IT’S BEEN FOUR years in the making and grown from five employees to 45 – and now Journal Media Ltd has been recognised for its achievements.

The company, which publishes TheJournal.ie, TheScore.ie, DailyEdge and BusinessETC, has been given a Rising Star award at the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for its growth in the past three years.

Journal Media celebrated its fourth birthday last month, and announced that it would be creating 35 new jobs over the next three years. The new roles will be mainly for journalists, with a focus on sport and business coverage. The company’s titles attracts 370,000 daily readers and has 4 million unique visitors every month.

Antrim-based CM Direct also won a Rising Star award – it specialises in the marketing and distribution of consumer goods, and was founded just five years ago by young entrepreneur Chris Martin.

The Fast 50 awards recognise success in public or private companies whose parent company is in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, and which produces technology, or manufactures tech-related products, or uses tech intensively in its business to serve customers (much as Journal Media does), or devotes a high portion of its effort to research and development of technology.

The top-rated company in the Fast 50 (which is for companies longer-established than Journal Media’s four years) was Cork-founded Inhance Technology, a company that creates security features for smartphones and tablets – it experienced over 1,000% growth in revenue over the past four years.

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The Fast 50 list is here:

1. Inhance Technology
2. ding*
3. Impedans Ltd
4. Tickets.ie
5. Slainte Healthcare
6. Instil Software
7. Sixteen South Ltd
8. Voxpro Ltd
9. Spearline Labs Limited
10. ITQuotes
11. AspiraCon Ltd
12. Compliance & Risks Ltd
13. Cartrawler
14. Path XL
15. IIS Ltd
16. Rehabstudio Ltd
17. Emydex Technology Ltd
18. H2 Compliance
19. Seopa
20. Medserv
21. Novosco
22. Espion Limited
23. Leaf Consultancy Limited
24. First Derivatives plc
25. Viatel
26. Action Point Technology Limited
27. Export Technologies Ltd
28. Trilogy Technologies
29. TERMINALFOUR
30. Excelsys Technologies Limited
31. Exigent Networks
32. Nostra
33. Advanced Manufacturing Control Systems Limited
34. Openet
35. Creme Global
36. Monex Financial Services Ltd
37. Learning Pool Ltd
38. Savvy
39. Integrity Solutions
40. Welltel
41. HiberniaEvros Technology Group
42. Catalyst 2
43. Topfloor
44. Blueface
45. Camara Education
46. Rockall Technologies
47. Etain
48. Data Solutions Limited
49. Team Solutionz Ltd
50. Openmind Networks

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