FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (of interest to editors covering: Awards/Honors, Entertainment, Publishing, PR/Marketing, Calif. Business) Entertainment Publisher Neotrope Makes its First Appearance on the Inc. 5000 TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 12, 2009 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Neotrope (www.neotrope.com), a leading brand identity, content publisher, public relations, and entertainment company, today announced its first appearance on Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the top 5,000 fastest-growing private U.S. companies. "Our dedication to remaining relatively small to maintain a person-to-person relationship with our clients has helped us with steady growth over the past decade," said Christopher Simmons, president and CEO. "We have always taken a quality versus quantity approach, and making the Inc. 5000 this year only validates this strategy as we celebrate our 26th anniversary." He added, "Of course, none of our success would have been possible without some truly wonderful clients, many of whom we have developed friendships with and even strategic partnerships." Between 2005 and 2008, Neotrope achieved a modest 22.5 percent growth rate with less than 5 full-time employees. Neotrope's 2009 Inc. 5000 ranking further enhances the company's long standing reputation for excellence and customer service. Additionally, as part of its long history of corporate social responsibility, earlier this year Neotrope donated over $25,000 in PR Grants to worthy small non-profits "doing good," in response to the continuing economic downturn. This was the fifth such PR Grant program which started in the mid 1990s. In 2010, the grant program will be named after the late company co-founder, J.L. Simmons, PhD. "We just began a major rebranding effort and started the relaunch of many of our online properties, which will fully roll-out in Q4 of this year," said Simmons. "We will also be offering a quite unique CMS and social networking solution for small business, based on our ContextEngine(R) technology, first introduced in 1997." The Inc. 5000 list is comprised of U.S. companies and is based on the growth percentage of gross revenue from 2005 to 2008. It offers a comprehensive look at the entrepreneurial engine driving the U.S. economy. The complete Inc. 5000 results are available at www.inc5000.com. About Neotrope Neotrope was founded in 1983 by multi-disciplined creative guru Christopher Laird Simmons, and Dr. J.L. Simmons, PhD, and has provided consistent solutions for brand identity, PR, Internet marketing, entertainment publishing and multimedia for over 25 years. Neotrope brands include DotComMojo(TM), California Newswire(R), CitizenWire(TM), ContextEngine(R), eMediaKit(TM), eNewsChannels(TM), Florida Newswire(TM), Mindstock(R), MuseWire(TM), PRTrax(TM), Send2Press(R), and many others. More information: www.neotrope.com and www.neotrope.net. Neotrope(R) is a trademark registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other referenced product names, and other marks, are trademarks of their respective owners. Send2Press(R) is the originating wire service for this story, Copr. 2009. NEWS SOURCE: # # # // RELEASE END // MEDIA ONLY CONTACT(S): [ contact info below not for publication online or in print ] Christopher Simmons Neotrope +1-310-373-4856 support @ neotrope.com //Note to editors: * Print-ready images may be requested from the above media contact. ......... Plain Text Copy, and Story Permalink: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/2009-08-0812-004.txt Release PDF: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/news_2009-08-0812-004.pdf Get our full-text news via RSS: http://www.Send2Press.com/RSS2/rss.xml RSS feeds by news topic: http://feeds.send2press.com/idx_RSS.shtml Add our news to your blog or Web site automatically: http://feeds.send2press.com/ ......... Text provided by news source (and/or the source's authorized agency), who is solely responsible for accuracy and legality of content transmitted. Information is believed accurate but is not guaranteed. ......... This news story from Send2Press Newswire may be redistributed and re-posted in part or in whole by members of the media. Copr. (c) Send2Press, a unit of Neotrope(R). For news aggregation sites, blogs, and bureaus, you must retain Send2Press as the original wire service source. You may capture and self-host images linked to in above release, but do NOT stream from our server. ......... The original version of this release was issued on behalf of the above organization (the "news source"), by Send2Press(R) Newswire, a service of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com/ ......... AUGUST 2009 Press Release / HSE US=(CA) / pre = / ytv = / agency = () / prt = / /END/