Fast-Growth Companies Maintain Margins, Dodge Higher Interest Rates, According to PricewaterhouseCoopers

   PricewaterhouseCoopers' Trendsetter Barometer interviewed CEOs of
  301 privately held product and service companies identified in the
      media as the fastest growing U.S. businesses over the last 
                            five years.

  The surveyed companies range in size from approximately $5 million
                   to $150 million in revenue/sales.

   Interviewing for the second quarter was completed August 4, 2006.

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Healthy margins have protected many of the nation's fastest-growing private companies from the need for bank financing and the pinch of higher interest rates. But this may be about to change.

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