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 eNEWS                                                Nov.-Dec. 2014
In This Issue
Newly Recertified Companies
Our Social Media Links
SBA Awards Call for Nominations
Success Stories: Sole Source Contracting
Success Stories - Ree Wysong
Newly Certified Companies

Newly Recertified Companies

10/22/2014 - 12/15/2014  

 

WBE Certified

 

4444 International, Inc. dba Coverall Central Florida
A Team Realty, Inc.
Adam Financial Associates, Inc.
Administrative Controls Management, Inc.
All Island Landscape, Inc.
All Services Storage & Transport, L.L.C.
ALOM Technologies Corporation
Aptonet, Inc.
Arbitrage Compliance Specialists, Inc.
Arbitre Consulting, Inc.
Asia-Link, Inc.
Atlas Signs And Plaques, L.L.C.
AutoEd, Inc. dba automatik
Automated Direct Mail, Inc.
B Jordan Painting & Contracting, L.L.C.
Bella Trucking, Inc.
Bibby Paper & Consulting, L.L.C.
Blue Siren, Inc.
C. Hayne Herndon & Co., Inc.
Cadence Keen Innovations, Inc.
Cadre Computer Resources Co.
Cake Top Publishing, Inc.
Caleza, L.L.C.
Cardozo Engineering, Inc.
CB Bovenkamp, Inc.
Central Fence Co., Inc.
Claridge Products & Equipment, Inc.
Communitronics Corporation
Competitive Edge Partners & Consulting, L.L.C.
Complete Retail Services, LLC
Contract Cleaners Supply, Inc.
Copp Media Services, Inc.
Coudreaut & Associates, Ltd. dba Distinct Meeting Solutions
Creating Technology Solutions, L.L.C.
Creative Research Management
Crescent Government Services dba Crescent Technology Solutions
Cynthia Ruby And Associates, Inc.
D.R.B. Electric, Inc.
Dalton Commercial Cleaning Corp.
DCO International, Inc.
DH Security Solutions, Inc.
DR Cabs, LLC
EAM Ventures, Inc. dba Express Employment Professionals
Earth Solutions, Inc.
EM Design, Inc.
e-Media Plus, Inc.
Environs, Inc.
ET&T Distributors, Inc.
Exact Data, L.L.C.
Express Technology, Inc.
Financial Asset Services, Inc.
Foley Equipment Company
Foley Industries, Inc.
Foley Rebuild Center, L.L.C.
Foley Supply, L.L.C.
Frieda's Inc.
Gateway Logistics, Inc. dba TransgroupWorldwide Logistics
Go En Greene, Inc.
Goodman Dean, Inc.
Great River Office Products, Inc.
Great Western Hotels Corporation
Grignard Company, L.L.C.
HC&C Communications, Inc.
House of Batteries
Hullin, L.L.C.
InfoMart, Inc.
IQ Telecom, LLC
Iron Mountain Specialized, Inc.
J.M. Wechter & Associates, Inc.
Jaci Carroll Staffing Services, Inc.
Jim Beck Construction, Inc.
Jim James Enterprises, Inc.
JMS Transportation Co., Inc.
KSW Consulting Services, L.L.C. dba Evening Janitorial
LCK, L.L.C.
Lentz Appraisal & Consulting, L.L.C.
Lionfish, L.L.C.
LMC Personnel, Inc. dba Express Employment Professionals
M & M Manufacturing, Inc.
Market Connections, Inc.
Master Mechanical Insulation, Inc.
Maverick Direct, Inc.
MCC Contracting, Inc.
Method, Inc.
Metis Construction Services, L.L.C.
Metro Insulation Corp.
MH Consulting, L.L.C.
Michigan Office Design, Inc.
Michlin Metals, Inc.
Mid-Michigan Mechanical Insulation, Inc.
Munson Business Interiors, Inc.
Nationwide Security & Building Services, Inc.
netPolarity, Inc.
North American On-Site, Inc.
Nouveau Presentation, LLC
Ohio Valley Excavating, L.L.C.
Ologie, LLC
PACE Staffing Network, Inc.
Pacific Industrial Construction, Inc.
Phillips Supply Company
Pinnacle Search Partners, L.L.C.
Precision Electrical Systems, Inc.
Prestige Stucco, Inc.
Printflex Graphics, Inc.
Professional Maintenance of Indiana, Inc.
Progressive Industries, Inc.
Pro-Pak Products, Ltd.
Protech Solutions, Inc.
R & R Strategies, Inc.
Reagan Marketing & Design, Inc.
Reasbeck Construction, Inc.
Resourceful HR, LLC
RHM Technology, Inc.
RightWriters, Inc.
Roy Larry Schlein & Associates, Inc.
S & S Excavating, Inc.
Secure Data Sanitization, L.L.C.
Silver Threads, Inc.
Singleton Construction, L.L.C.
SoftThink Solutions, Inc.
Solid Light, Inc.
South Fork Holdings
T&K Logistics, Inc.
TechR2, LLC
Teknon Government Services Corporation dba Teknon Electrical Services
Testing Engineering & Consultants, Inc.
TGE Resources, Inc.
The Whole Herb Company
Thornwell, Inc.
Timber Products of Iron Mountain, Inc.
TJM Electronic Associates, Inc.
Total Installation Management Specialists, Inc. dba Millicare
Total Printing Services, L.L.C.
Toups Services, L.L.C. dba Blue Sky IT Partners
TradeStone Software, Inc.
Travel Quest of Monticello, L.L.C.
Tri-Shell Enterprises, L.L.C.
Viresco Environmental, L.L.C.
VisionCor, Inc.
Vulcana, LLC
W5 Design, L.L.C.
Waddell Acquisition, Inc. dba Waddell Painting
WELSCO, Inc.
WestCo Trucking, L.L.C.
Western Communications Corp. dba Western Creative, Inc. and Jekyll & Hyde Advertising & Marketing
Word Processing Supplies, Inc. dba WPS Business Products
Working Hands, Inc.
Wright Machine & Tool Co., Inc.

