Weather Trends International is proud to announce that it has been ranked #5 on Forbes 2009 Top 20 list for America’s Most Promising companies. WTI was selected from thousands of companies across the U.S. and is the only company on the list in the tri-state metropolitan area (New York-Pennsylvania-New Jersey). The list is available on Forbes.com now and will be in the magazine this week (October 5th issue).
Forbes performed an exhaustive search to compose this list of young, vibrant companies with high growth potential. Slickest technology, size of market, experience of management team and meeting product cycle benchmarks were just some of the criteria considered by Forbes and a partner team, Venture Alliance. As quoted by Forbes, inclusion on this list “of small, dynamic companies with this kind of growth potential is sure to make venture capitalists salivate”.
“We were excited a month ago when we were a featured finalist but to be ranked #5 in the final list is an absolute honor,” said Bill Kirk, CEO of Weather Trends International. “I am very proud of our passionate and dedicated employees who take care of our loyal clients who took the leap of faith that long range business-weather planning is real and actionable,” added Kirk.
Details about Forbes Most Promising Companies in America are available at http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/promising-companies/.
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About Weather Trends International: The global leader of actionable year-ahead business weather guidance for retailers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural firms, financial analysts and the movie industry. Clients include some of the world’s most respected and successful companies like Wal-Mart, ASDA, Target, Kohl’s, Calypso, Reckitt Benckiser, Town Shoes, Sherwin-Williams, AutoZone, Anheuser-Busch, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, SC Johnson, JP Morgan, Agway, Hershey’s and over a hundred others. Its business centric weather solutions and understanding of how consumers respond to the weather is used throughout organizations to help "manage the weather risk”. Utilizing technology first developed in the early 1990s, Weather Trends International’s unique statistical math based trade secret formula forecasting methodology projects temperature, precipitation and snowfall trends by day and week a year-ahead for 52,000+ locations across the globe with an industry leading 80%+ accuracy. WTI is recipient of 5 business/technology awards this year: 2009 winner of the Red Herring North America technology award, 2009 winner of the American Business Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year, International Business Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year in North America and Forbes #5 Most Promising Company of the year. Offices in Bethlehem, PA, and Bentonville, AR. Visit http://www.wxtrends.com/ or http://www.myskeye.com/ for more information.
