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Corporate Report 100 71 CRB Gross Revenue: 2022: $1,250,000,000

Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.83%

Growth: 83.48% 2019: $681,270,000

16th Year Full-time employees: 1,028 Engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting: This design firm does it all and has racked up recognition on various levels: According to Engineering News-Record, the Bible for that industry, CRB is No. 36 among the nation’s Top 100 design firms, No. 2 for design firms in manufacturing for the pharmaceutical sector, and No. 8 among manufacturing firms in the food and beverage class. 72 ECCO Select Growth: 83.39% Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.80% 12th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $72,200,000 2019: $39,369,882 Full-time employees: 422 Leveraging its status as both a woman-owned and minority-owned enterprise in the IT space, ECCO specializes in professional services, staffing, and management consulting. It serves a wide variety of industries, including financial services, transportation, public service and government, non-profit, energy, utilities, communications, health, life science, travel, and retail. 73 Davidson A + E Growth: 83.24% Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.75% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $13,107,156 2019: $7,152,947 Full-time employees: 26 Overland Park-based Davidson A+E is a full-service design firm with a staff of 25 specializing in industrial and retail development with its suite of architecture, civil engineering, interior architecture, and master planning services. Founded in 1995 by John Davidson, it embraces four founding principles that have sustained success and growth: communication, commitment, creativity, and innovation. 74 Native Digital Growth: 81.79% Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.26% 5th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $5,636,373.58 2019: $3,100,449.33 Full-time employees: 24 Kansas City’s Native Digital is a brand messaging and performance marketing firm helping brands acquire customers where they live: online. “Brands are looking for name recognition and customer acquisition,” says vice president Lisa Anderson. “We deliver both, and the data proves it.” The firm’s service line includes audience intel, positioning and value proposition guidance, among others. 75 Smart Warehousing Growth: 81.03% Average Annual Growth Rate: 27.01% 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $151,740,000 2019: $83,820,000 Full-time employees: 463 Leveraging the power of tech in logistics, Smart Warehousing helps third-party logistics providers get the most out of robotics, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, performing tasks like inventory management and product location with reduced human effort. Founder Carl Wassinger says growth factors include “our people, our technology, and our customers.” 76 Basys Processing Growth: 78.95% Average Annual Growth Rate: 26.32% 1st Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $68,033,864 2019: $38,018,975 Full-time employees: 143 This Lenexa-based company, the financial-services arm of the Oddo family business enterprises, provides credit-card processing products and programs for banks and merchants nationwide. Founded in 2002, and led by CEO Brad Oddo, it has grown into one of the region’s big gest in the payments sector by going above and beyond with services like breach insurance, next-day funding, and superior customer service. 77 McCray Lumber Growth: 75.57% Average Annual Growth Rate: 25.19% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $212,443,422 2019: $121,000,000 Full-time employees: 241 Claiming status as a fast-growth company at the spry corporate age of 115 isn’t easy, but McCray Lumber is getting it done as a one-stop shop for contractors and homeowners alike: framing lumber, materials for decks, siding, doors and windows, trim, molding and a lot more. Based in Olathe, it has five lumber yards, half a million square feet of products in covered storage, and 50 acres of open lumber yard. 78 Universal Auto Plaza Growth: 75.55% Average Annual Growth Rate: 25.18% 5th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $55,933,965 2019: $31,861,777 Full-time employees: 75 A worldwide shortage of new-vehicle parts, especially computer chips, triggered a massive burst in the valuations of used vehicles even before the global pandemic made things a lot worse in 2020. That left Universal Auto Plaza, with its used-car business model, poised for growth, and it has capitalized with a unique inventory. As recently as this month, you could find a 1939 Jaguar Roadster among its listings. 79 Spencer Fane Growth: 75.11% Average Annual Growth Rate: 25.04% 4th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $229,034,658 2019: $130,796,000 Full-time employees: 663 With more than a score of practice groups operating from nearly two dozen offices nationwide, Spencer Fane is all about the business of business law. Tracing its roots to 1879, it has practice groups in banking, health care, employment law, corporate M&A, and many other fields. “We’re focused on client-centered growth that is aligned with our culture and values,” says firm chairman Pat Whalen. 80 Centric Growth: 74.42% Average Annual Growth Rate: 24.81% 5th Year Gross Revenue: 2022: $169,650,000 2019: $97,266,128 Full-time employees: 125 Project versatility turned Centric from a Great Recession-era startup into a $100 million company in less than a decade, and if it can hold the current growth arc for another year, it’ll soon double that mark. From office and health-care space to residential construction and industrial sites, apartments, and retail settings, this Crossroads-based company has nimbly pursued the work where it presented itself.

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