 

WOSB/EDWOSB Certified

 

Applied Biological Consulting, L.L.C.

Caleza, L.L.C.

Copp Media Services, Inc.

DH Security Solutions, Inc.

ET&T Distributors, Inc.

Express Technology, Inc.

Fedarcyk Consulting, L.L.C.

Grignard Company, L.L.C.

Iron Mountain Specialized, Inc.

Scitechedit International, L.L.C.

SoftThink Solutions, Inc.

Spectrum Medical, Inc.

TechR2, L

The Megan Davis Consulting Group, Inc.LC

The Tradesmen Group, Inc.

Triple R Paving, Inc.

Viresco Environmental, L.L.C.

 

 
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SBA Awards Call for Nominations

Are you a small business owner with an amazing success story to tell? If so, submit your nomination today for the 2015 National Small Business Week Awards. This is a great way to get local and national visibility for you and your company. There are multiple categories, so check it out:

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Hello everyone,

Our big news this month is announcing our 2015 Decades of Excellence III conference site and date:
October 5-7, 2015, at the Wyndham Grand Jupiter in Jupiter, FL. This is a brand new property in the Palm Beaches area, and I know all attendees will be delighted with it. Mark the date on your new 2015 calendars, and of course you'll be hearing a lot more about it in the coming months.

2015 will be a banner year for NWBOC as we celebrate our 20th anniversary!  

As part of our anniversary celebration, we have an exciting new development that will be announced in first quarter 2015, so be on the lookout for that.

We urge you to take a deep breath, relax and enjoy this holiday time with family and friends.  On behalf of our Board of Directors and staff, we wish each of you a happy holiday season and a spectacular business year ahead!.

