inner city 100

From custom glass artisans to pet relocation specialists to beverage flavor generators, the fastest-growing companies in America's urban core are certainly an eclectic bunch. Meet the top 100, as ranked by the <a href="http://www.icic.org/">Initiative for a Competitive Inner City</a>.

Oakland-based Premier Organics was founded in 2002 by Santiago Cuenca-Romero. Cuenca- Romero was enthralled by peanut butter when he came to the U.S. from Spain and realized that he could apply his previous background in meat grinding to creating nut butters, such as those made from almonds or cashews.

Premier Organics

Known for its iconic square pizza, Joe Squared was founded by Joe Edwarsen and his mother Kathy, who is affectionately referred to at the restaurant as "Mama Joe." Joe Squared has been pivotal in providing residents with a local convening place for art, music, and food.

Joe Squared

Detroit-based PTI Quality Containment Solutions provides supply chain services to auto companies. That includes warehousing, logistics, and packaging.

PTI Quality Containment Solutions

Rodriguez Consulting offers engineering services for large infrastructure projects. The company currently procures over 60% of its goods and services from the Philadelphia area.

Rodriguez Consulting

Net Health offers software to health care providers, serving over 3,000 medical facilities nationwide.

Net Health

With locations in both Chicago and New York City, Solstice provides mobile strategy and application development for clients like Redbox, Discover, Sprint, Kraft, and John Deere.

Solstice Mobile

Showcase Realty offers a variety of real estate services, including luxury home sale, relocation services, and property management. Showcase uses a different model than the typical real estate company, which is made up of contract workers. Instead, the company is made up of employees with specialized skills.

Showcase Realty

David Lee and his ex-partner used to design and make their own dancewear for themselves. The creative and fashionable designs eventually caught the interest of other dancers. Lee decided to turn his dancewear line into a company. New York City-based KD Dids produces knitwear such as sweaters and leg warmers.

KD Dids

Former AT&amp;T executive Anthony Onyewuchi founded Compass Solutions in 1998 with the goal of using technology to streamline company operations.

Compass Solutions

Concept Technology offers outsourced IT services to small- and medium-size businesses.

Concept Technology

The Top 10

From custom glass artisans to pet relocation specialists to beverage flavor generators, the fastest-growing companies located in America's urban core are certainly an eclectic bunch. Meet the top 100, as ranked by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.

Inner City 100

The Top 10