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Small businesses receive awards
31 Mar 2017
The Kansas Small Business Development Center statewide network recognized 17 small businesses across the state in the 2017 Existing, Emerging and Exporting Businesses of the Year ceremony in Topeka.
The winners were selected from more than 2,000 businesses that received Kansas SBDC one-on-one advising services in 2016. Each of the eight Kansas SBDC regional centers selected one emerging and one existing business for the award. One business received the Kansas SBDC Exporter of the Year for 2017.
Area businesses recognized included Heartland Mill, Inc., of Marienthal.
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