Sincerely,
Janet Harris-Lange, President
National Women Business Owners Corporation
Phot o of White House meeting
Janet Harris-Lange representing NWBOC at the White House
Success Stories: Sole Source Contracting for WOSB Companies

NWBOC is an organizational partner with Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP). Below is an excerpt explaining the recent BIG LEGISLATIVE VICTORY for women-owned firms:

One week ago, the final text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was released. Included was the authority for sole source contracts in the WOSB Procurement Program. This change will help ensure that the federal government achieves its 5% goal of contracting with women-owned firms.

The original law only permitted contracts to be set-aside only if two or more women owned companies responded to the RFP. Meanwhile, every other small business procurement program allowed contracts up to $4 million (or $6.5 million in the case of manufacturing) to be directly awarded to one firm.  That is a critical tool used by the federal government to award contracts to minorities, veterans and HUBZone firms to access the federal market. Now the SBA's WOSB program has parity, and it will make a big difference for women business owners.

This could not have happened without your support. This coalition of more than a dozen organizations made a clear statement that the small business and women's business communities stand behind fairness in the federal market.

Our allies, including friends old and new in Congress and at the SBA made this a reality. But the core of our work came from organizations. Our advocacy team in Washington worked to draft the legislation and our coalition ensured that we had the ground effort to back it up. Over the past months hundreds of supporters have called, written or spoken to their legislators on the issue.Every one of you had a part in this victory.
Success Stories: Ree Wysong
Meet Jean Ree Wysong of GGI Worldwide, Inc. in Lake St. Louis, MO

Being a ground breaker. . . defines how Ree Wysong started her business, and how she has led it through years of economic and industry fluctuations of good times and bad.

Back in the 1980s, 'branded merchandise' meant printing a logo on a pen, a t-shirt, or a cup. However, Ms. Wysong envisioned broadening the concept dramatically to include every item a golfer needs, uses or touches. Employed as a CFO with a large golf retailer, she took her idea to the company owner in the form of a proposal to establish logoed merchandise as a separate partnership. Ms. Wysong saw that major corporations State Farm, Anheuser-Busch, and McDonnell Douglas were a huge, favorable target market. In the end, her boss was still unwilling to partner with her. "It was the best outcome that could have happened, because it allowed me to start my company immediately," she says.

Because Ms. Wysong is a rare combination of possessing both sales skills and financial expertise, she knew the biggest challenge at first would be to establish credit with suppliers. The first call she made was to her contact at Titleist, the biggest brand in golf. She said that she was starting her own company, and asked for a line of credit. "They gave me $150,000 line of credit before I walked out the door. I asked why they did that, and they said, 'Since we know you've handled someone else's money as well as you did, we trust you to handle your own money as well!'" That gave her the confidence to launch, lined up with the largest suppliers in golf.

GGI Worldwide, Inc. received its WBE certification from NWBOC in 1998. "I had a big pharmaceutical client who asked me to get certified as a woman-owned company, so I did," Ms. Wysong says. "It's also especially important to the big construction companies, and the products I provide can be part of their WBE spend." Having certification helped her to secure the business long-term, and is an added benefit for corporate clients.

The company began with logoed golf products, and over the years expanded to providing virtually any merchandise from shot glasses to snowboards, to deep sea fishing equipment. The corporations would typically provide each of their salespeople a budget with which they can purchase logoed items to give away as promotions to current and potential customers. In that scenario, the orders came in like clockwork, but providing the high-level customer service GGI is known for tended to require all hands on deck all the time. "The money is good, but you do run the risk of relying more and more on your largest client, so when something happens to them it is very tough for the company to survive," Ms. Wysong relates.

On two separate occasions, GGI Worldwide had to survive the unexpected and sudden loss of its largest client. One huge client stopped ordering immediately upon a directive issued from the AMA for big pharma to cease providing freebies to doctors. Another big corporate client was sold to an international buyer, which set up insurmountable dynamics GGI could not change.

