Trade Me trades up on the fast 50

Online auction, dating and trading business Trade Me has come out on top of the Deloitte/unlimited Fast 50 awards index - winning the award as the fastest growing company of 2004. In second place is Endace Group, a supplier of computer network technology, followed by Prolificx, an electronics design and manufacturing company.

Deloitte partner Brett Chambers said a strong message in research for this year's list was that many companies felt they might be constrained from achieving growth goals because of a lack of skilled people.