{"id":864,"date":"2015-08-20T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=864"},"modified":"2015-08-26T17:24:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T22:24:47","slug":"inc-names-big-ass-fans-among-fastest-growing-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/inc-names-big-ass-fans-among-fastest-growing-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Inc. Names Big Ass Fans Among Fastest Growing Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big-Ass-Fans-300x97.png\" alt=\"Big Ass Fans\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big-Ass-Fans-300x97.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big-Ass-Fans-200x65.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big-Ass-Fans.png 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Big Ass Fans<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEXINGTON, KY<\/strong> &#8211; Inc. magazine has named Big Ass Fans to its Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States for the ninth consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>The Inc. 5000 ranks companies based on their three-year growth rates. Big Ass Fans has increased revenues by 154 percent and hired more than 420 employees. The company employs more than 700 and expects $225 million in sales in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the national ranking, Big Ass Fans was the fastest-growing company in Lexington and the fastest-growing manufacturer in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of the company is due in large part to Founder and Chief Big Ass Carey Smith\u2019s no-nonsense approach, which is often the focus of his weekly Inc. articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEXINGTON, KY<\/strong> &#8211; Inc. magazine has named Big Ass Fans to its Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States for the ninth consecutive year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}