Ingram's Magazine July 2022

Corporate Report 100 21 Elevate Design + Build

Average Annual Growth Rate: 81.48%

Growth: 244.44% 2018: $5,800,000

Gross Revenue: Full-time employees: 13 A commitment to quality home construction in both suburban and urban settings paid off almost immediately asmultiple industry awards began to roll in for Elevate Design + Build, which launched in 2017. With nearly two dozen floor plans, the company offers home buyers a diverse choice of styles including those that mesh with the historic nature of homes in the city and help improve the stability of those neighborhoods. 2021: $19,977,633

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22 Southwind

Average Annual Growth Rate: 80.37%

Growth: 241.10% 2018: $20,276,184

1st Year Full-time employees: 900 By rethinking home services, the leadership at Southwind has spawned high-growth companies across the country that go well beyond its initial mission as a bulk-item collection service. Today, it offers moving services as well as heating, plumbing and electric work from20 locations across 12 states. One of the success drivers, says Jeff Scott, director of people and culture, is a commitment to an employee-first mindset to cultivate the team. 23 Kendall Bank Growth: 236.66% Average Annual Growth Rate: 78.89% 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $6,346,000 2018: $1,885,000 Full-time employees: 44 New ownership of a small community bank, wedded with an understanding of how financial tech can turbocharge growth even at that level, have propelled Kendall Bank into the upper echelon of fast-growth companies in the region. The former Kendall State Bank of Valley Falls, Kan., rebranded and expanded its footprint into the Kansas City market on each side of the state line. 24 InnovaPrep Growth: 233.62% Average Annual Growth Rate: 77.87% 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $5,006,000 2018: $1,500,532 Full-time employees: 30 Tiny Drexel, Mo., population 885, is an unlikely center of biotechnology excellence, but the townsfolk have a shining life-sciences star with Dave Alburty and InnovaPrep, the company he founded in 2009. After a fund-raising effort in 2018, he began scaling the production of tools for use in a variety of biomonitoring applications, measuring concentrations of particulates in the air, in liquids, and on surfaces. 25 Nutrition Partners Growth: 210.57% Average Annual Growth Rate: 70.19% Full-time employees: 28 From a single location in 2014, Carl Hughes and Dan McKay had expanded Nutrition Partners into a 15-store chain of GNC Stores, with franchises in seven states by the end of 2021. In combination with strategic acquisitions and new store locations in underserved markets, says marketing director KatieMcKay, the company continues to see incremental growth in existing sites with improvidedmarketing and networking. Gross Revenue: 2021: $69,162,843 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $6,391,418 2018: $2,057,980

26 Crux KC

Average Annual Growth Rate: 65.60%

Growth: 196.79% 2018: $700,735

Gross Revenue: Full-time employees: 29 Crux KC serves companies looking for extra marketing oomph with its marketing-department-as-a-service model, addressing a widening market gap with emerging businesses, in particular—companies often ignored by establishedmarketing and advertising players. Investments in leadership and staff, a focus on culture, a bigger office location and a focus on benefits and training have all helped drive growth. 2021: $2,079,715

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27 Bash & Co

Average Annual Growth Rate: 63.13%

Growth: 189.39% 2018: $2,545,757

Gross Revenue: Full-time employees: DD Capitalizing on a red-hot real-estate market, Bash & Co. more than doubled the number of homes it sold between 2018 and 2021, saw its aggregate home-value volume rise by a corresponding amount, and realized the gains with commissions that rose just shy of three-fold. Based inMissionWoods, it leverages an affiliation with Sotheby’s International Realty network to provide full-service real estate brokerage services. 2021: $7,367,060

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28 Friend That Cooks

Average Annual Growth Rate: 63.00%

Growth: 189.00% 2018: $1,726,258

3rd Year Full-time employees: 87 Friend That Cooks offers in-home weekly meal preparation for working families and couples, sending personal chefs into client homes each week to plan menus, shop, cook, clean up and stock their refrigerator with a week’s worth of meals ready to reheat. Outside of 2020, the company has grown more than 60 percent year over year since its inception in 2007, with growth resuming as the pandemic has ebbed. 29 Empowered Electric Growth: 187.82% Average Annual Growth Rate: 62.61% 2nd Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $10,285,935 2018: $3,573,767 Full-time employees: 50 A lot of people might be surprised to hear that an electric company even has an Instagram account, let alone one with more than 14,000 fol lowers. But that’s just one measure of the marketing savvy that Josh Levin and Paul Shoemaker have employed to keep connected with exist ing customers and demonstrate the company’s chops to prospective clients. Clients are from offices to restaurants to retail venues and more. Gross Revenue: 2021: $4,988,947

30 Dynamic Logistix

Average Annual Growth Rate: 59.69%

Growth: 179.06% 2018: $54,353,748

Gross Revenue: Full-time employees: 92 It’s hard to say growth has “cooled” at this former CR 100No. 1 company when in fact, this cycle’s performance produced a revenue bump twice as large as the one that took them to the top of the list in 2019. The right people, the right culture, the right tech tools—even a new headquar ters building—have all contributed to monster growth for this Overland Park firm specializing in shipping solutions within the logistics sector. 2021: $151,681,683

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