Comprehensive Emergency Management Associates (CEMA) has enjoyed consistent growth since it opened four years ago, with revenues doubling every year.
“Our projections are just as good for 2009,” says Tom Shaver, with CEMA. “We already have revenue equal to this year secured.”
CEMA is a full service emergency management consulting firm that helps prepare businesses for emergency situations. CEMA does 80 percent of its business in Michigan, but also works in Ohio, Minnesota and South Dakota.
Shaver says increased awareness of emergency needs and the booming Homeland Security industry have helped his company grow.
For most of CEMA’s existence, Shaver and his business partner ran the business, hiring roughly 20 subcontractors to help. But, they’ve grown so much in 2008 that they just hired a fifth full-time employee.
The company, which has operated as a home-based business for years, just moved to East Lansing’s Technology Innovation Center. CEMA has three office suites in the center.
“We really like the downtown location,” Shaver says. “The price was really nice and we can stay there for three years. The synergy of being around other young growing technology businesses meant a lot to us.”
Source: Tom Shaver, CEMA
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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