1992 Emily Harrington founds Qualified Resources Inc.

1993 Company incorporates and opens office in Warwick, RI with 2 employees ($22,000 in sales).

1994 Doors open to corporate headquarters in Cranston, Rhode Island.

1998 Company opens second office in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, servicing northern RI and southeastern Massachusetts ($8.0 million in sales).

1999 Inc. magazine names QRI as one of “America’s 500 Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies”.

2000 QRI Founder & Chairperson Emily Harrington was named by the Small Business Administration as the “Entrepreneurial Success of the Year” for Rhode Island, New England and the United States.

2003 QRI expands service offering to include Lean Manufacturing Consulting and Contract Light Assembly services.

2004 QRI partners with Staff Service Group, a Japan-based multinational staffing firm with operations globally. Company opens a branch office in Leominster, Massachusetts.

2009 The Harrington's sell their remaining interest in the partnership and Emily Harrington launches a new company - Qualifed Resources International Inc.

My goal - when I formed Qualified Resources Inc. in 1992 - was to build a company that set the standard in professional staffing services, for southen New England and beyond. My goal today for the new QRI is no different.