Its services include local, long distance, international, residential, and commercial moves, in addition to full-services and mobile storage.

This year’s list measure revenue growth from 2006 through 2009. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by June 30, 2006. Additionally, they hadto be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent — not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies — as of December 31, 2009…The companies of the Inc. 500 represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000.

[NorthStar Moving] CEO Ram Katalan says that his company caters to life in Los Angeles, where celebrities and production studios take advantage of the company’s 107,000-square-foot storage space, as well as services like discreet moving (using decoy trucks to avoid paparazzi), late night moving, and photo-perfect packing, where every item–from sofa to spoon–is replaced exactly where it was before the move.

For 25 years, Inc. has been ranking the 500 fastest-growing private companies in America. This year we’ve gone further. We’ve expanded the list tenfold. to create the first-ever Inc. 5000…In the Inc. 5000, you’ll find the most comprehensive look ever at the most important part of the economy—the entrepreneur part. For one thing the Inc. 5000 catches businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500.