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HLB Lighting

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HLB Lighting Design is the largest independent architectural lighting design firm in North America. HLB, which was founded in 1968 by a pioneer in the lighting industry; Jules Horton, is an acronym for the last names of his three successors; Barbara Horton, Stephen Lees and Teal Brogden. While the firm’s original office was in New York City, the firm has since expanded with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Denver, and Austin. They also employ other remote workers who are deployed across the country and internationally.

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GUY Engineering is a consulting firm with extensive experience in civil engineering and land surveying. Since 1987, GUY has been providing quality design work on hundreds of projects ranging from roadway and bridge designs to bridge inspection to water distribution and sanitary sewer improvements throughout the state of Oklahoma.

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Global Recovery Corp. (GRC) was spun-out of a department of SRC Logistics back in 2013 with just five employees. The company works with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to help maximize their return on aging, obsolete core inventories and scrap. More recently, the company has diversified by expanding into remanufacturing irrigation power units.

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Essential Ingredients (Ei) was founded in May 1996 in Augusta, GA. The company, which distributes chemicals and other supplies to the cosmetics industry, has been 100% employee-owned since 2011. More recently, it has become part of a holdings company called Cathedral Holdings. With a stated purpose of “being a blessing to others and inspiring others to be a blessing as well,” the Essential Ingredients team is driven to live out this purpose for decades and generations to come.

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The island nation of Sri Lanka has long been revered for its tea, especially in the United Kingdom. In 2010, Suranga Herath and his team capitalized on that history when they rebranded the business (which was founded in 2001), calling it English Tea Shop. Building on lessons learned from earlier in the company’s history, when it catered to low cost and mass production, English Tea Shop evolved into a premium organic brand. They did that by moving away from the traditional auction model used to buy tea for centuries. To help promote sustainable agriculture practices, the company now buys its tea directly from organic farmers.

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Cherry’s builds and sells specialized equipment used in warehouses to transfer product on and off pallets. The company, which sells primarily to Fortune 500 companies, also manufactures equipment used to clean and maintain pallets.

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Caliber is a multi-family residential and mixed-use commercial construction management and general contracting firm that works with real estate developers in the Greater Vancouver, Canada, area to “Crush It, Own It, and Love It” on large scale projects, ensuring they stay on time, on budget, and on schedule. Their purpose at Caliber is “Building People and Processes”; they “just happen to do Construction.”

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Primarily manufactures and remanufactures heavy-duty diesel fuel injection systems and related components.

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Founded in 1998, 417 Magazine is a second-generation, family-owned regional magazine that focuses on telling its nearly 400,000 monthly audience members the stories they need to know from all around southwest Missouri. The company has also evolved to produce custom publications for corporations, communities, and charities.

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Honeyville has been in business since 1951, when founder Lowell Sherratt Sr. opened a grain processing plant in Honeyville, Utah. Now, 71 years later, the business has expanded to include four facilities in Utah, Arizona, and Southern California where they continue to mill grain and process commodities like corn, flour, and oil. They also co-manufacture branded and private label products like pancake, cake, baking mixes, and hot and cold drink mixes.

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