people DPA Honors Distributor With Founder’s Award Distributor Partners of America (DPA), a member-driven buying and marketing group, recently announced the recipient of its prestigious Founder’s Award at DPA’s annual Buying & Networking Conference in Fort Myers, Florida, according to a press release. This year’s Founder’s Award was the sev-enth given in the group’s history, and the honor went to Alleghany Supply & Main-tenance Co. in Duncansville, Pennsylvania. The DPA Founder’s Award recognizes a company or individual that has been with DPA from the beginning and that embod-ies the spirit of the organization. Alleghany was founded in 1971, and serves the janitorial, laundry and kitchen markets throughout the Mid-Atlantic. “They have been a part of DPA for 14 years and are always looking for opportu-nities to support our preferred vendors,” Zachary T. Haines, DPA executive director, said in the release. NEST started as a small business with a passion for doing good business with other good businesses,” Almond stated in the release. “Twenty years later, we’re building strategic facilities business plans for top retailers, banks, schools, hotels and restaurant chains.” NEST International, founded in 1994, specializes in developing and operating fa-cilities business plans for companies with a national footprint. The goal of the company is to help retail-ers, banks, schools, restaurants, hotels and other multi-location businesses maximize operational spending by offering quality service and financial solutions. NEST CEO Wins Entrepreneur Award Philadelphia Busi-ness Journal has an-nounced their 2014 South Jersey Entre-preneur Awards, ac-cording to a press release. NEST International Bob Almond CEO, Bob Almond, has been included on this exclusive list with the title of Rapid Revenue Growth. Awards are also given in the categories of: Community Champion, Economic Impact, Made in South Jersey, Serial Entrepreneur and Startup of the Year. Bob Almond, who established NEST in 1994, started out with one service disci-pline, a commitment to client satisfaction and 15 years of facility maintenance experi-ence. He has built the company into an indus-try leader with phenomenal growth over the past 20 years. “It’s an honor to be given the title of Rapid Revenue Growth by Biz Journal. FREE INFO: Reader Service 210 or CMMOnline.com/freeinfo www.cmmonline.com 11
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