PR - Premiere Global in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Program for Georgia

Premiere Global Services, Inc. (NYSE: PGI), a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions, has been named to Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Georgia, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in Georgia by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional services organizations. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from 2002–2006. This year’s Georgia Technology Fast 50 program is presented by Deloitte and sponsored by Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, NASDAQ and Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Boland T. Jones, credits Premiere Global’s focus on providing on-demand communication technologies-based business process improvement solutions for the Company’s revenue growth from 2002-2006. Jones said, "By recognizing and fulfilling the need for companies to enhance relationships with their many constituents, we are re-defining the category of business process improvement. We are thrilled to be recognized as one of Georgia’s fifty fastest growing technology companies and to be part of such an elite community.

Premiere Global’s increase in revenues of 45 percent from 2002 to 2006 resulted in inclusion in the ranking in the Technology Fast 50 for Georgia. To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2002 and $5,000,000 in 2006, be headquartered in Georgia, and be a company that owns proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company’s operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. Using other companies’ technology or intellectual property in a unique way does not qualify.

Companies from the 16 regional Technology Fast 50 programs in the United States and Canada are automatically entered in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks North America’s top 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies. For more information on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 or Technology Fast 500 programs, visit www.fast500.com.

A full 64 percent of Georgia’s Fast 50 companies are publicly held. Of the 50, a total of 26 companies are categorized as technology firms, 9 are in telecommunications, 6 are biotechnology corporations and 9 serve the media and entertainment sector.