A company that started in a small shop in Kennewick and now has offices spread across five states is one of Washington state’s fastest growing companies according to one business publication. 

Apollo Inc. was included in Puget Sound Business Journal’s recently released list of the 100 fastest growing companies in the state.  

The list was developed via the publication’s own data collection efforts. Qualifying companies were required to have revenues of at least $500,000 in 2022 and only privately held, for-profit companies with global headquarters in Washington were considered. 

Apollo Inc. was originally founded by Bruce Ratchford as Apollo Mechanical Contractors in 1981. The company employs more than 2,000 people, with annual revenues of over $600 million, according to the company’s LinkedIn page. It has several offices around the state, as well as in Oregon, Nevada, Montana, Colorado and Tennessee. 

Several other companies with a presence in the Tri-Cities also made it onto the Puget Sound Business Journal’s list: 

• Tacoma-based engineering firm AHBL Inc., which has an office in Pasco. 
• Bellevue-based home medical equipment supplier Bellevue Healthcare which maintains a store and offices in Kennewick. 
• Spokane-based builder Lydig Construction which has an office in Kennewick. 
• SeaTac-based engineering firm MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions which has an office in Kennewick. 
• Kirkland-based investment firm Sage Investment Group which has an office in Richland.