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No. 3,291 CMI Atlanta, GA

	Year	2008
	Industry	Business Services
	Founded	1989
	Growth	102.6%
	2004 Revenue	$6.8 million
	2007 Revenue	$13.7 million
	Employees	50

What it does:
Consultant to large corporations. CMI helps companies plot strategy on advertising, pricing, branding, new product development, and other areas.

Why it's growing:
The company believes it has identified four "cornerstones of success": monitoringâ€"listening to customers, and the competition; retentionâ€"identifying vulnerable customers and figuring out how to keep them; acquisitionâ€"getting new customers; and actionsâ€"the things companies do after analyzing the information at hand.

What's noteworthy:
The company champions the idea of applying ethnographic research and cultural anthropology to market research.