To: Sam who wrote (2184 ) 3/26/2001 9:32:54 AM From: Jim Oravetz Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2283 ADIC Named as One of America's Fastest Growing Companies by Publishers of Individual Investor Source: Business Wire Publication date: 2001-03-26 REDMOND, Wash.-(BW)-March 26-Advanced Digital Information Corporation today announced that the company has been included in the America's Fastest Growing Companies(TM) Index by the Individual Investor Group, Inc. which publishes Individual Investor magazine and individualinvestor.com. The Index lists the top 500 American companies with market values between $100 million and $2 billion. "The increasing digitization of information is driving companies in virtually every industry to search for ways to store, manage and use their data more intelligently," noted Charles H. Stonecipher, President and Chief Operating Officer of ADIC(R). "ADIC delivers a broad range of intelligent storage solutions that addresses this exploding market opportunity, and our resulting rapid growth is reflected in our inclusion in this important Index. We believe that our combination of storage capacity hardware products, storage management software, and value-add connectivity tools will keep us at the forefront of this expanding market." The America's Fastest Growing Companies(TM) Index, which has been calculated by the American Stock Exchange since early 1998, is described by Individual Investor magazine as capturing "500 companies in the early stages of a strong growth cycle by screening for those with the strongest increases in earnings." The Individual Investor Group has also announced plans for creation of an exchange-traded fund based on the Index. A complete list of companies named to the America's Fastest Growing Companies(TM) Index appears in the April issue of Individual Investor. Other storage companies on the current index include Gadzooks, QLogic, and Veritas Software.