QCBJ honors Fastest Growing Companies at Sept. 7 event

The Quad Cities Regional Business Journal will honor nearly two dozen area businesses at its second annual Fastest Growing Companies awards event on Thursday, Sept. 7. 

A total of 22 Quad Cities companies are vying for the region’s 2023 Fastest Growing Company. The winner will be announced at the awards banquet, which will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 7, at the Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center in downtown Bettendorf. 

The annual awards recognize our region’s most dynamic companies that have made significant contributions to the strength of the Quad Cities economy.

Honorees are ranked according to revenue growth over a two-year period with both dollar and percentage increases taken into account. 

At the event, QCBJ leaders will announce the rankings of this year’s nominees and introduce the No. 1 Fastest Growing Company, whose CEO will share the company’s story. 

Honorees are self-nominated and must provide financial information regarding their revenue growth between 2020 and 2022. This information was gathered confidentially by Honkamp Krueger, which calculated the growth percentages of each to determine the company rankings. During the awards program, videos on all the Fastest nominees will be presented. 

The nominees for the 2023 Fastest Growing Companies (listed alphabetically) are: 

• American Industrial Door Company
• Arctic Dental, PLC
• Barrel House
• Barron Equipment Company, Inc.
• C&W Transport Solutions
• Centennial Tax & Accounting
• Christopher Larsen, DMD, LTD
• Crawford Company
• Ecogistics
• Greenspace Associates, Inc.
• IMEG
• Mallard Pointe Kennels
• Per Mar Security and Research Corp.
• Phelps Uniform Specialists, Inc.
• Revive at the Group Med Spa
• River Cities Engineering, Inc.
• Russell
• Salzman International, Inc.
• Schroeder Associates
• Shaw Electric, Inc.
• The Advisory Group, Inc.
• The Group Obstetrics & Gynecology Specialists, P.C.

The 2023 Fastest Growing Companies is sponsored by TBK Bank, our platinum sponsor, and Honkamp, our gold sponsor. 

The event is open to the public and reservations are being taken through Friday, Sept. 1. Registration is $75 per person or $600 for a table of eight. Register now by clicking here.

In 2022, the QCBJ hosted its first-ever Fastest Growing Companies. The winner, with a whopping 211% growth in revenues in the previous two years, was Revive at the Group. Click here to read the QCBJ’s profile on Revive and its growth journey. 

For information about the Fastest Growing Companies event, contact Lucas Hayes, events logistics manager for Corridor Media Group, the QCBJ’s parent company. He can be reached at (563) 345-7225 or [email protected].