Success Stories 2008

NJSBDC Business Growth
Success Awards 2009

The New Jersey Small Business Development Centers
Celebrates the Achievements of
Businesses Making a Difference at the
NJSBDC’s Business Growth Success Awards Luncheon

DATE: Friday, December 4, 2009
LOCATION: The Forsgate Country Club
Monroe Township, NJ
TIME: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Join business owners, leaders in higher education & government,
and other public policy decision-makers in recognizing successful
NJSBDC small business clients from around the State.

Their inspiring stories bring us together to celebrate the power of ideas,
vision, and perseverance.

Featured Speaker

CURT CLINKINBEARD

Executive Director, FAMEE Foundation
Author of CUSTOMER PILLARS

EVENT GOLD SPONSORS

To Register online click here
($65 for NJSBDC clients / $75 for non-clients)

contact Maria Torres at 973-353-1927

NJSBDC… Where Businesses Go to GROW!

Success Stories 2007

NJSBDC Business Growth Success Awards

Premier Sponsors	Silver Sponsor

Join us as a sponsor of the 2008 Business Growth Success Awards on Dec. 5, 2008..

2008 Sponsor Information

NJSBDC 2007 Award Winners

Click the links to read these companies’ stories.

Success Stories 2006

Small Business Success Stories

The NJSBDC Small Business Success Awards luncheon on Dec. 2 recognized some of the best and brightest New Jersey small business owners for their work with NJSBDC to help build their growing businesses. In addition to the businesses listed below, New Jersey State Legislators Senator Leonard Lance (District-23), Assemblyman Richard A. Merkt (District-25), Senator Anthony R. Bucco (District-25), Assemblywoman Nellie Pou (District-35) and U.S. Congressmen Donald M. Payne (10th Congressional District) and Albio Sires (13th Congressional District) were recognized as “Small Business Advocates” for their support of the NJSBDC mission of economic development through small business assistance.

Donna Fenn, Inc. magazine contributing editor and author of Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become A Leader Of The Pack talked about competitive strategies for small business owners to a capacity crowd.

2006 Luncheon Sponsors
Verizon	PNC Bank	NJBIZ

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For high resolution images (large file size, good for printing), click on the highres links

2006 Success Awards	On the dias
Estro Entertainment | highres	Alternative Financial Services | highres
AutoCheckMate.com | highres	Cousins Finest Carribean Cuisine | highres
Feed Your Soul | highres	Discover Wine | highres
AV Business Comm. Systems | highres	Illumination Arts | highres
KAMMS Consulting | highres	Authentic Foods | highres
MicroDysis | highres	NJ Transit Ernie Williams | highres
Datatek | highres	Amer. Soc, Prof. Estimators | highres

Success Stories 2005

Success Stories 2004

NJSBDC Celebrates 25 years

The NJ Small Business Centers (NJSBDC) network celebrated 25 years of helping entrepreneurs turn their dreams into successful small businesses with a gala dinner reception held at the Rutgers Center for Law and Justice in Newark. More than 250 people came out to celebrate the NJSBDC’s commitment to serving small business and honor the network that makes NJSBDC’s business assistance possible.

New Jersey leaders Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jon Corzine were honored along with SBA Administrator Hector Barreto. Small business honors were also awarded to clients of the NJSBDC including Roree Iris-Williams and Sarah Orleans of the Garden State Discovery Museum in Cherry Hill, LeDung Tran of SyPort Systems, Inc. and Hiasun, Inc. in Bridgewater, Tracey Spyhax of Capitol City Contracting in Trenton and Malachia Brantley, Sr. of Brantley Brothers Moving and Storage Co. in Newark.

For 25 years the NJSBDC has been a community presence finding homes in community colleges, colleges and universities throughout the state. The evening’s program also recognized representatives of host institutions at Rutgers University, Bergen Community College, Brookdale Community College, Kean University, New Jersey City University, Raritan Valley Community College, College of NJ, Warren County Community College and William Paterson University for their longstanding support of the SBDC program.

Last year the NJSBDC received corporate support to provide additional services from private sector partners Fleet Bank, PSEG, Netsoft-USA, NJBiz and Hale and Dorr, LLP to facilitate additional outreach in urban areas and underwrite specialty programs focused in on small businesses’ technology commercialization and information technology needs.

