IPR International Named One of Philadelphia’s Fastest Growing Companies Honored for Third Consecutive Year

Philadelphia, PA,  October 26, 2007 – For the third consecutive year, Conshohocken based IPR International has been named one the “Fastest Growing Companies” in the Philadelphia Region.  The Philadelphia 100® is an annual program conducted by the Entrepreneurs' Forum of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia Business Journal and Wharton Small Business Development Center.   The 2007 Philadelphia 100® marks the 19th anniversary of this event.
This honor comes on the heels of IPR being recognized by Inc Magazine as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America

Founded in 2002, IPR specializes in the development and deployment of data protection and data recovery services.  Partnering with companies like EMC, CA, Data Domain, NetApp and others, IPR takes a best-of-breed approach with each client, designing unique solutions to meet or exceed the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for each client.  Currently protecting client data in 17 countries around the world, IPR manages 250 terabytes of storage through a service offering that includes high availability for immediate failover, replication, disk-to-disk backup and a suite of archiving solutions for email, images and files systems.  “We are extremely honored to be so recognized by the business leaders and press community of our region,” said Mike Emmi, Chairman and CEO of IPR International.  “We were first recognized three years ago,  and to be so honored for three consecutive years has made our entire organization, clients, shareholders and employees, extremely proud.”

About Philadelphia 100
The Philadelphia 100® is an annual program conducted by the Entrepreneurs' Forum of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia Business Journal and Wharton Small Business Development Center.   The program culminates at a prestigious Awards Ceremony and Dinner honoring the fastest growing, privately held companies. 

The companies that comprised last year's Philadelphia 100 had a median growth rate of 154%, an average of 100 employees, revenues close to $10 million and an average life of 11 years.

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Media Contact: Alice Quinn     
Vice President of Marketing
IPR International, LLC
161 Washington Street – 8 Tower Bridge
Conshohocken, PA 19428
484-533-6800