The recent inclusion of a small business banquet for KOSBE, the Kingsport Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, has been a great success under KOSBE's first full-time executive director, Aundrea Wilcox.
Like the small business awards of the past, several winners in established categories were announced.
This year, though, the judges also awarded a new award, the Innovation Award, to a company I helped in the past define its strategy enhance product marketing.
From the official press release:
The new Innovation Award was presented to RLH JR Inc a/k/a Patient Scrubs (Nancy Hart, et al.). In April 2003, Nancy Hart’s husband was admitted to the hospital for heart surgery. It was there that she observed the medical staff and other patients, and discovered a need for a new level of function in patient attire that also offered more dignity. She stitched her first Patient Scrubs prototype for her husband to wear as an alternative to the traditional hospital gown. After many iterations, she has developed a product that is delighting her customers at their time of greatest need.
It's great to see two startups I've been heavily involved with—KOSBE and PatientScrubs—come in to their own. Both are run by determined visionaries who have a passion for what they do.
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