Online Market Intelligence: Digimind ranked 1st in Deloitte FAST 500

Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA

The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA is a highly acknowledged list of the top technological companies within Europe. It groups together the fastest developing firms from all types of technology sectors: from the Internet to biotechnologies, from healthcare to software. It includes both publicly listed and private companies.

Prepared from regional figures then consolidated nationwide, this prestigious list focuses on a single objective and non-negotiable criterion: the average growth in turnover over a five-year period (from 2001 to 2005). This list does not therefore reward pure "potential", preferring to distinguish companies which have already proved their capacity to create value and which have sufficient resources and experience to maintain their growth.

“Attracting enough customers to attain such fast growth over five years makes a strong statement about the quality of a company’s product and its leadership,” said Tony Kern, responsible for Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications industry practice.

Digimind again ahead of the pack, as highest rated market and competitive intelligence software provider

Digimind has grown continually and on average by 525% over the last five years, accelerating to reach a rate of 70% in 2005. As the first software provider specializing in market and competitive intelligence to be placed in the Fast500, Digimind confirms its position as the leading market and competitive intelligence software provider in Europe and rises 42 places in the general EMEA rating, now placed 88th in the highly prized category of software providers.

On a national level, Digimind was awarded "Gazelle" status by the Ministry for Small and Medium Enterprises earlier this year, was rated 17th French software provider in the European FAST 500, earned 34th place in the FAST 50 France list comprising all business categories and, last but not least, was named 5th fastest-growing technological company in the Rhône-Alpes region.

This performance is even more outstanding compared to other FAST companies - and indeed other market and competitive intelligence software providers - as Digimind is completely auto-financed and profitable. The founders enjoy strong majority control over the capital and are able to maintain impressive acceleration at this stage, while ensuring the company's long term future.

"We are very proud of these results and the rating," says Paul Vivant, President of Digimind's Board of Directors. "Digimind is being compared to some of the highest growth companies in Europe and now plays in the same league as Europe's best. These results bear witness to the excellence of our technologies and our capacity to deliver value to our customers."

Continued growth with expansion abroad

Digimind's high growth rates remained strong in 2006 due in part to noteworthy signatures with Schneider Electric, Remy-Cointreau, Burson-Marsteller and Bouygues Telecom. The company predicts renewed acceleration next year with the introduction of several major innovations and the pursuit of its international development, demonstrated by the hot-off-the-press contract with Unilever worldwide headquarters in London.

To find out more about the "Deloitte European Technology Fast 500":
http://www.fast500europe.com
To find out more about Digimind: http://www.digimind.com