Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. Named to the Fortune Small Business Latest 100 Fastest Growing Small Companies.ELMWOOD PARK Elmwood Park, village (1990 pop. 23,206), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1914. It is chiefly residential. , N.J. -- Company ranked # 6 on annual list based on three-year results in revenue growth, earnings growth and total return to investors Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BRLI BRLI Bio Rad Laboratories Inc ) announced today that Fortune Small Business Magazine has ranked BRLI #6 in its 2004 annual list of the top 100 Fastest Growing Small Companies, released in the July/August, 2004 issue of the Fortune Small Business magazine. A #5 ranking in Earnings/Share Growth and #7 ranking in Total Return to Investors moved BRLI up from last year's #37 overall ranking to the #6 overall ranking in the newly released list. The magazine noted, "Bio-Reference Laboratories Inc. (BRLI) of Elmwood Park, N.J., working with some 4,000 physicians in the Northeast, BRLI provides lab services and testing. Cancer Diagnosis is a big part of the business." About Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. The Company is the largest independent regional clinical laboratory in the Northeast and has major market positions in physician offices, nursing homes and correctional institutions. The Company is a full service clinical laboratory with specialty capability, especially in the areas of genomics, oncology, correctional health, and complimentary medicine. PSIMedica, a business unit of the Company, is a clinical knowledge management (CKM CKM Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (quark mixing matrix) CKM Certified Knowledge Manager (trademark of Hudson Associates Consulting, Inc. ) organization offering an array of information solutions for reducing healthcare costs and improving quality performance that are based on a flexible, scalable software analytical engine A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834. that utilizes all available source information, including claims data, enrollment data, prescription data and laboratory data. The Company provides a comprehensive connectivity solution to physicians, which includes disease management, laboratory reporting and ordering, as well as claims and eligibility processing through CareEvolve, its web-based healthcare portal. Statements included in this release that are not historical in nature, are intended to be, and are hereby identified as "forward-looking statements". Statements looking forward in time are included in this release pursuant to the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance suggested herein. www.bioreference.com |
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