GIS Planning

Fast growing online economic development solutions provider honored

SAN FRANCISCO, CA Oct 24, 2008 – GIS Planning Inc., the world leader in online solutions for economic development, announced today that it was named to the San Francisco Business Times "Fast 100” as the San Francisco Bay Area's 48th fastest growing private company.

“We are honored to be named for the second year in a row to this prestigious list,” said Co-Founder and Co-CEO Anatalio Ubalde. “GIS Planning, Inc. has seen tremendous growth over our 10 years of existence serving economic development organizations nationwide, and as a San Francisco based company, we are pleased to receive this recognition from the San Francisco Business Times,” continued Ubalde.

GIS Planning, Inc.’s ZoomProspector Enterprise is a Software as a Service (SaaS) for economic development websites that help economic development organizations attract, retain and grow businesses in their communities that foster economic vitality, job growth and business development. ZoomProspector.com is a new service offered by GIS Planning that empowers businesses to search all the communities in the USA for the optimal location to start-up, expand and grow their community based on the business, labor force and geographic characteristics most important to each unique business. GIS Planning, Inc. is also the official and exclusive partner for online property listings, demographics, and online mapping products and services for the International Economic Development Council ( IEDC ), the largest non-profit membership organization for economic developers in the world.

Published annually, the Fast 100 ranks the fastest growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area by percentage revenue growth during their three most recent fiscal years with finalists determined through an independent audit and evaluation process and published in a special edition of the paper.