AREA FIRMS AMONG TOP 50 ON GROWTH LIST.Byline: Jason Takenouchi Staff Writer The finalists are in, and Valley area companies once again dominate the annual Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol listing of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the five-county Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area. The Valley and Ventura County have a combined 22 companies on the list of finalists, including six from Camarillo, five from Calabasas and four from Chatsworth. Los Angeles has more companies on the list than any other city in the region, thanks in part to Chatsworth's representation; Camarillo has the second-most. ``We believe technology companies are the industry of the future here in Los Angeles,'' said Gary Dickey, a partner in Deloitte & Touche's Los Angeles High Technology Group. ``There are a lot of high-growth companies operating here in our neighborhood.'' Deloitte & Touche, one of the country's largest professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms, will rank the 1999 Los Angeles Technology Fast 50 companies by revenue growth for a September award presentation. MRV Communications  OverviewMRV NASDAQ: MRVC is a company that designs, manufactures, sells, distributes, integrates and supports communication equipment and services, and optical components. in Chatsworth was the top Valley company last September, grabbing third overall with a 2,136 percent earnings growth over five years. It's on this year's list as well. The nominees include both privately held and publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. . Among the publicly traded companies, their size varies from Sylmar's MiniMed (with a market value of approximately $2.3 billion) to Sound Source Interactive of Calabasas ($2.4 million). In order to make the list, technology companies must be in business at least five years, cannot be a subsidiary or division of another firm as of the end of the 1998-99 fiscal year, and must have 1994 revenues of at least $50,000 and 1998 revenues of $1 million or more. The list includes companies headquartered in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Ventura, Riverside and Orange counties. FAST COMPANY The following companies from the Valley and Ventura County were among the 50 technology companies named to the Deloitte & Touche ''Fast 50`` on Thursday: COMPANY HQ ACT Networks Calabasas Advanced Recognition Tech. Simi Valley Ampersand The ampersand (&) normally means "and" as in Jones & Company. However, in the computer world, it is used in various ways. In Windows, it is used as a code to precede an underlined character. Corp. Glendale Biopool Intl. Ventura BioSource Intl. Camarillo DataDirect Networks Chatsworth Delta Circuits Tech. Van Nuys EOS Eos (ē`ŏs), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of dawn; daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. Every morning she arose early and preceded her brother Helios into the heavens. Corp. Camarillo Irvine Optical Co. Burbank jeTech Data Systems Camarillo MiniMed Inc. Sylmar MRV Communications Inc. Chatsworth North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Scientific Inc. Chatsworth Nova Development Corp. Calabasas Optical Communication Products Chatsworth RIFOCS Corp. Camarillo Soligen Technologies Inc. Northridge Sound Source Interactive Inc. Calabasas THQ THQ Toy Headquarters THQ Territorial Headquarters THQ Tehsil Headquarters (Pakistan) THQ The Holy Quran THQ Theater Headquarters Inc. Calabasas View Tech Inc. Camarillo Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. Camarillo Xylan xylan /xy·lan/ (zi´lan) any of a group of pentosans composed of xylose residues; major structural constituents of wood, straw, and bran. Corp. Calabasas CAPTION(S): Box Box: FAST COMPANY (See text) |
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