Vaco banks on city’s logistics strength

Feature story for The Memphis Daily News

Sept. 1, 2010

Vaco, a specialized upper-management and executive staffing and consulting firm based in Nashville with 24 offices around the country, including Memphis, has seen tremendous growth since its founding in 2002.

With revenue at $130 million and inclusion for 2010 on the Inc. 5000 list for the fourth year in a row, Vaco also has been cited as the fastest growing privately held company in the country.

With this kind of track record, there is nowhere to go but up, and that is especially true at Vaco’s Memphis office, which opened in 2004 at 6000 Poplar Ave. in East Memphis.

Although Vaco has focused primarily on technology, accounting and finance in the past, when the time came to expand its services into the field of logistics, Memphis – with its robust infrastructure and impressive roster of transportation and distribution companies – was the obvious choice … (read more)