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Type: Public
On the web: http://www.loopnet.com
Employees: 305
Employee growth: 14.7%

Feeling out of the loop when it comes to commercial real estate? LoopNet provides information services to the commercial real estate market through its namesake Web site, LoopNet.com, an online marketplace that includes approximately 652,000 property listings. The company offers a free basic membership, as well as a subscription-based premium membership. LoopNet has about 3.2 million registered members and more than 77,000 premium members. The company also offers LoopLink, which helps real estate brokers integrate LoopNet listings into their own Web sites; BizBuySell, an online marketplace for operating businesses that are for sale; and commercial real estate network CityFeet.com.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $86.1M
One year growth: 21.7%
Net income: $18.3M
Income growth: (13.5%)

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Richard J. (Rich) Boyle Jr.
President and COO: Thomas Byrne
SVP Finance and Administration, CFO, and Secretary: Brent Stumme

Competitors:
CoStar Group
First American CoreLogic
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A turn or sharp curve in a cordlike structure.

• capillary l's — minute endothelial tubes that carry blood, as in the papillae of the skin.
• closed l. — a system in which the input to one or more of the subsystems is affected by its own output.
• diuretic l. — loop of Henle diuretic.
• Henle's l. — see henle's loop.
• intestinal l. — in most species the small intestine is arranged in a series of indefinite open loops. In ducks and geese the loops are closed, finite structures, five to eight in number, and are located more or less in fixed positions. The supraduodenal loop is one of them.
• open l. — a system in which an input alters the output, but the output has no effect on the input.