Better Business Bureau Announces 2008 Integrity Award Recipients
A recognition program of your BBB’s Center For Character Ethics

[August 27, 2008] Columbus, Ohio – Your Better Business Bureau Foundation serving Central Ohio announced today the recipients of BBB’s 14th annual Integrity Awards. 

Five businesses and two non-profit organizations have been selected as recipients of the prestigious 2008 Integrity Award. 

Recipients of the 2008 Integrity Award, including a description of their line of business are: Finish Line Building – Builder/Remodeler; Kresge Contracting Inc. – Remodeler/Contractor; Artina Promotional Products – Promotional Products/Awards; HRH (Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs of Ohio) – Risk Management, Insurance Services and Employee Benefits; Waste Management of Ohio Inc. – Waste Removal, recycling & disposal. 

The Non-Profit recipients are Jewish Family Services & Maryhaven.

A panel of judges selected these companies based on a number of criteria including their high standards of excellence toward customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders, and communities in which they do business, and their reputation of ethical practices in the marketplace.

"Central Ohio has so many great companies operating with high character” said Kip Morse, President of the Better Business Bureau. "These seven Integrity Award recipients clearly demonstrated with their entries, superior character on a daily basis, and consistently exceed marketplace standards for ethics in their relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, industry peers and the communities in which that do business.”

The recipients will be honored Thursday, October 28th, at the Integrity Award Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom in downtown Columbus. Anyone interested in joining the BBB and the business community in honoring these organizations, may contact the BBB at 614-486-6531 ext. 129.

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