerous criteria, including industry, city, state, region, and year founded.



Hottest Regions for Fastest-Growing Companies:

Leading the list of the fastest-growing companies in the nation is the Midwest region with 1,046 of the fastest-growing companies, followed by the West with 884 companies. The Southeast comes in a close third, with 872 companies, followed by the Northeast with 782 companies, and the Mid-Atlantic region with 606 companies.



Hottest Industries for Fastest-Growing Businesses:

The largest business category is Construction, with 561 of the fastest-growing companies in this category, followed by Manufacturing with 515 companies, IT services in third with 466 companies, Business Services with 377 companies and Advertising & Marketing with 349 companies round out the top five industries ranked on the 2007 Inc. 5,000.



Industries reporting the highest total revenue in 2006 are Construction ($27.1billion), Manufacturing ($18.6 billion), Health ($13.1 billion), Computers & Electronics ($12.7 billion), and Financial Services ($11.8 billion).



Methodology:

The 2007 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2003 through 2006. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based and privately held, independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2006, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2003, and $2 million in 2006.



Companies can apply for next year’s Inc. 500 and Inc. 5,000 by registering with IncBizNet, the new social network for private companies that will launch this fall on Inc.com.



About Inc.com:

Inc.com, the Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs, delivers advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. Information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people can be found at http://www.inc.com.

 

Deaflympics Come To Salt Lake City

The 16th Winter Deaflympics, to be held in Salt Lake City USA February 1-10, 2007, will offer competition featuring the world’s best deaf athletes. The Deaflympics, founded in 1924, is the second oldest international multi-cultural sports event in the world, surpassed only by the Olympic Games which were founded in 1894.



For the first time in their history, the Deaflympics, the Olympics, and the Paralympics, will have been held in the same city utilizing some of the same venues. These world-class athletes will be receiving medals custom created by SymbolArts. The medals will be the traditional Bronze, Silver and Gold. Each medal incorporates both the flame logo of the Salt Lake Deaflympics on the front side and the multi-hand logo of the International Committee on Sports of the Deaf (ICSD) on the other. The hand shapes, ‘ok’, ‘good’, and ‘great’ that overlap each other in a circle, represent the original sign for ‘Deaflympics’. Together, the hand shapes represent the sign for ‘united’.” There will additionally be another 500 medals produced that will be custom framed and sold to raise funds to support the 16th Winter Deaflympics.



SymbolArts is known for their custom, jewelry quality, products, including badges, patches, coins, pins, awards and more, and welcomes the opportunity to partner with the 16th Winter Deaflympics in this endeavor. To find out more about SymbolArts please visit their website at www.symbolarts.com.



To learn more about the 16th Winter Deaflympics please visit their official website at www.2007deaflympics.com.

 

Get Noticed at Golf Tournaments with Two Products from SymbolArts

SymbolArts has been known for years as the leader in “jewelry quality” badges. They have also been making other products that can help any organization’s public awareness or community involvement programs. Two such items are divot repair tools and ball marker hat clips.



Both products are specialized to golfing; but provide a great way to help promote a department’s charity golf tournament. They help by giving the participant not only a tool that can be used quite effectively on the golf course, but a lasting reminder of the organization or event they participated in.



With the number of people getting into the sport of golf, these can make great fundraising tools as well or add to an already existing array of products carrying an organization’s logo. Both are low-cost and easily customizable to fit an organization’s needs. These items can attach just as easily to your hat as to your golf bag, belt, or pants pocket; and can easily be customized with other attachment options.



SymbolArts, an Ogden, Utah, based company supplies public safety insignia products such as badges, patches, pins, and coins to law enforcement agencies across the country and internationally. Visit their website at www.symbolarts.com.

 

St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Department Recognizes its Heroes

When Hurricane Katrina hit, a number of people and even law enforcement personal lost everything. St. Bernard Parish was no different. Even at the risk of losing everything the officers and deputies of the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Department stayed to help.



In commemoration of their heroic efforts, SymbolArts is proud to have assisted in the design and manufacture of a special badge for this department and all its officers. Sheriff Jack Stephens commissioned and authorized the badge for all deputies. These badges will be worn with honor as their regulation badge for at least the next year.



The new badge incorporates their existing style with the addition of the circular banner around the center seal. The seal itself was not changed from the traditional State of Louisiana seal used before.



SymbolArts was chosen because of their top quality and competitive pricing for truly custom badges. This has allowed departments to create badges and insignia that represent the personality of their department and community they serve.



SymbolArts, an Ogden, Utah, based company, is a supplier of public safety insignia products such as badges, patches, pins, and coins to law enforcement agencies across the country and internationally. Visit our website at www.symbolarts.com.