财富增长最快的公司之全明星

Coinstar公司

2012年排名： 15

连续上榜时间：3年

    主要得益于Redbox影片租赁业务， 这家总部位于华盛顿州贝尔维尤的DVD专业租赁公司在过去的3年中持续上榜。2010年，它排名第61位，现已稳步攀升至2012年的第15位。

    在线影碟租赁公司Netflix的表现下滑让Coinstar公司获益匪浅。2011年7月，Netflix将流媒体播放和DVD价格从9.99美元提高至15.99美元后，几十万美国用户弃Netflix而去。但是就在Coinstar受益于这些用户的到来时，Coinstar也将标准DVD的一晚租赁费用从1美元提到至了1.20美元。

    尽管收费提高，公司的目标仍然是继续增长。它计划扩展租赁业务，并与威瑞森通讯公司（Verizon Communications Inc.）建立一个合资公司，提供流媒体视频。该公司还计划涉足咖啡业务，已经宣布与星巴克成立合资公司在美国自动售货机上销售品牌咖啡Seattle's Best Coffee。

Coinstar

2012 Fastest-Growing rank: 15

Years on list: 3

    Benefitting largely from its Redbox movie-rental kiosks, the Bellevue, WA-based DVD specialist has held steady onto Fortune's list for the past three years. It ranked no. 61 in 2010 and has steadily risen to no. 15 in 2012.

    The company has gained from hard times at Netflix, where hundreds of thousands of U.S. subscribers dropped the service after the company in July 2011 raised prices for both streaming and DVDs to $15.99 from $9.99. But just as Coinstar was gaining from such defections, the company raised the price of a nightly rental cost for standard DVDs to $1.20 from $1.

    Despite higher costs, the company is aiming to grow. It plans to expand its kiosk business and develop a joint venture to offer video streaming with Verizon Communications Inc. And it also plans to enter the coffee business, having announced a joint venture with Starbucks to sell Seattle's Best Coffee in U.S. vending machines.