BUSINESS AWARDS
Honda honored 21 suppliers that provide indirect products and services to five Honda manufacturing plants in Ohio and Indiana and corporate operations at Honda North America, Inc. during its annual Honda Indirect Procurement Supplier Conference at the Honda Heritage Center in Marysville, Ohio.
Award winners provided products and services for auto plants in Marysville and East Liberty, Ohio, and Greensburg, Ind. as well as the operations of Honda’s engine plant in Anna, Ohio, its transmission plant in Russells Point, Ohio and Honda North America, Inc. in Marysville, Ohio. Indirect purchasing for business and manufacturing operations in Indiana and Ohio from more than 2,200 suppliers totaled $2.55 billion during calendar year 2017.
Combined Technologies Group, Inc. (ComTech) is an indirect supplier for Honda Manufacturing. ComTech was honored by Honda with a Performance Excellence Award, which ranks them as not only one of the best Honda indirect suppliers in North America, but among the best indirect suppliers in the world.
The 21 award-winning suppliers were honored for achievements in the categories of Outstanding Value, Performance Excellence, Special Recognition and Supplier of the Year.
Fidelity Health Care recently received a 5-Star Rating for quality of its patient care from Home Health Compare, a ratings system operated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The 5-Star Rating from Home Health Compare, the highest possible, places Fidelity Health Care in the top 6 percent of home health care agencies across the country, and in the top 3 percent in Ohio. Star ratings range from 1 to 5 and are based on eight measures of quality that give an overview of performance. A star rating higher than 3.5 means that an agency performed better than average compared to other agencies.
CMS, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, created Home Health Compare to provide consumers with a reliable measure of home health care quality. Home Health Compare publishes information about the quality of care provided by Medicare-certified home health agencies throughout the nation. Learn more at medicare.gov/homehealthcompare.
During the recent Ohio REALTORS®’ Annual Conference held in Columbus, Young H. Kim, Broker Owner of Young Kim Realty, LLC in Washington Twp. received the prestigious President’s Sales Club Award of Distinction. This award is presented to honor top producers in the industry. Kim has been receiving President’s Sales Club Awards consecutively over 27 years.
Young is currently serving as a Director at the Ohio Association of REALTORS®(OAR)
Warren County Small Business Development Center Executive Director Michael Stater has been selected as the 2018 Ohio SBDC State Star. He was nominated and chosen by his peers in Ohio for his work ethic, production results and professional development. Among his accomplishments, he created the Warren County Business Expo five years ago and it has grown to be the largest B2B event in the county. He continues to manage the event, which connects entrepreneurs with experts and solution providers and features high-profile speakers.
Stater has increased the Warren County Small Business Development Alliance from 27 members in 2015 to 39 members in 2018. In the past two fiscal years, Stater achieved 300 percent of grant quota for new business starts and 166 percent of grant quota for capital injection.
Among Stater’s accomplishments this past year, he was selected by his Ohio peers for their network Advocacy Award; he was chosen as a team leader for the County Chamber Alliance Washington, D.C. Fly-In and Capitol Drive Day in Columbus; was a speaker at the Procter & Gamble International Alumni Conference Small Business Symposium; and was a guest on Sirius/XM Radio’s America’s Small Business Report.