Three Small Businesses Chosen for the First Time in a Single Year
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has announced that seven organizations are recipients of the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership. This marks the first year that three small businesses have been selected at one time and only the second instance in the award's 23-year history that a total of seven organizations are being honored.
The 2010 Baldrige Award recipients—listed with their category—are:
- MEDRAD, Warrendale, Pa. (manufacturing also selected in the manufacturing category in 2003)
- Nestlé Purina PetCare Co., St. Louis, Mo. (manufacturing)
- Freese and Nichols Inc., Fort Worth, Texas (small business)
- K&N Management, Austin, Texas (small business)
- Studer Group, Gulf Breeze, Fla. (small business)
- Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove, Ill. (health care)
- Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, Md. (education)
These seven organizations will present their best practices and lessons learned at the 23rd annual Quest for Excellence in early April. The GSQC will hold its annual overview of the best practices of these organziations in late April or early May as part of its 2011 Learning and Sharing series.
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