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Logos Founder Honored

According to Ernst & Young?s Stephen J. Day in Seattle, ?The Ernst & Young ?Entrepreneur of the Year? award honors entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hard work and perseverance have created and sustained successful, growing business ventures.? With that in mind, the co-founder of Logos Bible Software, Bob Pritchett was recently selected in the category of ?Realizing Business Potential? over nineteen other finalists to receive E &Y?s ?Entrepreneur of the Year? award by an independent panel comprised of local business, academic and community leaders in the Pacific Northwest, based on a variety of factors, including financial growth, risks taken by the individual, the story behind their success, community involvement and unique characteristics that set them apart from their competition.

Pritchett?s Logos Research Systems, Inc., located in Bellingham, Washington, is the leading publisher of high-end, award-winning, multilingual Bible software primarily serving churches and academic markets as well as those sitting in the pews themselves, striving to bring the best and latest in spiritual-religious software innovation to Christians worldwide.

Originally started by Mr. Pritchett and a partner in 1992 as a basement-run operation while working at Microsoft, Logos has since that time successfully digitized nearly 5,000 Bibles and Bible reference works, selling them in special digital library collections to a market that is 80% pastors. Along with a growing customer base in 143 countries, Logos has managed to sustain double-digit sales growth every year since 2002 (with sales of $8.9 million in 2004) helping it to become the largest developer of software for the Christian market as well as a worldwide leader in multilingual electronic publishing. After the announcement Pritchett noted that ?This award is an acknowledgement of the hard work and smart decisions the whole company has participated in together.?