Companies on the Inc. Regionals: Southeast list had a median growth rate of 89 percent.
FLOWOOD, Miss, Mar. 31, 2026 – Inc., the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future, today revealed that The Business Growers has been ranked No. 97 on its sixth annual Inc. Regionals: Southeast list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the Southeast. The region includes South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
An extension of the national Inc. 5000 list, the Regionals list offers a data-driven look at the independent small businesses driving growth across the Southeast economy. Companies on this year’s list demonstrate exceptional revenue expansion, resilience, and job creation during a challenging economic period.
“This recognition belongs to every client who chose us and to every team member who showed up. We are the only tech-focused marketing agency in Mississippi. We’ve grown without outside funding and are serving a very specific vertical in a unique way. Being selected as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Southeast is confirmation that what we are building here is needed and has grown beyond what we imagined it could,” said Laura Johns, founder and CEO of The Business Growers.
Between 2022 and 2024, these 182 private companies had a median growth rate of 89 percent; by 2024, they’d also added 12,079 jobs and $3.4 billion to the region’s economy.
Complete results of the Inc. Regionals: Southeast, including company profiles and an interactive database sortable by industry and metro area, will be available beginning March 31 at: https://www.inc.com/regionals/southeast.
“The honorees on this year’s Inc. Regionals list achieved exceptional growth at a time when the odds were against them. Amid inflation, supply chain disruptions, and ongoing economic uncertainty, they didn’t just persevere – they innovated, adapted, and thrived. Their resilience made them standouts in their industries and true growth engines in their regions,” said Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc.
The Business Growers is an international, Stevie® Award-winning growth firm serving managed service providers (MSPs), IT service firms, and telecom partners. With more than 60 years of combined leadership experience across telecommunications and MSP operations, the company delivers turnkey marketing systems tailored to the unique growth requirements of technology service providers.
Through its proprietary KNOW, GROW, SCALE™ framework, The Business Growers empowers technology providers with a multi-channel marketing engine designed to build authority, generate demand, and strengthen pipeline consistency. For more information about The Business Growers, visit www.thebusinessgrowers.com.
More about Inc. and the Inc. Regionals Methodology
The Inc. Regionals lists are ranked according to percentage revenue growth over two years. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2022. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2024. (Since then, a number of companies on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2022 is $100,000; the minimum for 2024 is $1 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons.
About Inc.
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