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From Inc.com:

What Is an Inner City Company?

The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City defines inner cities as core urban areas with higher unemployment and poverty rates and lower median incomes than surrounding metropolitan statistical areas. Candidates for the 2007 Inner City 100 must:

1. Be independent, for-profit corporations, partnerships, or proprietorships

2. Be headquartered or have more than half of their physical operations in inner cities

3. Have had 10 or more full-time employees in 2005

4. Have a five-year operating history that includes an increase in sales in 2005 over 2004, sales of at least $200,000 in 2001, and at least $1 million in sales in 2005.

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