R & D Industries, Inc. (RDI)
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About
R & D Industries, Inc. (RDI) is a 39-year old Iowa corporation and winner of the 2010 Iowa Small Business Excellence Award. RDI was listed in both 2014 and 2015 Inc Magazine’s Inc-5000 as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the US.
In 2019 and 2022, RDI was recognized in the Pioneer 250 for managed service excellence as one of the Top 500 MSPs in the US by CRN®. CRN’s annual MSP 500 list identifies the leading service providers in North America whose forward-thinking approaches to managed services are changing the landscape of the IT channel.
In 2021, Channel Futures™ announced that RDI ranked #135 on the MSP 501 list, and RDI ranked again in 2022 at #155. And 2023, ranked #33. The MSP 501 list is the IT channel's most prestigious global ranking of managed service providers, technology providers, and channel partners.
RDI has four primary corporate divisions:
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