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GIS Planning, Inc. ranked 2,188 fastest growing private company in the United States in 2008

San Francisco, CA, September 3, 2008 – For the second year in a row, GIS Planning, Inc., the world leader in online solutions for economic development, was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the United States.  GIS Planning, Inc. was ranked 2,188th overall,  155th among software companies, and as the 35th fastest growing company in San Francisco. GIS Planning Inc., grew 169% from 2004 to 2007.

“We’re deeply honored and excited to be ranked for the second year in a row by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the USA,” said Anatalio Ubalde, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of GIS Planning, Inc. “We’ve been leading online economic development for 10 years, and we could not have achieved this growth without the support of our economic development clients throughout the nation,” continued Mr. 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.

About the Inc. 5,000
The 2008 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based and privately held, independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2007, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004, and $2 million in 2007.

“The Inc. 5,000 provides the most comprehensive look ever at the most important part of the economy – the entrepreneurial part,” said Inc. 5,000 Project Manager Jim Melloan. “The expansion of the list has allowed us to tell the stories of larger companies, older companies, and a wealth of companies in industries like Manufacturing and Construction that are underreported in the business media”. Complete information on this year’s Inc. 5,000, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

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