BizTimes Media and our event partner, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, are pleased to once again recognize this year’s Future 50 companies. Based on submitted nominations and an objective ranking of sales and employee growth, these are the fastest-growing privately held companies in the southeastern Wisconsin region.
While calculating the results for Future 50, our team looks at how this year’s point totals compare to previous years. At nearly every point in the rankings, this year’s companies scored lower than the 2023 winners. That’s not a knock on this year’s winners. Inflation and higher interest rates have put pressure on many parts of our region’s economy.
The fact that these companies have continued to press ahead and grow in a challenging environment is a testament to the businesses, their leaders and especially their employees. Together, the 50 companies have projected 6,581 employees and $4.17 billion in annual sales for 2024, an increase of 48% and 62%, respectively, when compared to 2021.
Fast-growing companies are innovators and job creators. They develop leaders and buy goods and services in the market, fostering a healthy local economy. Of the 50, 23 are in manufacturing, logistics, distribution or wholesale trade, and 11 are in construction.
As was the case last year, half of the 50 companies were founded before 2000, which is great to see. You don’t have to be a startup to be a fast-growing company.
Established by the MMAC in 1988, the Future 50 program recognizes the fastest-growing privately owned companies in the eight-county southeastern Wisconsin area that have been in business for at least three years and have shown significant revenue and employment growth. There is no age limit for companies to participate. There is also now no limit to the number of years a company can be a Future 50 winner, because it’s vital for the growth of our region to have companies continue to innovate, reinvent and grow.
The Future 50 program is one of the many ways in which BizTimes Media encourages business growth in southeastern Wisconsin, including through our award-winning news coverage, our in-depth industry analysis and our educational and awards events throughout the year.
Thank you all for letting us share your success stories, and please reach out when you have more news to share. On behalf of BizTimes Media, the MMAC, our presenting sponsor Old National Bank and supporting sponsor Jet OUT, thank you and congratulations to the Future 50 winners.
The Future 50 winners received their awards at a lunch program at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee on Sept. 20. Learn more about the companies in their profiles on the following pages.
2024 Future 50 Winners:
- A.B. Data, Ltd.
- American Construction Services
- Aras Promotions
- Ark Staffing & CRNA Together
- Basic Metals, Inc.
- Benz Metal Products, Inc.
- Best Version Media
- Blast Cleaning Technologies, Inc.
- Briohn Building Corporation
- Campbell Construction JC, Inc.
- CPV Paint & Graphics
- Craft Beverage Warehouse LLC
- Empower Electric
- E-Plan Exam
- Evans Transportation Services
- F Street Group
- GIGAFLIGHT Connectivity Inc.
- Glenn Rieder, LLC
- Great Lakes Industrial
- Inpro Corporation
- James Imaging Systems
- KDV Label, LLC
- Koru Health, LLC
- Lakeland Supply, Inc.
- Lauber Business Partners, Inc.
- Learning Exchange
- Lee Mechanical
- Magellan Promotions
- MicroSynergies
- MilwaukeeWarehouse
- MKE Iron Erectors, Inc.
- Moore Construction Services
- Munson, Inc.
- New Resources Consulting
- Newport Network Solutions, Inc.
- Optimum Crush, Inc.
- Pattyn North America
- Ready Rebound
- River Run
- RJ Schinner
- Royal Basket Trucks, Inc.
- SETGO Partners
- SharkCrates
- Stratus Industries LLC
- TOTAL Mechanical, Inc.
- Valor Technologies
- VJS Construction Services
- Vyron
- Wixon
- Wolter, Inc.
