Adayana Ranks Among 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Inc. Magazine Survey.

With Three-Year Sales Growth Over 1,000% Adayana Ranks No. 1 in Minnesota, No. 254 Nationally

MINNEAPOLIS -- Inc. magazine has ranked Adayana, a Minneapolis-based human capital development company, as Minnesota's fastest growing private company and No. 254 on its annual Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. With 2008 revenue of $19 million and growth of over 1,000% since 2004, Adayana also ranks No. 11 nationally among the fastest growing companies working in Human Resources. http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/company-profile.html?id=200802540

"This recognition is very gratifying to our entire Adayana team," said Mike Jackson, President and CEO. "Our growth is living proof that companies are achieving greater levels of success by investing in new methods and technologies for improving their people's knowledge and performance."

Adayana serves clients worldwide. With more than 300 employees in 12 U.S. locations and India, Adayana focuses on three broad, global vertical markets - Federal governments through VERTEX; agriculture, food, life sciences, services and non-profit sectors through ABG, and the automotive aftermarket through Adayana Automotive. Adayana's comprehensive human capital development and organizational performance improvement services include technology-enabled and blended learning, enterprise effectiveness solutions, technology integration, channel messaging and managed learning services.

"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-growing companies in the nation - the ones coming up with solutions to some of our knottiest problems, 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 Inc. 500 reported aggregate revenue of $13.7 billion and median three-year growth of 1,046%. Total sales for Inc. 500 companies were 14 percent below 2006 combined revenue of $16 billion, but still a stellar year for many companies. Additionally, the 2008 Inc. 500 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 51,414 jobs since those companies were founded.

The 2008 Inc. 500/5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. The companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, and not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004, and $2 million in 2007.