Better Business Bureau Announces
2010 Torch Award Recipients
A recognition program of your BBB’s Center for Character Ethics
May 18, 2010, Columbus, Ohio – Better Business Bureau serving Central Ohio announced the recipients of BBB’s 15th annual Torch Awards for Ethical Enterprising℠. The recipients were honored today at the Torch Award Luncheon, Hyatt Regency Ballroom in downtown Columbus.
Three businesses and one non-profit organization have been selected as recipients of the prestigious 2010 Torch Award.
Recipients of the 2010 Torch Award include: Hetter Heating & Cooling, Lancaster Pollard; Rumpke Consolidated Companies. The Non-Profit category was awarded to Lower Lights Ministries.
Founded in 1994, the national award-winning “educate & recognize” program is the premier public recognition of organizations that intentionally pursue the six TRUST! Principles of EthicalEnterprising. The award embodies the BBB’s mission of advancing marketplace trust.
Central Ohio Torch Award Alumni benefit from ongoing program support and partner with BBB to showcase and share their organization’s best practices to inspire others to join the quest for optimal enterprising. BBB Torch Awards are awarded locally by more than 80 BBBs across the U.S. and Canada and on the international stage by the Council of Better Business Bureaus – the national organization representing the BBB system.
A panel of judges selected these organizations based on the six EthicalEnterprising criteria and demonstrated a high level of trust among their employees, customers and their communities.
"Central Ohio has so many great companies operating with high character” said Kip Morse, President of the Better Business Bureau. "These four Torch Award recipients clearly demonstrated with their entries, superior character on a daily basis, and consistently exceed marketplace standards for ethics in their relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, industry peers and the communities in which they do business.”
BBB of Central Ohio serves Columbus and 21 surrounding counties as a leader in advancing marketplace trust by encouraging best practices, celebrating role models, and denouncing substandard behavior. BBB sees trust as functions of respect, ethics, intent, delivering results and addressing concerns. Businesses and charities that earn BBB Accreditation have agreed to live up to our high standards and principals for trust. BBBs provide free and easily accessible Reliability Reports on businesses, Wise Giving Reports on charities, educational information, objective advice, and dispute resolution of marketplace complaints. The first BBB was founded in 1912, and today a network of 128 local BBBs serve communities across the U.S. and Canada, evaluating and monitoring more than 3 million businesses and charities. Please visit www.bbb.org for more information about BBB.