NJSBDC State Director Brenda B. Hopper with NJSBDC 25th anniversary winner client Malachia Brantley of Brantley Brothers Moving and Storage and wife Katherine

NJSBDC 25th anniversary winning clients Sarah Orleans and Roree Iris-Williams of the Garden State Discovery Museum and NJSBDC Advisory Board chair Avis Yates-Rivers

Mercer/Middlesex SBDC at The College of NJ Regional Director Lorraine Allen with award winning client Tracey Spyhax of Spyhax Construction and Yates-Rivers

Kean University SBDC Regional Director Mira Romeo and award winning client Lee Tran of SyPort Systems, Inc. and Hiasun, Inc

We thank the following companies for their support of the NJSBDC 25th Anniversary Celebration in June.

Sponsors:

The NJSBDC provides free management consulting services and affordable training for established small businesses and new start-ups through 11 regional centers and 18 affiliate locations throughout the state. A private-public partnership, the NJSBDC is funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration, the NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and Rutgers Business School: Graduate Programs-Newark and New Brunswick.

Success Stories 2003

Small Business Success Awards 2002

Small Business Success Awards 2002

NJSBDC State Director Brenda B. Hopper started off the NJSBDC Success Awards 2002 luncheon by thanking the group of 18 small business honorees for having the vision to innovate and create businesses, new products, additional revenue and much-needed jobs in 2002. Hopper took the opportunity to launch the NJSBDC’s 25th Anniversary year, as the network was established in 1978. She promised a year full of special events to focus attention on the role of entrepreneurship in economic development.

Honored guests Dean Howard P. Tuckman of Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, US Small Business Administration Region II Administrator Michael Pappas, Acting NJ District Director James Kocsi, Kate Muldoon of Fleet Women’s Entrepreneurial Connection and VP Fleeta Barnes of the NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission all talked about how their organizations support NJSBDC and New Jersey’s small business community.

After presentation of a special award to Kate Muldoon for Fleet’s support and sponsorship of the NJSBDC network, Brenda and Associate State Director Bernadette Tiernan presented the NJSBDC Success Awards 2002 to winners from NJSBDC regional centers and specialty programs.

The winning businesses are:

• Cafe J
• Precision Abrasives and Tools
• SpyGlass Staffing
• Adult Care We Care
• Llanes Electronics
• Hogan Security Group
• Abracadabra Color Copy and Digital Printing Centers
• Super-Educational Center
• Judah, Inc.
• Rich Flowers
• Silverthorne Furniture
• Kujichaguli Bookstore
• Business Plus Corporation
• Mechanical Solutions
• Viva Center for Nutrition
• Tabatchnick Fine Foods
• Power Magnetics

Small Business Success Awards 2001

Successful small businesses were applauded for the high standards of excellence in their enterprises, Dec. 14 by the NJ Small Business Development Centers network. NJSBDC State Director Brenda B. Hopper started off the East Brunswick ceremony with words of praise for the entrepreneurs, welcome to the community of small business advocates and encouragement for staff to continue delivering the high-quality business management consulting necessary in today’s competitive marketplace.

Honored guests Dean Howard P. Tuckman of Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, US Small Business Administration District Director James Kocsi, Lucia DiNapoli Gibbons of Fleet Small Business Services and Pat Guidotti of the NJ Commerce and Economic Growth Commission talked about the importance of small businesses to the economy and the need to support small businesses’ aspirations.

After presentation of a Distinguished Service award to retiring Associate State Director Alyson B. Miller-Greenfield, Brenda and Statewide Advisory Board Chairman Roger S. Cohen presented the NJSBDC Success Awards 2001 to winners from NJSBDC regional centers and specialty programs.

The winning businesses are:

• Light Productions, Ltd.
• Tri-Brothers, Inc.
• Off Broadway Cocktail Lounge
• Main Camera/1 Hour Photo
• H&S Cleaning Service, Inc.
• Director’s Video
• DomestiCare
• Expectant Treasures
• Invincible Furniture
• Wilmom Telecommunications, Inc.
• World According to Jess, LLC.
• InMat, LLC
• ACM Records
• Greenfield Jewelers
• Thomas Foods, Inc.
• Rheometric Scientific
• Little Blessings, Inc.

Frank Burke and James Kosci also gave Alyson B. Miller Greenfield an award from the SBA.