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UPSIDE Magazine Names BrassRing Inc. Among The "Hot 100" Private Companies for 2001
The sixth annual UPSIDE Hot 100 Award recognizes innovation, leadership, and performance
WALTHAM, Mass. (May 30, 2001) - BrassRing Inc., today announced that it has been named as a recipient of one of UPSIDE Magazine's sixth annual Hot 100 Awards. The firm is the only Talent Relationship Management (TRM) solutions provider on this year's list.
BrassRing, which was selected as an UPSIDE Hot 100 company in the Business-to- Business (B-to-B) category, was one of 100 private companies singled out by the editors of UPSIDE and an advisory panel comprised of venture capitalists, financial analysts, and market researchers. More than 800 companies were nominated for this year's UPSIDE Hot 100 Awards. Each company was judged on the basis of its technological achievements, customer acceptance of products or services, financial performance, industry partnerships, financial backing, and management experience. The complete list of the UPSIDE Hot 100 Award winners is published in the June 2001 issue of UPSIDE.
"We evaluated hundreds of great companies that spanned a broad range of technology market segments, and we are pleased to recognize BrassRing among this year's winners," said Jerry Borrell, President and Editor in Chief of UPSIDE Magazine. "We look forward to watching the progress of UPSIDE's 2001 Hot 100 Award winners over the next year or so, and we hope they continue to make news as they potentially move from being privately held to becoming publicly traded companies."
The year 2000 was a year of unprecedented growth for BrassRing, which counts 5,000 companies as its customers, including numerous Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies. In December of 2000, Information Week named BrassRing Systems as one of its Top 100 Application Service Providers (ASPs). Today, BrassRing Systems' Enterprise Talent Relationship Management solution has over 15,000 registered users, making BrassRing Systems the largest enterprise TRM solutions provider in the market. On the candidate sourcing side, BrassRing's MBA database contains the resumes of the graduating classes of the nation's Top 25 MBA programs (as ranked by US News & World Report). In addition, the company sponsors over 300 high tech career events each year and receives over two million visitors a month to its job boards, all of which contributed to BrassRing being named to the IDC Top 10 eRecruiting companies list in 2001.
"This is a tremendous honor for BrassRing, and we are absolutely thrilled that UPSIDE has recognized us not only as a leader in our industry, but as a leader among a group of very accomplished companies," said Deborah Besemer, president and CEO of BrassRing Inc. "As a company, we are dedicated to being the leader in the application of technology to all areas of the recruiting process, including candidate sourcing, recruiting services and systems."
David Bunnell, Upside Media's CEO, helped to create this annual event-the listing of the "hottest" private technology companies. As a veteran of some 20 years in technology publishing and high-tech startups, Bunnell wants to "remind all of our readers that, while economic cycles in technology come and go, the kinds of companies that the editors of the magazine have recognized in this list are ones that have proven, year after year, to be those companies that often rise to the top of the next cycle. They are companies and people who bring innovation and new technology to the forefront."
About BrassRing
BrassRing Inc. is a leading provider of both integrated candidate sourcing solutions and Talent Relationship Management (TRM) systems. The firm sponsors over 300 technology career events in North America and Europe, and provides a variety of online recruiting solutions to help companies develop relationships with hard-to-find candidates. In addition, BrassRing Systems Enterprise is the industry's leading TRM solution. BrassRing Inc. is owned by The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO), Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB), Gannett Co., Inc (NYSE:GCI), Accel Partners and its employees. For additional information, visit www.brassring.com.
UPSIDE Magazine provides timely news and commentary on the issues, people, technology, and capital that are changing the technology business world. UPSIDE is delivered to more than 300,000 executive-level readers.
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