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Chamber Business of the Year Award
Winner: Rogers, Gunter, Vaughn Insurance, Inc.
Health & Wellness Business of the Year Award
Company’s mission, products and services must focus on the aspect of health and wellness. Health can be defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a more successful existence.
Winner: Premier Health & Fitness Center
Manufacturing Business of the Year Award
Sponsored By: Residential Elevators
Any industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labor or machines and that is usually carried out systematically with a division of labor. In a more limited sense, manufacturing is the fabrication or assembly of components into finished products on a fairly large scale. Among the most important manufacturing industries are those that produce aircraft, automobiles, chemicals, clothing, computers, consumer electronics, electrical equipment, furniture, heavy machinery, refined petroleum products, ships, steel, and tools.
Winner: Syn-Tech Systems, Inc.
Non Profit/Association of the Year Award
Sponsored By: Thomas Howell Ferguson, P.A.
A non-profit organization is a group organized for purposes other than generating profit and in which no part of the organization’s income is distributed to its members, directors, or officers. Non-profit organizations must be designated as nonprofit when created and may only pursue purposes permitted by statutes for non-profit organizations. Non-profit organizations include churches, public schools, public charities, public clinics and hospitals, political organizations, legal aid societies, volunteer services organizations, labor unions, professional associations, research institutes, museums, and some governmental agencies.
Winner: Goodwill Industries of the Big Bend, Inc.
Service Industry Business of the Year Award
The service industry represents companies that provide services rather than a goods. Businesses including banking, communications, wholesale and retail trade, all professional services such as engineering and medicine, all consumer services, and all government services.
Winner: Rogers, Gunter, Vaughn Insurance, Inc.
Start Up Business of the Year Award
A company that is in the first stage of its operations and that has not been in business for more than 24 months.
Winner: Marlynn Consulting Group, LLC
Technology Business of the Year Award
Sponsored By: North Highland
Company must have demonstrated ability in adopting and utilizing technology to directly increase productivity, efficiency, revenue and/or profits. This sector contains businesses revolving around the manufacturing of electronics, creation of software, computers or products and services relating to information technology.
Winner: Electronet Broadband Communications