"That was a perfect storm, in 2008. I lost the large client, the economy was also suddenly in free-fall, and existing customers had no budget," Ms. Wysong recalls. "We went through cash reserves; I didn't take a paycheck for a long time. From there, it was a slow, step-by-step build up again." She doggedly called on former customers and kept in touch for literally several years before they gradually started ordering again.

During this time she did negotiate with top brands for exclusivity in selling branded merchandise for awards, gifts, and incentive purposes. Now, after 4 years of development, she has launched Luxury Brands, uniquely offering Jimmy Choo, Under Armour, Gucci and Kate Spade merchandise. She has hired salespeople again, and has more than survived - Ms. Wysong is providing jobs and economic growth for the larger community.

 
Newly Certified Companies

10/22/2014 - 12/15/2014

WBE Certified:

Accurate Air Balance Co., LLC,
Annette Bratton, President, Birmingham, AL

Among Friends, LLC,
Lizann Anderson, President, Ann Arbor, MI

AT3 Professional Staffing Soluitons, Inc.,
Tonya Brock, President, West Chester, OH

Bartwood Construction, Inc.,
Lori Young, President, Fountain Valley, CA

BB&G Enterprises, LLC,
Tena Rebecca DeGeorgis, Canton, GA

Big Lake Hardware & Specialties, LLC,
Marilyn Ladner, Lake Charles, LA

Cedars Electro-Mechanical, Inc.,
Debra Chalhoub, President, Lake Worth, FL

Change Step Consulting, LLC,
Holly Caldwell, Columbus, OH

Clay Creative Group, Ltd.,
Jessica Clay, President, Lewis Center, OH

Commercial Flooring Solutions, Inc.,
Elizabeth Crippen, CEO, Charlotte, NC

Commercial Janitorial Services, LLC,
Marilyn Jones, Marion, IL

Contractors Cargo Company,
Carla Ann Wheeler, CEO, Compton, CA

Coury Science and Engineering, PLLC,
Charity Coury, Ph.D., Hampstead, NC

DSD Laboratories, Inc.,
Andrea Guerreri, CEO, Sudbury, MA

Ecological Enery Systems, LLC,
Marti Morenings, CEO, Bristol, TN

HER Concepts, LLC,
April Cleek, CEO, Villa Rica, GA

Elite Lighting Company, Inc.,
Connie Siegal, President, Mullins, SC

Excal Industries, LLC,
Susan Buffa, Chesterfield, MI

Fast Forward Collaboration, Inc.,
Ellen Saltsman, CEO, Fallston, MD

5 Square Research, Inc.,
Joan Mancuso, President, South Pasadena, FL

H.S.M. Packaging Corporation,
Sheila Martin, CEO, Liverpool, NY

Imagineering, Inc.,
Parvin Dhanji, President, Elk Grove Village, IL

Integrity Technical Services, Inc.,
Judith O'Neil, Tallmadge, OH

Interrail Engineering, Inc.,
Chryol Kelley, President, Jacksonville, FL

J.E.S. Engineering Contractors, Inc.,
Cyndy Klausner, President, Capistrano Beach, CA

Knott's Wholesale Foods, Inc.,
Cindy Knott, CEO, Paris, TN

Lion's Gate Drafting & Design, Inc.,
Erika Knight, President, Canton, GA

The Marketing Group, Inc.,
Mary Manning, President, Louisville, KY

McCotter Industries, Inc.
dba Sports To You, Cynthia McCotter, President, Monroe, NC

Metal Tech Systems, Inc.,
Letitia Gordon, President, Commerce Township, MI

Montrose Construction, Inc.,
Lindsay Foess, President, Cornelius, NC

MSF Data Services, Inc.,
Lisa DeVeau Burant, President, Hartland, WI

Native American Group, LLC
dba Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Susan Jenkins, Virginia Beach, VA

