Established in 1967 Media Resources [1] is an integrated sign services and manufacturing company providing Large Format Printing, Digital LED Displays, 3D Fabrication/3D Printing and Sign Installation services to the sign and display industry. Media Resources has completed work in Canada, the United States, Central and South America.
They’ve recently been recognised for their rapid revenue growth, bold innovation and its entrepreneurial spirit with a Technology Fast 50 program [2] award on the 2017 Technology Fast 500™ by Deloitte LLP.
The Fast 50 program honours 50 Canadian technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the past four years. Media Resources ranked 45th with 447.44% CAD in revenue growth from 2013 to 2016. The Technology Fast 50 program winners are made up of public and private companies in the technology sector that share common traits and strengths and have transformed the industry.
Using the same 447.44% CAD revenue growth, Media Resources also ranked 260th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America.
Media Resources CEO Jeff Rushton, credits the firm’s employees and committed customers for the company’s 447.44% CAD percent revenue growth and told us “Forward thinking improvements, increased product awareness and great relationships within in the digital billboard and commercial sign markets were a significant part of our growth and successes over the past few years. We began developing our new technologies a few years ago. As part of that process we engaged our customers to understand what they were really looking for in today’s products. That, combined with a passionate & committed team of employees who sell, manufacture and service the products and an aggressive push across the entire North American market space created the growth we experienced. At the end of the day my business partners and I are very proud to have the team we do, and very appreciative of the support our customer’s continue to provide.”
The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program is Canada’s pre-eminent technology awards program. Celebrating business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, the program features three distinct categories including the Technology Fast 50 Ranking, Companies-to-Watch Awards (early-stage Canadian tech companies with the potential to be a future Deloitte Technology Fast 50 candidate) and the Leadership Awards (companies that demonstrate technological leadership and innovation within the industry.) Program sponsors include Deloitte, Aequitas NEO Exchange, Bank of Montreal, Bennett Jones, CBRE, OMERS Ventures and Wellington Financial.
Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2013 to 2016. In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years and be headquartered within North America.