Everything Channel to Honor the Fast Growth 100 at the CRN Fast Growth Conference & Awards on October 21 in San Francisco

CRN Magazine to Announce the Fast 50 to Watch List

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced the 2009 CRN Fast Growth 100 Conference & Awards will take place at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, CA on October 21. The CRN Fast Growth Conference is a one-day executive conference that brings together top channel executives with the fastest growing Solution Provider organizations in North America. In addition, CRN Magazine will honor leading-edge solution providers who are setting the agenda in today's channel at the 4th Annual Awards Reception. The awards reception is a one-of-a-kind networking event for channel executives and top performing solution providers to get together in an intimate, face to face setting.

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"The Fast Growth 100 companies are creating new customer demand and growing at phenomenal rates," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director for Everything Channel. "The CRN Fast Growth Conference is a place where partnerships are formed and business moves forward."

Additionally, CRN Magazine will announce the Fast 50 to Watch list, an exclusive list of technology integrators, VARs, resellers and consultants that have experienced above-average sales growth.

Platinum sponsors of the Fast Growth Conference are EMC, IBM, Motorola and RSA, gold sponsors are ADTRAN, Arrow, Dell and Eaton and the breakfast sponsor is Google.

The Fast Growth 100 winners were featured in the August issue of CRN Magazine and on www.channelweb.com. A special report on the Fast 50 to Watch list will be in the October issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.channelweb.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

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    Allison Cohen
    Everything Channel
    (516) 562-7870
    Allison.cohen@ec.ubm.com

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