Ingram's Magazine July 2022

Corporate Report 100 41 Brain Group

Average Annual Growth Rate: 52.39%

Growth: 157.16% 2018: $2,388,000

2nd Year Full-time employees: 10 With a growing staff and new properties in the pipeline, the Brain Group is carving out a reputation within the commercial real-estate world. After a Top 10 CR100 finish a year ago, the company has repositioned itself for another surge with what co-founder Andrew Brain calls a “voracious” property-acquisition strategy. The signature piece of is portfolio is Phase II of the Westport Plexpod Commons project. 42 LotPop, Inc. Growth: 156.65% Average Annual Growth Rate: 52.22% Full-time employees: 18 With more consumers armed with on-line shopping tools, dealers and salesmen need tech tools that help put them back in the driver’s seat for those engagements. That’s where LotPop succeeds as a tech-oriented marketing company working with dealers around the U.S. to improve sales volumes. The latest iteration of growth followed after the addition of new products and services. 43 Custom Tree Care Growth: 150.44% Average Annual Growth Rate: 50.15% Full-time employees: 30 One man’s disaster is another man’s growth opportunity. In this case, the second fellow is Greg Gathers, owner of Custom Tree Care. In this CR100 cycle, his Topeka company has kicked revenues into a higher gear through its Disaster Response Division. Creation of that unit allowed Custom Tree to provide responses to hurricanes, ice storms, tornadoes, windstorms, and wildfires across the nation. 44 Platinum Realty Growth: 141.62% Average Annual Growth Rate: 47.21% Full-time employees: 22 Save for one near miss, Scott DeNeve has had Platinum Realty in the CR100—topping out at No. 7—every year since it first became eligible in 2011. That impressive run ends after this year’s merger with United Real Estate Group, and serves as validation of DeNeve’s vision that a real-estate firm can thrive by enabling agents and giving them incentives, in the form of full commission retention. 45 United Real Estate Group Growth: 139.11% Average Annual Growth Rate: 46.37% Full-time employees: 214 It was a one-in-99 shot that United would end up adjacent to the company it recently acquired—Platinum Realty. But it’s a sure sign that Dan Duffy is on the same fast-growth wavelength as the PlatinumTeam. A hard-charging series of acquisitions has driven spectacular growth at UREG, with more likely to come as he capitalizes on faltering competition with the nation’s home-sales market bracing for a slowdown. 46 Heartland Macs Growth: 136.78% Average Annual Growth Rate: 45.59% 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $1,427,744 2018: $602,987 Full-time employees: 8 HeartlandMacs handles service, support, repair, monitoring and maintenance for PCs andMacs, providing IT services to businesses, residences and schools. Response to the pandemic-inspiredwork-from-home wave, plus revised roles for the leadership to handle rapid change, helped drive growth. Other drivers: tapping into the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program for guidance, and securing a new permanent home office. 47 Canopy Road Real Estate Growth: 129.87% Average Annual Growth Rate: 43.29% Full-time employees: 8 This Kansas City brokerage that offers one-stop shopping for real-estate investors, with services such as rental-rate research and other data, and smooth transition to property-management responsibilities. “Our growth throughout the last few years is primarily due to our service and acquisitions,” says Brent Voepel, founder. “Throughout the years we have come to learn what real-estate investors want and need”. 48 D&L Transport Growth: 128.65% Average Annual Growth Rate: 42.88% 7th Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $287,462,587 2018: $125,721,105 Full-time employees: 180 Working with more than 50,000 approved carriers, Overland Park-based D&L Transport provides freight brokerage services nationwide, and declaring a mission to serve clients with reliability, competitive pricing, integrity, and by exceeding expectations. Brian DeFrain, president, attributes grow to D&L’s “commitment to recruiting, developing and supporting our talent,” as well as gross-roots recruiting. 49 NBKC Growth: 127.48% Average Annual Growth Rate: 42.49% 5th Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $377,255,000 2018: $165,838,000 Full-time employees: 424 Mortgage lending and an embrace of fintech tools has turned family-owned NBKC bank into a rising star in the financial-services sector. The bank proudly declares an average on-line ranking of 4.9 out of 5 possible stars, based on an impressive 19,000 customer reviews. It says the formula for success comes from a blend of online-friendly services, competitive rates, personal service and innovation. 50 Hometown Lawn Growth: 127.21% Average Annual Growth Rate: 42.40% Full-time employees: 9 This company based in Olathe designs, builds and maintains exteriors for residential, commercial and municipal properties. Among its services are lawn care and landscape maintenance, routine sprinkler installation and repair, advanced-engineered drainage solutions and out door living-space design and installation. Diversified offerings and expanded services, says chief executive Holly Brucker, lit the growth fuse. Gross Revenue: 2021: $6,141,000 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $2,421,432 2018: $943,491 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $13,565,711 2018: $5,416,722 Gross Revenue: 2021: $81,956,181 2018: $33,919,228 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $377,546,072 2018: $157,899,246 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2021: $1,022,277 2018: $444,711 Gross Revenue: 2021: $2,396,200 2018: $1,054,600

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