Daft Media wins Fast 50 Awards

Online media group Daft Media Ltd has won this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards.

The company had received a Rising Star accolade in the awards programme in 2007.

The company, whose property websites include Daft.ie, Property.ie and Rent.ie, achieved an aggregate growth rate of 8453% over the last five years.

The average growth rate of the Fast 50 companies named in this year’s ranking is 789%.

Last year’s winner, Lincor Solutions, a provider of next generation interactive digital media solutions for the delivery of content and communication services to the healthcare sector, got second place with a growth rate of 6802%.

Third place went to Northern Ireland company SLA Mobile.

The technology business solutions company achieved an aggregate growth rate of 4436%.

There are two winners in the Rising Star category, which recognises younger companies with the fastest growth in turnover over the past three years.

AER Limited, an alternative energy company, is the Republic of Ireland’s representative, with Learning Pool Ltd, an e-learning provider for the public sector representing the North.

The Fast 50 programme, now in its tenth year in Ireland, ranks the fastest-growing technology companies in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.