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Service Express Hits the Inc. 5000 List Four Years Running

SEI ranks 29th of Top Computer Hardware Companies

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. Magazine ranked Service Express, Inc.(SEI), a multi-platform data center maintenance company, No. 3210 with 61% growth for the past three years, to its magazine's fourth annual Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country.  

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"For the past ten years, our company has grown an average of 20% annually," said Ron Alvesteffer, SEI President.  "We continue to grow both our current and new service locations by bringing our hardware maintenance expertise and exceptional customer service.  Companies are looking for better options including lower costs and less downtime for the support of their data center equipment."

Service Express has expanded geographically the past four years opening offices in Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.  "And we plan to open offices in Springfield, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee in the next year.  Growth is great, but we still maintain our 98% customer retention rate as we continue to deliver our brand of on-site maintenance to new markets," he notes.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on www.inc.com/5000.

About Service Express, Inc. (SEI)

Service Express specializes in customized on-site data center maintenance for mainframe, midrange and Intel-based servers for IBM, DEC, HP, Sun and Dell, as well as EMC and STK storage.  Additional services include:  data center relocations, software support and hardware sales solutions.  SEI is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and also has offices in with offices in Detroit and Flint, Michigan; Chicago and Lombard, Illinois; Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; and Appleton and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Additional information can be found at seiservice.com.

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SOURCE Service Express, Inc. (SEI)

For further information: Heidi Dykstra of SEI, +1-616-698-2221, hdykstra@seiservice.com