Inner City Companies Growing in Northeast Ohio

The partners in Advance Northeast Ohio believe that strong core cities are essential to a vibrant economic future. While the challenges facing our region's core cities are well documented, the opportunities for growth and progress are there as well. Five of the nation's 100 fastest inner city companies call Northeast Ohio home, according to a new ranking from BusinessWeek. Three are in Cleveland and two are in Akron. Personally, I'm trying to figure out how Turning Technologies, in downtown Youngstown -- which I visited yesterday -- didn't make the list. The companies that did make the list are:

• No. 69 Talan Products of Cleveland, a metal stamping, extrusion and fabrication business;
• No. 80 WhiteSpace Creative of Akron, a marketing, public relations and interactive communications firm;
• No. 91 Voss Industries of Cleveland, which makes specialty metal products; and
• No. 98 Tenable Protective Services of Cleveland, which provides security and event-control services.

WhiteSpace Creative has done some of the amazing creative work used by Carin Rockind and the folks at Team NEO to promote Northeast Ohio as a destination for global growth companies. See the previous post for how that work is paying off with hundreds of new jobs in the region.

Thanks to CrainsCleveland.com for pointing out this listing.