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Corporate Report 100 41 Collision Leaders Gross Revenue: 2022: $10,581,364

Average Annual Growth Rate: 58.92%

Growth: 176.76% 2019: $3,823,311

42 Vest Professional Placement Firm Growth: 165.78% Average Annual Growth Rate: 55.26% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $6,295,478.43 2019: $2,368,703.15 Full-time employees: 5 A diverse range of staffing services—temporary associates, temporary-to-hire, contract employees, on-site recruiter, and direct hire placements—have all come together to fuel growth at Vest Professional Services. Probationary hiring, a type of try-before you-hire function, has also spurred interest in the firm’s ability to deliver workers across a wide range of business sectors, 43 TFL (Formerly Tickets for Less) Growth: 164.17% Average Annual Growth Rate: 54.72% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $157,098,667 2019: $59,469,725 Full-time employees: 38 A sleeker brand image has this Johnson County events-ticket exchange, formerly Tickets for Less, firing on all cylinders, and that’s before Taylor Swift started skewing the market with her Kansas City tour stop. A history of acquisitions, expanded offer ings, and now a nationwide footprint has yielded a company that powers websites for more than 300 companies. 44 GBA Companies Growth: 162.09% Average Annual Growth Rate: 54.03% 2nd Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $195,405,577 2019: $74,555,397 Full-time employees: 513 This design-services firm based in Lenexa has 15 offices nationwide and a portfolio of projects that number in the thousands, including large-scale transportation infrastructure, water systems, and logistics facilities. GBA’s service line includes architecture and engineering, asset management, building-code services, development review and planning, fire protection and more. 45 Metro Construction, Inc. Growth: 158.11% Average Annual Growth Rate: 52.70% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $13,011,918.00 2019: $5,041,202.28 Full-time employees: DD Metro Construction is a nationwide general contracting and construction management firm specializing in multi-location build outs and ground-up construction for medical, retail, and office use. For most of its history, Metro was primarily a tenant finish/ buildout operation, but in 2020, it began hiring staff with broader skill sets, allowing the company to reach clients in other sectors. 46 Friend That Cooks Growth: 151.31% Average Annual Growth Rate: 50.44% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $6,756,394 2019: $2,688,505 Full-time employees: 87 When busy families need a hand managing mealtimes, Friend That Cooks steps in with in-home weekly meal preparation services. That means everything from planning a menu, shopping, cooking, clean-up, and stocking a family’s refrigerator with a week’s worth of meals that can be reheated. The formula works, with an annualized growth rate of 67.7 percent since its inception in 2007. 47 Marknology Growth: 149.91% Average Annual Growth Rate: 49.97% 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $1,974,667.41 2019: $790,146.10 Full-time employees: 32 Marknology is a full-service agency for brands and manufacturers using Amazon, offering a selling system for launching products on all e-commerce platforms and managing more than 200 million sales on Amazon alone. “We had been preparing to scale before COVID,” says owner Andrew Morgans. “However, the pandemic really had a positive effect on e-commerce as a whole.” 48 Ashlar Homes Growth: 146.16% Average Annual Growth Rate: 48.72% 2nd Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $36,331,862.15 2019: $14,759,578.53 Full-time employees: 21 Even as the home construction space constricted with rising interest rates in 2022, Ashlar Homes was able to boost sales by more than 50 percent year-over-year. The key? Strategic changes to reduce marketing costs and provide homes priced competitively for the downsizing or first-time home buyers’ market—catching both the Baby Boomers as well as buyers from the youngest generations. 49 UTXL Growth: 143.74% Average Annual Growth Rate: 47.91% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $142,304,898.81 2019: $58,382,939.00 Full-time employees: 33 A third-party logistics company, UTXL boasts a management team with more than a century of asset-based management experi ence. It provides reliable, cost-effective capacity plus technology solutions for shippers nationwide, attributing growth to its com mitment to safety and service, strict carrier guidelines, award-winning technologies and 24/7 live customer service. 50 Neighbors Construction Growth: 141.28% Average Annual Growth Rate: 47.09% 6th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $76,510,000 2019: $31,710,000 Full-time employees: 38 Based in Lenexa, Neighbors Construction is a family-owned contractor that runs three generations deep, specializing in multi family projects across the Kansas City region. One of its signature statements is the Power & Light Building, where it took the lead in a transformation to a residential tower; another is the massive CORE | Modern Apartments on Berkley Riverfront project. Full-time employees: 91 Casey Lund took the longtime family business in Warrensburg and updated it with a regional vision, acquiring other auto motive repair facilities in various Missouri markets as Warrensburg Collision morphed into Collision Leaders. The results speak for themselves, as revenues have nearly tripled in recent years for an enterprise that now boasts six locations. 5th Year

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