Renaissance Creative Services Ranked Jacksonville's 6th Fastest Growing Private Company On Business Journal's "Fast 50" List
Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) July 24, 2005
Renaissance Creative Services, the nine-year-old real estate marketing and brand development company was named Jacksonville's 6th fastest growing private company in the Jacksonville Business Journal's 2005 "Fast 50" competition, the company reported.
This year's rankings were revealed July 14th during a luncheon hosted by the Jacksonville Business Journal at Alltel Stadium. Over 700 guests attended the event, including various corporate leaders, their employees, VIP's and event sponsors. The occasion marked the third time in the past four years that Renaissance had been named to the list. The firm was ranked #10 in 2004 and #25 in 2002.
To be eligible for the competition, a company must have demonstrated three consecutive years of revenue growth with minimum annual revenue of $1 million dollars. The rankings are based on the total average annual percentage growth over the last three years. From 2002 to 2004, Renaissance's growth rate averaged 74.5% annually. The company had total revenue of $2.85 million in 2004.
Renaissance is headed by company president and co-creative director, Tim Hamby, along with Partners and co-creative directors, Matthew Britt and Architect, Ed Bondi. The firm has two offices inside the Perimeter Park office complex near the intersection of Southside Boulevard and J. Turner Butler Boulevard.
Renaissance specializes in residential, commercial and resort real-estate marketing, offering a broad range of services including comprehensive advertising and public relations services, marketing and media planning, brand development, graphic design, web-development, architectural and interior design services, and signage programs.
Hamby said the company was enjoying a healthy growth rate again this year, with revenue up by 50% at the end of the second quarter. The firm has grown from 10 to 20 employees over the past two years and has increased office space twice, with plans to expand further in the spring of 2006.
"We, of course, have been excited about the rapid growth over the past few years and our performance(s) in this prestigious competition", said Hamby. But, our goal has never been to be the biggest; only to be consistent in producing outstanding work and developing a solid reputation as a company that people want to work with. When you can achieve that, growth happens naturally."
Britt pointed out that the company's growth was primarily a byproduct of its own success, as opposed to a concerted effort to grow. "We're particularly proud of the fact that our growth has been directly related to leaving our clients satisfied. We've done very little in the way of self-promotion over the years, relying almost exclusively on repeat and referral business. There are no salespeople or anyone assigned to new business development; only very talented creatives and experienced service professionals", he said.
Bondi added that the company's real-estate marketing niche and broad experience within that field had also played a key role. "It was always our vision to occupy this highly-specialized niche and to be the very best we could at it. As it worked out, real-estate has become one of the hottest and enduring market sectors over the past several years. The southeast, and North Florida in particular, has become one of the most active regions for development and people in the industry know we are a name they can trust".
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