FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August, 2010

Media Contact:
Jeff Reusser
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GHI Internet Services Receives 2010 Business Growth Award from the Cascade Capital Corporation

In August 2010, GHI Internet Services, the interactive media, Internet marketing, and SaaS software division to parent company, Griffith Holdings, Inc., proudly announces they have been recognized for the third time as a 2010 Cascade Capital Business Growth Award. Sponsored by Smart Business Magazine and Cascade Capital, the Business Growth Award recognizes local companies who have increased sales by more than 100% for five consecutive years.

"This award was created to recognize the existing and increasingly significant role small companies play towards the continuing economic growth and vitality of a local community", says Frank Griffith, Chairman and Founder of Griffith Holdings, Inc. "As a small business whose mission is committed to helping other small businesses grow, we appreciate this special peer recognition, especially given the tough economic times during these past fews."

Pete Kever, GHI’s President and the first employee to join GHI more than 11 years ago adds, "we appreciate our continued recognition for growth; as a small business we must be creative in how we attempt to grow and thus will continue to creatively expand our marketing reach via the web and through business partners who together add visibility, penetration, and market expansion opportunities for us here in Cleveland and around the country.” As the economy tightens we believe the web and its inexpensive access to markets will continue to aid companies like GHI Internet Services to thrive in volatile markets.”

About Business Growth Award

Cascade Capital Corporation recognizes small businesses, their growth, and contribution to the economic development of communities across Northern Ohio. The Business Growth Awards Program honors small businesses located in Summit, Medina, Portage, Wayne, Ashland and Holmes counties that have prominently increased sales and/or employment over the past five years. The criteria to win a Business Growth Award is:

  • A company's sales must have increased by 100% or $5 million
  • A company's full-time employee total must have increased by 50% or 25 employees

About Griffith Holdings

Griffith Holdings, Inc. (GHI) is a diversified holding and management company comprised of seven privately-held firms serving thousands of clients worldwide since 1993. GHI has staff dispersed across four continents and resells more than 90 products and services through 400 business partners. GHI’s branded companies span industry sectors ranging from high technology, telecommunications, e-commerce and software, to interactive new media agencies, healthcare, real estate, entertainment, and micro-finance.

GHI’s mission is helping companies connect smarter™ to their customers, people, products, and processes through innovative communications and technology solutions. Whether clients use the internet, telephone, and / or traditional marketing services to reach their audiences, GHI's technology and communications solutions Connect their brands, people, products, and processes to their markets. Smarter.

GHI’s companies consist of wholly-owned subsidiaries and managed enterprises:

Subsidiaries:

  1. GHI Internet Services is an interactive media firm specializing in website design, Internet marketing, and SaaS software solutions serving more than 1,000 clients worldwide.
  2. GHI Marketing Services is a senior management sales and marketing advisory firm.
  3. GHI Telecom Services is a telecommunications expense management firm providing voice, data, and IP networking services saving more than $21,000,000 for 4,200 clients in the past 14 years.
  4. GHI Micro Finance Services is an online e-retailer bringing hand-crafted merchandise from remote villages to a world market.
  5. GHI International Services is a technology incubator headquartered in West Africa providing leadership training, capital, and resources to indigenous entrepreneurs in developing nations as they build self- sustaining businesses.
  6. GHI Real Estate Services is a land development and property management firm.
  7. GHI Entertainment is a media company producing music, conducting live concerts, and facilitating outdoor and athletic camps.

Managed Enterprises:

  1. Cleveland, Ohio-based SaaS developer of on-line scheduling, labor cost management, and employee communication software firm serving the long term care and hospital industries.
  2. Kampala, Uganda-based interactive new media agency.
  3. Jos, Nigeria web development firm.
  4. Kharkiv, Ukraine multi-media design firm

Whether clients use the internet, telephone, and/or traditional marketing services to reach their audiences, GHI's technology and communications solutions Connect their brands, people, products, and processes to their markets. Smarter.

For more information call 330.723.3136 or visit our family of web properties:

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