This was a surprisingly good year amidst the global economic turmoil, for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions in terms of high-growth technology company performance. UK’s Thunderhead. led the pack with 28,558 percent growth rate. Other companies in the top five are Netherlands-based, album creation software company Albumprinter, real-time location software firm Ubisense from the UK, renewable energy technology firm Morphic Technologies, and German, IT-consulting and software company Nextevolution.

The top five winners in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA are listed below. The regional Technology Fast 500 program, initiated in North America in 1997, is in its eighth year in EMEA.

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