Rigid Industries LED Lighting, a manufacturer of forward projecting LED lighting via its patented optics systems announced its 2013 ranking of 151 on Inc. Magazine's 500|5000 Fastest Growing Companies list. Additionally, Rigid leads the industry as the fastest growing LED lighting manufacturer and the fifth fastest growing in overall manufacturing in the U.S., proving to be one of the moving companies of 2013. From 2009 – 2012, Rigid experienced an exponential growth rate of 2,528% and reached a lucrative US$ 24.1 million in 2012.
Rigid Industries started in 2004 in a garage and until 2009 only had six employees. Today, it owns two manufacturing facilities in Gilbert and Mesa, Arizona and employs over 140 personnel and ships to over 141 countries around the world.
"The fast growth is a testament to what we hold true and that is if you create the best technology and listen to your consumer first, your company growth will reflect it later," said Jason Christiansen, President and CEO of Rigid Industries.
"The continual innovation of new and ever increasingly better technology is our mission and we reinvent ourselves everyday as we are doing this week with our patent pending Recoil Light Bar whose arc takes our traditional light bar and adds a constant radius making a wider reach of light with incredible distance projected," stated Christiansen.
The 2013 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2009 to 2012. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2009, and have revenue no less than US$ 2 million in 2012. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent.
