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Celebrating
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AT THE SUMMI T NFIB teamed up with small business-friendly sponsors, including Sam’s Club, Solveras, Dell and SBTV, to honor innovative independent business owners from

all over the country who are fighting the daily struggles of
entrepreneurship—and winning. Thanks to our sponsors for
joining us in celebrating the successes of these entrepreneurs.
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Dell/NFIB Small Business
Excellence Award

[ STEVE AND KAREN MATTIE ]

Dell and NFIB rewarded 10 small business owners who use innovative technology to run their enterprises. The nine finalists received a free Dell business-class laptop and a one-year NFIB membership, and this year’s winner, Steve and Karen Mattie of Transport Designs in Montoursville, Pa., received $25,000 in Dell products, a lifetime NFIB membership and a day at the Dell facilities.

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Small Business Works for America Award

How does small business work for America? Contestants competing for NFIB’s first Small Business Works for America Award created 30-second videos to answer this question, but none fared better than Marc Boese and Michael Cottrell of Jacksonville, Fla. Boese and Cotrell received

_WATCH first prize for their video, “Lemonade,” and

NOW were rewarded with $5,000 and an all-expensespaid trip tothe Summit.

SBTV/Sam’s Club/NFIB
Small Business Makeover Award

[ WAYNEMCINTYRE ]

To honor risk-taking entrepreneurs for creating the bulk of America’s jobs, Sam’s Club, SBTV and NFIB joined together to offer the Small Business Makeover Award. Wayne McIntyre of McIntyre Plumbing in Tyler, Texas, received the award, as well as $45,000 in Sam’s Club merchandise, $25,000 cash, a full year of business mentoring from SBTV and a lifetime NFIB membership.

“ We are looking forward to helping small business owners grow their operations by d emonstrating how we can lower their costs o n items they use or resell. While there is just o ne Small Business Makeover winner, we are c onfident we can help small business own- ers nationwide win by making their dollars go farther, and improving their bottom line.”

Solveras/NFIB Small Business
Champion Awards

Each year NFIB honors a small business
activist in each state with the Small Business

Champion Award. This year’s regional
winners were honored at the Summit:
William Thornton, owner of Thornton
WATCH & Associates in Lebanon, Ohio; Bobra
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Telecare Corporation in Boca Raton, Fla.;
Catherine Popp Hoffman, owner of HB
Capital in Zionsville, Ind.; and Billy Knorpp,
owner of RVP Systems in Boise, Idaho.

Catherine Corley, vice president, Insights for Small Business, Sam’s Club, on Makeover Award winner