ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 14, 2025--
EDS Service Solutions has been recognized on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, the annual ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, for the third year in a row. EDS ranked No. 3607 overall, No. 154 in the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Alpharetta, Georgia market, No. 362 in the Business Products and Services industry, and No. 173 in Georgia.
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The Inc. 5000 provides a data-driven look at the most successful privately held, independent businesses in the economy’s most dynamic sectors. Many well-known companies first gained national exposure as Inc. 5000 honorees.
“Being recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for the third consecutive year is a powerful testament to our team's unwavering resilience, creativity, and relentless commitment,” said Sonya Locke, CEO of EDS Service Solutions. “This sustained growth and ranking among the nation's fastest-growing companies underscores the immense value we deliver to our client partnerships every day. Our continued growth is a testament to our expertise in providing top-tier staffing solutions services and human capital management across various industries. We are proud to stand alongside so many innovative organizations that are driving economic growth and shaping the future of business.”
On the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, the median revenue growth rate for honorees was 169 percent for the three-year period from 2021 to 2024. Hundreds of top-ranking companies achieved growth rates more than 100 times that median. This level of growth is particularly notable given the economic volatility, rapid innovation, political uncertainty, and other challenges businesses have navigated over the past several years.
About EDS Service Solutions
EDS Service Solutions, a women-led enterprise headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in labor outsourcing and business process optimization. The company serves industries including car rental, automotive, hospitality, aviation, travel, and logistics, operating in the U.S. Top 30 airports with over 150 locations nationwide. EDS combines business process outsourcing, human capital management, recruitment process outsourcing, and staff augmentation into a unified strategy that improves operational efficiency and advances client success. To learn more, visit edsservicesolutions.com.
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EDS Service Solutions Named to the Inc. 5000 List for Third Consecutive Year
PURACE, Colombia (AP) — Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. There he sits and watches the billowing ash column rising from the crater.
Despite a recent alert indicating that an eruption is likely in the coming days or weeks due to increased seismic activity at the volcano and the emission of ash columns reaching up to 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet), he is not afraid.
“I’ve lived on the volcano, I grew up there … so I have no reason to fear it. I’ll keep going there, alert or not. I have to look after my animals,” Quira, 65, told The Associated Press. He is a member of the Purace Indigenous Reserve, a territory belonging to the Coconuco Indigenous people who have traditionally inhabited the volcano’s surroundings.
Still, since the alert issued on Nov. 29, the surrounding community has been on edge. Authorities have sought to prepare for a preventive evacuation of at least 800 people who live on the volcano’s periphery, in scattered homes among the mountains.
The Purace volcano, standing 4,640 meters (more than 15,000 feet) above sea level, is one of Colombia’s active volcanoes, with at least 51 eruptive events since the year 1400. Its most recent significant eruption was recorded in 1977, according to the Colombian Geological Service.
For the Coconuco people, the volcano is sacred and a protective spirit of their territory.
“The volcano is our master; we have no reason to fear it,” said Alfredo Manquillo, deputy governor of the Purace Indigenous Reserve. “That’s why we respect it and perform rituals in its name.”
Rituals include offering the crater corn, sweet plants and a traditional alcoholic drink made from fruit known as guarapo.
For the Indigenous community, the volcano sends them a message when it emits ash, asking for greater care of nature.
“The volcano is saying that we’ve exploited it too much … for about 60 years we took money from beneath it by extracting sulfur, and now with tourism we’re taking money from above it,” he said, referring to a sulfur mine that was closed a few years ago and to ecological hikes to the volcano. “It’s saying: ‘I’m the one in charge, I’m the one with the power.’”
Elders who have witnessed eruptions of the volcano have sought to reassure the younger members of the community who are seeing the volcano active for the first time.
Reinaldo Pizo, 75, was a child when the volcano erupted, hurling rocks. He recalls taking shelter under leafy trees or inside their thatched-roof homes.
His home is located in a risk zone, but he says he would only evacuate if the volcano were to emit poisonous gases.
Purace lacks the infrastructure and logistics needed for a full evacuation, so authorities are working to set up temporary shelters, according to Mayor Humberto Molano Hoyos.
But Manquillo said they also need water storage tanks, food and a solution to protect their livestock and domestic animals, which are vital to the agricultural and ranching community.
“As some of our companions say: ‘If we have to die here, we’ll die here. But we’re not going somewhere else just to die of hunger,’” Pizo said.
A motorcyclist ride on a road backdropped by the Purace volcano, near Purace, Colombia, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
The Purace volcano spews plumes of ash and smoke, near Purace, Colombia, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A girl runs along a road backdropped by the the Purace volcano, near Purace, Colombia, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
The Puzna hill is seen during a sunrise near Purace volcano, as Colombian officials ordered some families to evacuate after the volcano showed high levels of seismic activity in Purace, Colombia, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. . (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
The Purace volcano spews plumes of ash and smoke, near Purace, Colombia, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
