Success stories
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Veteran-Owned company Achieves Business Growth and Alabama Recognition during National Small Business Week
Kevin Long is the owner and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ethic Tech, LLC, a Huntsville-based small business that is both Native American 8(a) and Veteran-Owned. During Kevin's service as an...
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Alabama Goods Crafting Success One Local Treasure at a Time
Customers from all over the world seeking a small piece of Alabama need not look further than Alabama Goods, a locally owned retail store chain that specializes in products made only in Alabama...
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Home Remodeling Company CEO finds himself Remodeling his Business with SBA’s T.H.R.I.V.E. Emerging Leaders Reimagined program
Joshua Dean entered the Homebuilding industry in 2004 through furniture making and working in a custom cabinet shop. In 2013, he had a mentor that brought him into his company, Precision Homecrafters...
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Against All Odds, Selma Business Owner Finds Success through Perseverance and is Nationally Recognized as the SBA 2023 Alabama Small Business of the Year
Born in Selma, Alabama, Daryl Thomas was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from an early age with unfavorable prognoses. There were doubts about his ability to walk and speak understandably. After many...
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Birmingham CEO is taking Leadership and Business to the Next Level
Talibah Bayles is a Birmingham, Alabama native, national minority small business advocate, and CEO of TMB Tax & Financial Services, a full-service bookkeeping and tax advisory firm established in 2018...
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Huntsville, Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Brown Precision, Inc. named SBA’s 2022 Alabama Small Business Person of the Year
For more than 50 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has celebrated National Small Business Week (NSBW), which recognizes the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and...
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North Alabama Family-Owned Cotton Business received PPP and Continues to Grow Exponentially
Mark Yeager, who owns Red Land Farms started growing cotton in the 1980’s and in 2016, he had teamed up with his daughter, Anna Yeager Brakefield, to form Red Land Cotton, a cotton-based products...
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How securing SBA financing helped the Bottling Plant Event Center get their start and recover from the pandemic
Following a successful career working for nonprofits where Lisa Ditchkoff did case management work, coordinated events and fundraising, she embraced the idea of starting her own event planning...