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(SAINT PAUL, MINN., NOVEMBER 4, 2016) - Last evening, the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce announced the 2016 Deubener Award winners at the Eighth Annual Chamber Honors Celebration. Members of the local business community gathered at A'BULAE to celebrate business success in the Saint Paul/East Metro area and honored businesses and individuals from the community for their tremendous efforts. The Deubener Award winners and finalists are: Nonprofit Service Business Winner: Park Square Theatre Finalists: Cookie Cart | High School for Recording Arts | Neighborhood Development Center For-Profit Service Business Winner: Solution Blue Finalists: BWBR | Midpointe Event Center Emerging Business Winner: Fractional Toy Store Finalists: Afro Deli | Envision Catering and Hospitality Family-Owned Business Winner: Sunrise Banks Finalists: Anchor Paper Company | Wellington Management Women/Minority-Owned Business Winner: Vogel Mechanical, Inc. Finalists: HED Cycling Products | Innovative Office Solutions Individual Award Winners: Emerging Volunteer of the Year Sara Thatcher, Goff Public Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Terri Banaszewski, Sunrise Banks Legacy of Leadership William Morrissey, Morrissey Hospitality Companies, Inc. About the Deubener Awards In honor of Walter & Lydia Deubener, the Saint Paul Area Chamber annually presents Deubener Awards to five organizations that exemplify growth, excellence, risk, diversity and innovation. The Deubeners were the proprietors of a grocery store in downtown Saint Paul and invented the first shopping bag with handles, which increased the store's business overnight. The couple eventually sold their store and established manufacturing facilities in Saint Paul, with sales in 1919 totaling one million bags.
(SAINT PAUL, MINN., NOVEMBER 4, 2016) - Last evening, the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce announced the 2016 Deubener Award winners at the Eighth Annual Chamber Honors Celebration. Members of the local business community gathered at A'BULAE to celebrate business success in the Saint Paul/East Metro area and honored businesses and individuals from the community for their tremendous efforts.
The Deubener Award winners and finalists are:
Nonprofit Service Business Winner: Park Square Theatre Finalists: Cookie Cart | High School for Recording Arts | Neighborhood Development Center
For-Profit Service Business Winner: Solution Blue Finalists: BWBR | Midpointe Event Center
Emerging Business Winner: Fractional Toy Store Finalists: Afro Deli | Envision Catering and Hospitality
Family-Owned Business Winner: Sunrise Banks Finalists: Anchor Paper Company | Wellington Management
Women/Minority-Owned Business Winner: Vogel Mechanical, Inc. Finalists: HED Cycling Products | Innovative Office Solutions
Individual Award Winners: Emerging Volunteer of the Year Sara Thatcher, Goff Public
Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Terri Banaszewski, Sunrise Banks