PROS Again Ranked by Forbes as One of Americas 200 Best Small Companies

Thu Oct 22, 11:11 AM

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the second year in a row, PROS (NYSE: PRO) has been named one of “America’s 200 Best Small Companies” in a Forbes Special Report. PROS, the world leader in enterprise pricing software, ranked 42nd overall and 5th by return on equity, a key measure of financial and business success.

Rankings are based on earnings growth, sales growth and return on equity over the past 12 months and over five years.

“As 71 companies fell off the list from last year, we are honored to be named to this prestigious list once again,” said Bert Winemiller, PROS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “Our continued strength is a testament to our talented staff of more than 350 employees and their hard work and dedication to helping our customers directly improve their bottom line through science-based price optimization software.”

For more than two decades, the largest and most successful companies, including many listed on the Forbes Global 2000, have turned to PROS to solve complex business-to-business pricing problems. PROS' high-performance pricing optimization software products help identify opportunities for margin improvement, optimize pricing decision-making and improve business processes and financial performance for companies in a variety of industries around the world.

About PROS

PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a leading provider of pricing and margin optimization software products, specializing in price analytics, price execution and price optimization. By using our software products, our customers gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify detrimental pricing practices, optimize their pricing decision-making and improve their business processes and financial performance. PROS' software products incorporate advanced pricing science, which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. PROS' high performance software architecture supports real-time high volume transaction processing and allows PROS to handle the processing and database requirements of the most sophisticated and largest customers, including customers with hundreds of simultaneous users and sub-second electronic transactions. PROS provides professional services to configure our software products to meet the specific pricing needs of each customer. PROS has implemented over 200 solutions across a range of industries in more than 40 countries.

Founded in 1985, PROS is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Today, PROS has over 350 employees, more than 100 with advanced degrees and 25 with Ph.D.s.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the functionality of the PROS products and their ability to manage and forecast across an enterprise. The forward-looking statement contained in this press release are based upon PROS historical performance and its current plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation that such plans, estimates or expectations will be achieved. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include PROS ability to develop new products and product enhancements with the required functionality desired and PROS ability to implement and support successfully its products to the expectations of its customers. Additional information relating to the uncertainty affecting the PROS business is contained in PROS filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements represent PROS expectations as of the date of this press release. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and PROS disclaims any obligations to update or alter these forward-looking statements in the future, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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