Seven Hoosier companies were recognized with the 2010 Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards for advancing occupational safety and health during the Central Indiana Chapter of American Society of Safety Engineers and Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s annual Safety and Health Conference & Expo in Indianapolis yesterday.
The 2010 Governor’s Workplace Safety Awards are a result of a partnership [...]

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The Indiana Subcontractors Association (ISA) named Pepper Construction of Indiana, LLC, and Kettelhut Construction Inc., as its its two “GC of the Year” Award winners at the annual ISA banquet last evening.
Pepper Construction won in the category for general contractors with over $100 million in annual revenue and was recognized for their focus on building [...]

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Diversified Marketing Strategies (DMS) has been named one of Indiana’s Top 50 Women-Owned Businesses by diversitybusiness.com, b2b Web portal for DiversityBusinesss, the largest organization of diversity owned businesses in the United States with more than 48,000 members.
Diversitybusiness.com ranked DMS 17th among businesses owned by Hoosier women.
“Having a diverse group of people who bring fresh [...]

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Manufacturing Technology, Inc., a South Bend-based company that provides friction welding technology and services, was named as Ijndiana’s Small Business of the Year by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce.
A fourth-generation family-owned business, MTI primarily builds machines that carry out the friction welding process (the solid state joining of two parts using frictional heat and applied [...]

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The Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center honored Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Deputy Commissioner Leigh E. Morris with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual E-Day Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards program on October 29. Morris currently serves as INDOT’s Deputy Commissioner for Toll Road Oversight and Chairman of the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority.
“I [...]

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Chicago out. Tokyo also eliminated. The winner: Rio.
Northwest Indiana officials express disappointment.
Chicago Tribune: We’ll be fine.
Bidding for an Olympiad forced Chicago, its leaders and its citizens, to focus on what works and what doesn’t. It made all of us think to the future how this city should capitalize on its assets: the lakefront, the neighborhoods, [...]

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The International Academy of Visual Arts has awarded Diversified Marketing Strategies, Inc., a 2009 Communicator Award of Excellence for Building Indiana News. The bi-monthly magazine was selected out of a pool of more than 7,000 entries made to the 15th Annual Communicator Awards competition.
The Excellence Awards are the highest level of Communicator Awards given out [...]

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The Service Industry Advertising Awards has recognized Building Indiana News with its top prize – the Gold Award – for best external publication at the 6th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA) for 2008. This marks the second time Building Indiana News, a business-to-business publication, has been named a SIAA recipient. It won a Silver [...]

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Building Indiana News was mentioned in a Northwest Indiana Times article today. The article is in “Business Briefs,” and it’s about the APEX Award. (More info about the APEX Award can be found on the Building Indiana News Website.)
Once again, we’re proud to have received this recognition. The next issue of BIN [...]

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First off, I just want to say thanks again to Steve Dalton for the comments and linkage.
Aside from that, I hope everyone’s 4th of July was fun and relaxing.  Everyone in the office split off to be with friends and family for the holiday, but I think we all had a good time.  [...]

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