Cesari Response Television Tops Fastest 100 List.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1998--Cesari Response Television, a five-year-old Seattle business that produces direct-response television campaigns, tops the 1998 list of the Business Journal 100 as state's fastest-growing privately held company.

The company received recognition for its accomplishments at the Puget Sound Business Journal's fourth annual 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies awards program at the Westin Hotel, at which CEOs of the companies were honored.

Cesari, whose annual revenues have grown over the last three years by 2,398 percent, had a 1997 revenue of $21.38 million compared with $850,000 in 1995.

The list is compiled each year by the Business Journal and is based on revenue growth over the past three years. The information is verified by the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The awards event is put on each year by the Business Journal and is co-sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the law firm of Graham & James/Riddell Williams, KeyBank and Wall Data.

The number two company on the Business Journal 100 list this year is Paladin Data Systems Corp. of Poulsbo, a computer consulting and software solutions company that saw its revenue grow by 1,400 percent over the past three years.

HyperBole Studios, a Seattle-based interactive-software development company, was third on the list with three-year revenue growth of 930 percent.

Forty-three of the top 100 fastest-growing private companies are based on the Eastside, 26 in Seattle, seven from the Vancouver, Wash., area while 24 are located elsewhere in the state.

The full list of 100 companies is in today's issue of Puget Sound Business Journal.

For information on the full list of 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies, please contact Puget Sound Business Journal at 206/583-0701 and ask for Don Nelson, editor.