St. Louis, Mo., August 23, 2012-–Fish Window Cleaning Services, Inc. is Missouri’s third fastest growing company in the Inc. 5000 Business Products and Services Category. Based on a 42% growth rate, FISH has moved up 106 places in its overall ranking on the 2012 list.

          This is the third year Fish Window Cleaning® has made the Inc. 5000, which this year ranks the company 43^rd among all privately held companies from the state of Missouri on the list.

          Commenting on this latest honor for FISH, S. Michael Merrick, company CEO, said, “Knowing that there are almost seven million private employers in the U.S., and that we continue to be among the fastest growing companies from this group, is extremely gratifying.  We achieved this honor because of the professionalism of our franchisees and the support and efforts of our headquarters staff. I am extremely proud of our organization.”

Fish Window Cleaning was founded in 1978 by Merrick, and began franchising in 1998.  FISH is the largest window cleaning company in the country with over 230 national locations.  The organization ranked 14^th in the 2012 Franchisee Satisfaction Survey conducted by Franchise Business Review, 68^th on Dun & Bradstreet’s AllBusiness Allstars 2012 Top 100 Franchisesand 119^th on Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2012 Franchise 500.