Ossian Law, PC,
Kathryn Ossian, CEO, Ferndale, MI

Pat Chem, LLC
dba Pat Chem Laboratories, Jennifer Charleston-Porter, Moorpark, CA

Radiofrequency Safety International Corp.,
Miranda Walz-Allen, CEO, Kiowa, KS

Ripe Naturals, LLC
dba Rooted Beauty, Kimberly Garrett, Rocky River, OH

Rite-Way Industries, Inc.,
Deborah Embry, President, New Albany, IN

Shark Industries, Ltd.,
Diana Mini, President, Rockford, MN

Shay Tech, Inc.,
Shaila Rao, CEO, Irvine, CA

Simple Mills, Inc.,
Katlin Smith, CEO, Chicago, IL

Summit Technical Solutions, LLC,
Kelly Terrien, CEO, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Sunshine Raisin Corporation
dba National Raisin Company, LindaKay Abdulian, CEO, Fowler, CA

Tice Enterprises, Inc.,
Virginia Tice, President, Kenton, OH  
Trendset Communications Group,
LLC, Kelly Evans-McCarthy, President, Sterling Heights, MI

Ty-Cour Enterprises, Inc.,
Vita Crews, President, Madison, IL

Urban Art Group, Inc.,
Theresa Powers, President, Lake Mary, FL

W.C. Machine, LLC,
Sarah Collins, Plymouth, MA

WG Services, LLC,
Wende Gex, Brandenburg, KY

Wings & Wheels Delivery, Inc.,
Lynette Gavlinski, President, Harrison Township, MI

Zelus Consulting Group,
LLC, Carol Fahy, Medford, MA


WOSB / EDWOSB Certified:

AMEC, LLC,
Pamela Lindsey, Greenville, SC

Analytical Food Laboratories, Inc.,
Rebecca Pfundheller, President, Grand Prairie, TX

AT3 Professional Staffing Solutions, Inc.,
Tonya Brock, CEO, West Chester, OH

BB&G Enterprises, LLC,
Tena Rebecca DeGeorgis, Canton, GA

Bio Brain, Inc.,
Barbara Goldman, President, Sarasota, FL

Carswell Services, Inc.,
Anna Hancock, President, Jacksonville, FL

Consolidated Restoration, LLC,
Angel Pumila, Kenner, LA

Coury Science and Engineering, PLLC,
Charity Coury, Ph.D., Hampstead, NC

Detroit Tree Recycling, Inc.,
Patricia Keech, President, Southfield, MI

DSD Laboratories, Inc.,
Andrea Guerreri, CEO, Sudbury, MA

Dynamic Analysis, LLC,
Amy Kemp, Ph.D., President, Laveen, AZ

Heidi Kolbe & Company
dba The Kolbe Company, Heidi Kolbe, CEO, West Sacramento, CA

Imagineering, Inc.,
Parvin Dhanji, President, Elk Grove Village, IL

IT Objects, LLC,
Ashritha Chada, CEO, Herndon, VA

Larwood Pharmacy, Inc.,
Linda Moden Andrews, R.Ph., President, East Aurora, NY

Michlin Metals, Inc.,
Terrie Hersch, President, Northbrook, IL

MSF Data Services, Inc.,
Lisa DeVeau Burant, President, Hartland, WI

Native American Group, LLC
dba Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Susan Jenkins, Virginia Beach, VA

R & R Engineering, LLC,
Marcia Rice, Springfield, TN

RMS - Recovery Management Services, Inc.,
Mary Mickus, President, Warrenville, IL

Shark Industries, Ltd.,
Diana Mini, President, Rockford, MN

Summit Technical Solutions, LLC,
Kelly Terrien, CEO, Colorado Springs, CO

Thompson & Little, Inc.,
Lynne O'Quinn, President, Fayetteville, NC

WG Services, LLC,
Wende Gex, Brandenburg, KY

XYZ University, LLC,
Sarah Sladek, CEO, Maple Grove, MN

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