MARLABS INC. among the Entrepreneurial growth leaders on this year's Inc 500 ranking of fastest growing companies.

Edison, NJ - Marlabs Inc., a software services firm, has been named one of America's entrepreneurial growth leaders by Inc magazine.

Edison, NJ - Marlabs Inc., a software services firm, has been named one of America's entrepreneurial growth leaders by Inc magazine. Marlabs ranked 151st on the 2002 Inc 500 list of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The ranking appears in the magazine's special Inc 500 October 15th issue.

Marlabs increase in revenues from 1997 to 2001 resulted in an overall ranking of 151 in the 2002 INC 500. Marlabs CEO, Siby Antony, credits considerable investments in R&D, services that helped customers produce business results and a global development model that ensures considerable cost advantages to the client, with the company's growth from 1997-2002.

In the last year Marlabs Inc. has rolled out several new and innovative solution offerings in such critical areas as Remote DBA services, EDI HIPAA compliance and Microsoft .NET based solutions for managed care organizations and third party administrators. Marlabs Inc. has been providing technology services and solutions to prestigious companies for over 6 years, and today its clients include a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 as well as small to midsize companies such as Loudcloud, American College of Radiology, J P Morgan Chase, John Deere Healthcare, Y&R / Ford Motor Company, Baylor Health Care System to name a few.

"This is the first Inc 500 ranking to reflect the full impact of the recession", said Inc editor John Koten. "Yet these entrepreneurs are managing to confound the naysayers and move ahead despite the obstacles. They're showing that smart strategies can succeed even in the toughest of times."

Started in 1982, the Inc 500 ranks the nation's leading entrepreneurial firms according to sales growth over the previous five years. Former Inc 500 companies that have gone on to become household names include Microsoft, Timberland, Domino's Pizza and Patagonia.

Inc, the premier magazine for growing companies, may be accessed online at www.inc.com. The magazine is owned by Gruner + Jahr, USA, one of the top-ranked magazine publishers in the U.S., reaching one of the largest readerships in America. G+J is majority owned by Bertelsmann AG, the largest privately held and the fifth largest media company overall in the world, with annual revenues at $ 17.86 billion.