The 2015 CRN Fast50 ceremony was held at the Four Season hotel in Sydney last Thursday. Now in its seventh year, the CRN Fast50 recognises the fastest-growing companies in the Australian IT channel, based on year-on-year revenue growth.
By adhering to a strictly numbers-based formula, the CRN Fast50 continues to earn respect and recognition as the only awards program in the Australian technology industry that truly recognises the best businesses based on hard facts.
Overall, the 50 companies across this year’s awards generated $665.1 million of revenue in 2015, and employed more than 3,000 people. The average company was just under 10 years old, employed 66 staff and posted revenue of $13.3 million.
Each year, it becomes harder to score a place on the CRN Fast50. In 2014, the threshold for admission was 18.31 percent growth; this year it was 26.05 percent – the first time that the barrier to entry was greater than 20 percent. There have been more than 180 CRN Fast50 companies since it launched in 2009. Only one – blueAPACHE – has featured for all seven years.
James Hendry and Darron Hutchison from blueAPACHE were on hand to receive our second ALL STAR award from CRN and official award sponsor, Fujitsu.
Pictured: Fujitsu’s Daniel Campbell, blueAPACHE’s James Hendry and CRN’s Steven Kiernan
“We are thrilled to be included in the CRN Fast50 for a record seventh time and to be presented with our second ALL STAR award,” said James. “This reinforces that our customer-centric focus is resonating with the market, and the growing team at blueAPACHE are continuing to do extraordinary things.
“No other technology provider has achieved such recognition, and it is only the dedication of our staff and the valuable relationships we have with our clients that has proffered our exceptional growth year on year. We are looking forward to building on this, and participating again in 2016.”
For more information on the Fast50, visit CRN.