St. Croix EDC: Seeks nominations for businesses of the year

Contact: Bill Rubin/Nita Dusek, St. Croix EDC, 715-381-4383

St. Croix EDC is now accepting nominations for its 2015 Business of the Year awards program.

Categories include:

Emerging Business of the Year (a start-up business that has operated in St. Croix County for five or fewer years);

Small Business of the Year (29 or fewer employees); and

Business of the Year (30 or more employees).

A nomination form and guidelines can be obtained from the EDC at (715) 381-4383 or by email, nita@stcroixedc.com , or online at http://www.stcroixedc.com/content/nominations-2015-business-year.

Individuals may nominate a company in any of the categories, or a business may place their company’s name in nomination.

The winners will be announced in January and the companies will be honored at a banquet on Thursday, February 25, 2016. The location is pending.

The 2014 winner were Magma Flooring LLC (City of River Falls), Emerging Business of the Year; 45th Parallel Spirits, Inc. (City of New Richmond, Small Business of the Year; and Vital Plastics, Inc. (Village of Baldwin), Business of the Year.

For more information, contact William Rubin or Nita Dusek at St. Croix EDC, (715) 381-4383 or nita@stcroixedc.com or bill@stcroixedc.com.