NUMBER FIVE:
HOMOLY CONSTRUCTION
1st Year

Gross Revenue:
2009: $6,451,886
2006: $1,496,016
Growth: 331.27%
Full-time employees: 7

Andy Homoly’s reputation as a rising force within the Kansas City business community earned him a spot in Ingram’s 40 Under Forty earlier this year. Now, the numbers are in that show just how strong a force: A four-year growth rate of better than 331 percent for his Northland construction company.

Homoly Construction specializes in the rapidly developing sustainability segment for both residential and light commercial construction, as well as remodeling work. He cites three reasons for the company’s success: “Strong core values. Green building. Working on the business, not just in the business,” he says.

Those core values go back to what he learned as a boy, working on construction sites for his father—who now is part of Andy’s staff. Homoly Construction’s revenues more than doubled between 2008 and 2009, and all of that was accomplished with a work force of exactly seven.

NUMBER SIX:
INTOUCH SOLUTIONS
3rd Year

Gross Revenue:
2009: $22,274,238
2006: $5,816,099
Growth: 282.98%
Full-time employees: 158

Digital marketing agency Intouch Solutions has a client list that reads like a Who’s Who of the pharmaceutical industry: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Teva, Abbott, Baxter, Roche, Abbott and more, and an even longer list of pharmaceutical products.

Faruk Capan founded the company in 1999, and has carved out its place among on-line marketing agencies. Intouch serves its clients through a broad mix of Internet-based applications, including Web sites, e-mail, search marketing, social and mobile media, and interactive programming.

Expertise in pharmaceuticals, layered over the marketing competencies, distinguishes Intouch from other marketing firms, the company says. Many a company gets to growth numbers of nearly 283 percent through acquisitions, but “success in delivering projects,” says business development manager Maureen Shields, “has led to organic growth with existing and new clients” for Intouch.

NUMBER SEVEN:
P/STRADA
1st Year

Gross Revenue:
2009: $3,683,636
2006: $983,000
Growth: 274.73%
Full-time employees: 77

For Patrice Manuel, the formula is simple: Creativity + Innovation = Success. But to do that math on an organizational level, you need managers who understand how things really get done. And that’s where P/Strada, comes in, providing management-consulting services in a wide range of fields: organizational development, diversity integration, project oversight, homeland security, e-waste recycling and commercial furniture sales. The common thread in those seemingly unrelated tasks? “Project management,” Manuel says. After 20 years in the Army, where she honed her own project-management skills, Manuel founded the Kansas City company in 2001. It took six years to cross the million-dollar revenue mark, but only one more to double that. By early 2009, the company was on a roll as the economy was on the skids. “We chose not to participate” in the recession, Manuel says. Organic growth and acquisitions pushed her staff of 14 at the start of 2009 to 77 by the end of the year.