Announcing the Corporate Report 100 Fastest Growing Businesses
Published: July, 2003

The field of business is witnessing an increased level of chatter. It has been a rough few years. The NASDAQ swoon that began in early 2000 represented the single greatest crash of a major market ever and took with it a few of Ingram’s previous top ten finishers. In March 2001, the recession officially started. And in September 2001, as if we needed any more disincentives, a swarm of violent yahoos took out their collective frustration on the World Trade Center and the great nation in which it was located.

But some Kansas City businesses, many in fact, have dealt with these events as so many bases that need to be crossed before one comes home to score. Scoring is, after all, the essence of business. You try to win, and the other guy tries to stop you. To its advantage, business does not share baseball’s zero-sum restraint, but in a down economy, it does sometimes seem that way. Enjoy this year’s Corporate Report 100 and getting to know the many new faces emerging on the business scene in the Kansas City area.