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MAPEI Offers Saving Alternative

MAPEI Offers Commercial Flooring Remodelers Labor-Saving Alternative

 

Concrete Surface Preparation Gets Easier and Cheaper

 

Deerfield Beach, Florida - When it comes to remodeling commercial floors, surface preparation can be a big, time-consuming problem. MAPEI has come up with a labor-saving alternative in the form of its new series of Planiprep™ surface preparation products that installers can use themselves with minimum equipment requirements.

 

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Professional Flooring Supply Wins Texas Family Business Of The Year

WACO, Texas - Baylor University's Institute for Family Business will be honoring the 2011 Texas Family Business of the Year award winners and finalists at an awards banquet to be held on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at Baylor University's Bill Daniel Student Center.

The Texas Family Business of the Year awards program recognizes outstanding firms whose families demonstrate a commitment to each other and to business continuity, and who are responsive to the needs of their employees, communities and industries.

"Starting, owning and operating a family business is the foundation of the American Dream," said J. David Allen, director of the John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship at Baylor's Hankamer School of Business.  "It is our privilege to honor the dedicated, hard-working risk-takers in the state of Texas who contribute so much to our economic and social well-being."

This year's winners are:

• Small Family Business of the Year - Jacoby and Jacoby, Inc. - Melvin
• Medium Family Business of the Year - Professional Flooring Supply - Haltom City
• Large Family Business of the Year - Bruner Automotive Family - Stephenville
• Family Values Award - R.W. Owens & Son Funeral Home, Inc. - Wolfe City
• Well-Managed Award - Freeman - Dallas
• Community Commitment Award - Cooper Aerobics Center - Dallas
• Fastest Growing Award - Dikita Enterprises, Inc. - Dallas
• Founders Award - Renfro Foods, Inc. - Fort Worth
• Heritage Award - Bird-Kultgen, Inc. - Waco

Finalists in the competition are: Aderhold Funeral Home, Inc., West; All-Star Martial Arts, Cypress; Gold Metal Recyclers, Ltd., Dallas; Insurance Network of Texas, Giddings; Leigh Oliver's, Tyler; Mazanec Construction Co., Inc., Waco; Ranch at The Rim, San Antonio; Riverside Tire Center, Sealy; Snyder's Recycled Auto and Truck Parts, Holland; Twin City Driver Education School, Richmond.

Through the Texas Family Business of the Year program and other activities, the Institute for Family Business fulfills its mission to provide a forum for the development and dissemination of information relevant to the health and continuity of family businesses.  Other educational and planning programs available to family business owners through the Institute include special interest seminars and entrepreneurship training classes.