First I'd like to give KUDOS to all of you who participated on our online voting for our Annual Business Awards, helping us select the companies that will be honored at the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce's gala on March 23.
We had a lot of fun watching how companies rallied their fans to vote, and we had tremendous response.
By honoring past Business Awards winners, this is really a stellar field, a veritable who's-who of Carlsbad's business leaders.
If you want to find out who will win in the small, medium and large business categories, as well as in our entrepreneur and business person of the decade, get your tickets to the event now by calling the Chamber at 760-931-8400 or visit www.carlsbad.org.
While I mentioned them last time, I think that all of our finalist deserve KUDOS. They are:
Businessperson
Larry Anderson
(Tri-City Medical Center)
Bill Canepa
(Hilton)
Greg Lucier
(Life Technologies Corporation)
Tim Stripe
(Grand Pacific Resorts, Inc.)
Entrepreneur
David & Susan Danglard
(K1 Speed)
Christine Davis
(Coolest Shoes in California)
Brett Hanley
(Solatube Global Marketing)
Troy Mills and Tim Wrisley
(Carlsbad Magazine)
Tina Nova
(Genoptix Medical Laboratory)
Joe Patterson
(Toe Sox, Inc.)
Ted Vallas
(California Pacific Airlines)
Small Business
Fish Window Cleaning
Flowers Forever
Gems of La Costa
The Grand Deli
Isaac's Catering
John Stevenson Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning
Productive Computing
Solutions Business Imaging
Sylvan Learning Center, Encinitas
YourOpsManager
Medium Business
AKT, LLP
Arbor Scientia
Jet Source, Inc.
K1 Speed
King's Fish House
Marrs Maddocks & Associates
Insurance Services
Museum of Making Music
RBF Consulting
Large Business
Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Buffini & Company
Datron World Communications
Life Technologies
LEGOLAND California
Toyota Carlsbad
ViaSat Inc.
Waste Management
KUDOS to Julianna Garner, who was selected as Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad's Youth of the Year winner and Lucas Clayton, the runner-up.
The Youth of the Year program recognizes superior leadership skills, academic achievement, obstacles overcome, and outstanding service to Boys & Girls Clubs and the community. KUDOS also go to Julie and Matt Harelson, whose generosity will allow Garner to receive a $10,000 college scholarship.
"I am so grateful to the Boys & Girls Club for making me the person I am today," Julianna said. "This scholarship will bring my dream of graduating from SFU even closer, and make me work even harder to achieve this goal!"
"Jules is a 'born to lead' kind of kid," said Club CEO Brad Holland. "She's been a Club member for eight years, and participated in every activity we've got. She's a positive and inspiring role model for everyone, and we're so proud of her many accomplishments!"
Recognition were given to Julianna and Lucas, as well as three other Youth of the Year finalists, at the Club's Super Star Recognition Dinner held on Feb. 13 at their Village Branch.
KUDOS to Life Technologies Corp. which was 33rd among the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations."
The goal of the Global 100 is to highlight the 100 top-performing stocks worldwide on a range of sector-specific sustainability metrics in managing environmental, social and corporate governance issues. Of the 12 key performance indicators, Life Technologies rated highly in resource management – reducing its energy use, water consumption, waste generation and CO2 emissions as a percentage of revenue.
"In the past five years, we have radically transformed our company in the pursuit of a better sustainable business model – one that is more efficient, smarter, and with a lighter footprint," said Cristina Amorim, Chief Sustainability Officer for Life Technologies. "Being named to the Global 100 is recognition of the many changes – both large and small – made by the people of Life Technologies."
We had a lot of fun watching how companies rallied their fans to vote, and we had tremendous response.
By honoring past Business Awards winners, this is really a stellar field, a veritable who's-who of Carlsbad's business leaders.
If you want to find out who will win in the small, medium and large business categories, as well as in our entrepreneur and business person of the decade, get your tickets to the event now by calling the Chamber at 760-931-8400 or visit www.carlsbad.org.
While I mentioned them last time, I think that all of our finalist deserve KUDOS. They are:
Businessperson
Larry Anderson
(Tri-City Medical Center)
Bill Canepa
(Hilton)
Greg Lucier
(Life Technologies Corporation)
Tim Stripe
(Grand Pacific Resorts, Inc.)
Entrepreneur
David & Susan Danglard
(K1 Speed)
Christine Davis
(Coolest Shoes in California)
Brett Hanley
(Solatube Global Marketing)
Troy Mills and Tim Wrisley
(Carlsbad Magazine)
Tina Nova
(Genoptix Medical Laboratory)
Joe Patterson
(Toe Sox, Inc.)
Ted Vallas
(California Pacific Airlines)
Small Business
Fish Window Cleaning
Flowers Forever
Gems of La Costa
The Grand Deli
Isaac's Catering
John Stevenson Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning
Productive Computing
Solutions Business Imaging
Sylvan Learning Center, Encinitas
YourOpsManager
Medium Business
AKT, LLP
Arbor Scientia
Jet Source, Inc.
K1 Speed
King's Fish House
Marrs Maddocks & Associates
Insurance Services
Museum of Making Music
RBF Consulting
Large Business
Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Buffini & Company
Datron World Communications
Life Technologies
LEGOLAND California
Toyota Carlsbad
ViaSat Inc.
Waste Management
KUDOS to Julianna Garner, who was selected as Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad's Youth of the Year winner and Lucas Clayton, the runner-up.
The Youth of the Year program recognizes superior leadership skills, academic achievement, obstacles overcome, and outstanding service to Boys & Girls Clubs and the community. KUDOS also go to Julie and Matt Harelson, whose generosity will allow Garner to receive a $10,000 college scholarship.
"I am so grateful to the Boys & Girls Club for making me the person I am today," Julianna said. "This scholarship will bring my dream of graduating from SFU even closer, and make me work even harder to achieve this goal!"
"Jules is a 'born to lead' kind of kid," said Club CEO Brad Holland. "She's been a Club member for eight years, and participated in every activity we've got. She's a positive and inspiring role model for everyone, and we're so proud of her many accomplishments!"
Recognition were given to Julianna and Lucas, as well as three other Youth of the Year finalists, at the Club's Super Star Recognition Dinner held on Feb. 13 at their Village Branch.
KUDOS to Life Technologies Corp. which was 33rd among the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations."
The goal of the Global 100 is to highlight the 100 top-performing stocks worldwide on a range of sector-specific sustainability metrics in managing environmental, social and corporate governance issues. Of the 12 key performance indicators, Life Technologies rated highly in resource management – reducing its energy use, water consumption, waste generation and CO2 emissions as a percentage of revenue.
"In the past five years, we have radically transformed our company in the pursuit of a better sustainable business model – one that is more efficient, smarter, and with a lighter footprint," said Cristina Amorim, Chief Sustainability Officer for Life Technologies. "Being named to the Global 100 is recognition of the many changes – both large and small – made by the people of Life Technologies."