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Small Business Owner Consulted by Protégé Guidance Program

Diversified Systems Inc. was founded in 1990 by Archie Williamson Jr. DSI provides a diverse range of computer services including project administration, systems integration, application development, web development and administration, mainframe...

C & W Swiss, Inc. Success Story

Tammy and Greg Crabtree always wanted to own their own business. They wanted to use their knowledge and skills to make money for themselves and not someone else, be in control of their own retirement plan and have the ability to pass something...

A+ Childcare and Learning Center, a New Home for Early Childhood Education

Annette Doughty started her day care center six years ago with the help of an SBA loan. She has a bachelor's degree in education, and said she had long wanted to open a quality daycare/learning center. Doughty's business provides not...

Picture of Dr. Kenneth Boltz of Drs. Boltz and Rengert Inc.

Two Optometrists under One Roof

In 1985, upon completion of his degree from The Ohio State University Optometry College, Kenneth Boltz D.O. opened his own optometry practice. In 1995, fellow optometrist Michael Rengert joined the practice. Boltz specializes in pediatric...

Small Business Owner Receives SBA Loan to Purchase Equipment

The SBA provided Conveyor Metal Works with the capital to purchase the equipment required to help manufacture its products. The company, started in 2000 by Scott Wolfe, makes a full line of gravity roller conveyors, powered roller conveyors, and...

Small Business Owner Receives SBA Loan for Working Capital

PeakEnergy LLC was started by Steve Elsea in May 2000 to help utility companies and other energy providers use existing generators at private businesses during peak demand periods. This business benefits utility companies that would have had to...

Small Business Owner Receives 504 Loan, Moves into Larger Facility

Wolfden Products began about five years ago when Alex Wolford decided he wanted to have control of his own destiny. Wolfden Products makes lightweight replacement carbon fiber composite parts to replace heavier steel parts. Among other items,...

Music Love Created an Entrepreneur

With the help of a SBA loan, Bill Foley purchased a community landmark: the German Village Music Haus. The business has been in existence for more than half a century, and Bill worked there as a luthiere (a person who works on stringed...

Small Business Owner Receives SBA Loan to Grow

After studying and working in many other hotel chains, Neil Pandya started the planning process to build his hotel in early 1999. He signed a contract with Microtel in early 2000, and was opened and ready for business on March 1, 2001. The hotel...

Small Business Owner Offers Advice for Aspiring Business Owners

Quantum Health, LLC. was founded in 1999 by Kara Trott to help self-insured employers reduce health-care costs. Over the past five years, Quantum Health has held participating employers annual cost increases to just 5 percent to 6 percent,...

Owner of Oak Tree Communications, LLC Named 2nd Runner-up for Cincinnati SCORE Chapter Client of the Year

Oak Tree Communications, LLC is a West Chester, Ohio publicity and public relations company. Owned by Melinda Zemper, the firm specializes in writing and editing, media relations, strategic planning, event and campaign planning and project...

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Working Hard on the Road to Success

After graduating from the University of Tennessee with honors in accounting, Anderson moved to Columbus and worked for various accounting firms. He realized, however, that he wouldn't be truly satisfied until he started his own business. About...

Owners of Embrace Sweets Company, LLC Named Cincinnati SCORE Chapter Client of the Year

Embrace Sweets Company, LLC, is located in Over the Rhine and produces gourmet desserts. Owned by mother and daughter duo, Sandra and Brandi Daniels, they are in their third year of business. Currently, their efforts are focused on the wholesale...

Prodigy Construction Management

Daily Reporter 03/10/06 Joe Holbrook and his cousin Ryan Gunnoe were working for the same construction company when they decided to start their own construction management company in 1999. Holbrook, who has four children, had to be talked into...

Pastries Taste Better with Some Help From SBA

Ever since Cindy Dobo-Hoffman was a child, she wanted to own a bakery. It all started when Cindy was seven years old and her aunt gave her a chocolate mold with the ingredients to make heart shaped suckers. Her aunt told her to make the suckers...

CEO and President of Edoc Named 1st Runner-up for Cincinnati SCORE Client of the Year

CEO and President Jim Mullaney first met with his SCORE counselor, Ralph Lowenstein, in 1998 seeking advice about how to grow his business. Initial work focused on creating a business plan to guide future growth. However, Ralph and Jim covered a...

Cliffs Lake and Shrimp Ranch

Owned and operated by Nathan Hogue and Waite Frye, Cliff's Lake is a pay lake and bait house business located in Scioto County. Although business was good, Nathan and Waite foresaw the need to diversify their business into a multiple...

Vertical Horizons One, Inc.

Daily Reporter 03/10/06. After serving nearly 20 years in the military, David Tibbs established Vertical Horizons One, Inc. in 2001 to perform studies and analyses for government and other nonprofit organizations. Tibbs, chairman and chief...

Once Again SBA Helps Dreams Come True!

With help from The Small Business Administration, my wife and I were able to achieve both of our dreams. My wife, Dr. Paige Phillips, had been working as an associate veterinarian for three years and as a relief veterinarian for two years. Her...

Sallie's Wholesale & Construction Inc.

Daily Reporter 3/10/06 As a young child in a family of 25 brothers and sisters, Sallie Sylvester had the ambition to excel and develop her life to the fullest, she says. She turned that drive intoa career in 1977 when she started her first...

Quilt Beginnings Inc.

The Daily Reporter 3/10/06. Eight years ago in August, Cathy Daum was quilting as a hobby and buying supplies at Columbus' three quilting specialty stores when she suddenly found that her choices of stores had dwindled to one. One of the...

Creating More Jobs for Ohio Residence One Step at A Time

Rite Track, Inc. is an Ohio S-Corporation with more than 130 worldwide employees (60 at the headquarters location). The company is a leading supplier of automated wafer processing equipment for the semiconductor, thin film head, and MEMS...

Excel Management

Nearly twenty years ago, Curtis Jewell was struggling to make a living and develop a career when he came to a life-changing realization: "I realized that I was selling 'stuff' that I didn't believe in and if I had to live by this...

Information Works, Inc.

Joe Vesco, President of Information Works, Inc. of Columbus is the Ohio Small business Person of the Year for 2004. Joe was selected above all other candidates based on the following criteria: staying power, growth in number of employees,...

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The Painted Lady, LLC

Shortly after Joyce Whitaker, and her husband, moved back to Ohio from New York, Joyce decided to open a small gift gallery and antique store. Joyce came from a corporate background, but needed some oversight and advice in marketing and business...

Creative Shapes

Creative Shapes is an Ohio Subchapter S Corporation founded in 1986. The company is a manufacturer of custom designed cabinets and office furniture products. The company differentiates itself from the competition by providing the highest quality...

Designed Solutions Group, Inc.

Roxann Patrick opened Designed Solutions Group, Inc. in February 1994 as a sole proprietorship. Working as an independent contractor, she designed marketing and advertising materials for adverting agencies, design studios and a number of small...