Answer Midwest Chosen as One of Area�s Top Businesses

Featured in the St. Louis Business Monthly "Top 20 Under 20"

(St. Louis, MO - November 18, 2009) � In the current issue of St. Louis Small Business Monthly, the spotlight was shined on St. Louis� TOP 20 UNDER 20, featuring the top 20 local businesses with 20 or fewer employees. Having built small but mighty teams, the Top 20 continue to push the envelope in their industries. One of the 20 winners is Answer Midwest, based in Alton, Ill. Answer Midwest, Inc. is a 24/7 live operator call handling outsource for the smallest to largest size need. The company provides improved customer service and response, emergency dispatching, order, appointment and reservation scheduling, and generally improving productivity and effective call handling. Answer Midwest can gather, encrypt and transmit data, messages, and any information required as well as serving as a level one help desk. According to Gary Tedrick, President and CEO of answer Midwest, after being in business 63 years and winning ATSI Award of Excellence for Customer Service for the last eight consecutive years, our slogan is �our capabilities are limited only by your imagination.�

In addition to Answer Midwest, this year�s 20 under 20 St. Louis Small Business Monthly winners include: Brand Asset Management Group, Captiva Marketing, Clayton Studios, CLB Interiors, Consolidated Design & Construction, Integrated Payroll Services, J&B Technologies, Kuhlmann Leavitt, Inc., MB Consulting Group, Milhouse & Neal, LLP, Mulligan Technologies, Ngage, Nutriformance Private Wealth Management, Riggs Construction & Design, Thumbs Up Johnnie, Vividsites, Wamhoff Financial Planning and Accounting Services, and Warehouse of Fixtures.

St. Louis Small Business Monthly is St. Louis� locally owned business publication, bringing business tips, strategies and analysis to the presidents, CEOs, owners and top executives of 25,000 businesses in the St. Louis Metropolitan region. SBM, founded in 1988, publishes every month and also provides information via the Internet at www.SBMon.com and through a variety of business-related forums.