Technology Fast500 EMEA
All Fast50 Turkey winners are nominated into the Technology Fast500 EMEA program, a ranking of the fastest growing public and private technology companies throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The competition is now well established as the most objective awards of its type across 20 participating countries in EMEA.

Ranking is based on percentage of revenue growth over a five-year period, and is compiled from the winners of Deloitte's regional Fast50 competitions as well as from direct nominations and public company database research. Reaching this ranking is a significant achievement within the technology community. Companies may nominate themselves to join a local Fast50 program from April until June each year. Technology Fast500 EMEA winners are announced in Late November each year. Please check out www.fast500europe.com after this date for the ranking.

Winners of Technology Fast500 EMEA 2008

This was a surprisingly good year amidst the global economic turmoil, for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions in terms of high-growth technology company performance. UK’s Thunderhead. led the pack with 28,558 percent growth rate. Other companies in the top five are Netherlands-based, album creation software company Albumprinter, real-time location software firm Ubisense from the UK, renewable energy technology firm Morphic Technologies, and German, IT-consulting and software company Nextevolution.

The top five winners in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA are listed below. The regional Technology Fast 500 program, initiated in North America in 1997, is in its eighth year in EMEA.

For complete rankings and results, download the report.

Ranking

Company Name

Country

Industry Sector

%Revenue

1

Thunderhead Limited

United Kingdom

Software

28558.39%

2

Albumprinter

Netherlands

Media/Entertainment

21952.02%

3

Ubisense

United Kingdom

Software

15323.53%

4

Morphic Technologies AB (publ).

Sweden

Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Medical Equipment

10838.96%

5

Nextevolution AG

Germany

Software

10206.51%


Attachments

Lighting the way: Fast 500 EMEA Ranking and CEO Survey 2008 (1417 KB)
Published December November 2008; 52 pages; A TMT industry group report.

For further information, or to arrange interviews please contact:

Ebru Tuygun
Deloitte Turkey Technology Fast50 Coordinator


Tel. + 90 (212) 366 64 81
E-mail: etuygun@deloitte.com
Website: www.fast500europe.com