Friday, April 21, 2006

Jones Lang LaSalle


2 Newark firms named fastest growing

Two Newark companies are among the winners of the ICIC-Inc. Magazine Inner City 100 list of the fastest growing urban companies, which will be released today.

Bare Necessities and El Taller Colaborativo of Newark were selected to the Inner City 100 out of 4,500 companies that were nominated.Bare Necessities, No. 10 on the list, had $12 million in sales and 28 employees under Chief Executive Noah Wrubel, whose family has owned a chain of four lingerie boutiques in the New York area for the past 35 years.El Taller Colaborativo, No. 93 on the list, had $10 million in sales and 85 employees under Chief Executive Alex Garcia.

The architectural and engineering company has planned and designed more than 300 projects, including a contract to maintain handicap ramps for the U.S. Postal Service in northern New Jersey.