Fast 50 No. 43: Marco - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
What’s one business decision you made in the past three years that’s been critical to your frm’s growth? Our commitment to achieve double-digit growth, year-over-year – 50 percent organic growth, 50 percent through acquisitions. That commitment, coupled with our acquisition strategy to acquire copier companies in specifc regions and bring our IT business services to that market, has led to our substantial growth.
How has your company adjusted to new challenges caused by rapid growth? To facilitate our acquisition strategy we’ve developed a cross-functional acquisitions team that’s focused on integrating acquired companies using consistent methodology to achieve performance objectives in a timely manner. An employee on-boarding process and training procedure has been implemented to assist new employees adapting to Marco’s processes. We’ve also developed a leadership training and mentoring process to better develop emerging leaders to take advantage of opportunities in new markets. What do you expect your 2016 revenue to be?$275 million
GROWTH RATE 44.48% 2013 revenue: $152,267,226 2014 revenue: $179,991,002 2015 revenue: $219,988,312 Top executive: Jeff Gau Founded: 1973 Business: Technology services provider Employees at end of 2013: 670; now: 1,100-plus
