Worcester, Mass., —November 01, 2004—bulbs.com, considered among the fastest growing lighting distributors in the United States, was recently recognized by the Worcester Business Journal as a Central Massachusetts Top Growth Company in their 2004 survey.

In considering the Top Growth Companies the Worcester Business Journal ranks each company against a wide range of performance criteria including revenue growth, employment growth, profitability as well as a number of subjective measures that include net assets or stockholder equity and growth philosophy.

"We are very pleased to be recognized among this group of outstanding companies", said bulbs.com CEO, Steve Rothschild. We entered the year with the goal of sustained growth, with a focus on adding more clients and employees and have managed to exceed many of our goals. September was a record-breaking month for the company on several fronts. In addition to $500,000 in sales, a new record for highest-volume month, it also broke the records for highest-volume day and highest-volume weekend. Monthly, we have been averaging 700 new customers and retaining about 76 percent of them as repeats. In July, the company doubled its call-center staff and opened two new warehouses, one in Ohio in May and the other in California in July."

Moving into 2005, Rothschild predicts "incredible growth" starting with the addition of new staff. By mid-2005, he expects to again double the call-center staff. This will in turn prompt the hiring of additional support staff.

About bulbs.com
bulbs.com, headquartered in Worcester, Mass. is a leading online light bulb supplier. Launched in August 1999, bulbs.com recently celebrated its five-year anniversary with record revenues adding to a growing list of over 21,000 commercial customers with over 50,000 locations in the hospitality, retail, property-management, healthcare, manufacturing and municipal sectors. The company is located at 40 Jackson Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01608, and can be reached by telephone at 508-363-2800 or on the Web at www.bulbs.com.