INDUSTRY | CE Pro 100 Meet the HITMAKERS Industry's chart-topping integrators break 'records' with 13% growth in 2021 to achieve median revenue of $6.56 million. By Jason Knott NO MATTER HOW you slice it, 2021 was sweet music to the ears for the members of the CE Pro 100. The annual list of the largest custom integration companies had " record " breaking growth last year that would make Adele envious. The median member of the CE Pro 100 had revenues of 26 | CE Pro May 2022 $6.56 million, up from $5.7 million in 2020. That's a solid 13% increase driven by the continued demand for smart home technology, yet likely hampered by the continuing supply chain shipping crisis and microchip shortages that rendered equipment hard to get all year. The increase is quite a turnaround from 2020 during which the outset of the pandemic basically shut down most businesses for three months and resulted in a cumulative drop of 2.4% last year. In terms of total revenues, the companies on the 2022 CE Pro list did a whopping $8.3 billion in 2021, up from $7.8 billion in 2020. The CE Pro 100 list itself, now in its 23rd year, is also unique and constantly evolving. For many years, the qualifying revenues were solely based on income derived during the installation process of various subsystems (see sidebar for a partial list of subsystems). Starting two years ago, we began including all their revenue sources as the basis for the list as it refl ects the growing diversity of companies in the commercepro.comhttp://www.cepro.com