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Article: Fortune Magazine Rates Labor Ready Seventh Fastest Growing Company in America.

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August 18, 1999
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TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Labor Ready, Inc. (NYSE: LRW), the nation's leading provider of temporary manual labor, was recently rated the seventh fastest growing company in Fortune magazine's Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in America.

Labor Ready operates 687 offices in 46 states, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom and plans to open an additional 300 new offices in the year 2000.

Chairman and CEO Glenn Welstad said, "It is a great honor to be a part of this list of high growth companies and we are even more proud of the fact that we are number seven. Labor Ready has a tremendous amount of growth to go and we have the experience ...

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