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Lewisburg company to win award in May

The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania has announced the winners of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Innovation Awards, according to a news release.

Awards will be presented to seven recipients, companies or individuals who have achieved business success through Ben Franklin funding and assistance, have helped others to achieve success, or have improved their businesses through innovation. Each award recipient exemplifies outstanding achievement in that particular category.

“Chief Troublemaker” Dustin Garis will present the keynote, Disruptive Innovation, at the annual event, which attracted more than 450 business and community leaders last year.

Core Business Solutions Inc., Lewisburg, earned the Entrepreneurial Achievement award, which will be presented to Scott V. Dawson, president and Michael J. Dawson, vice president.

The award, the news release said, goes to “the company that best exemplifies the quintessential entrepreneurial spirit: a combination of ingenuity, hard work, and innovation that has resulted in the creation of a successful and growing business venture.”

Core Business Solutions helps small companies become ISO 9001 certified as quickly and easily as possible. ISO 9001 is an internationally recognized quality management system for which certification is required of suppliers by many major purchasers, the news release said. Core Business’ online approach and customized expert consulting have helped its clients achieve certification in four or fewer months with a 100 percent success rate, the news release said.

Brothers Mike and Scott Dawson co-founded Core Business Solutions and Ben Franklin provided the young company with business plan and sales process assistance, seed investments, and Solutions Network support. With updates to the ISO standards recently released, companies need to recertify, creating an even stronger demand for the company’s offerings. Core Business has been growing 30-40 percent, more than tripling revenue over the last three years, and now employs 18 and supports 12 service subcontractors, according to the news release.

Other awards to be presented include Incubator Graduate, Product Innovation, Innovative Application of Technology Manufacturing Achievement and Partnership.

Winners will be honored at the Ben Franklin iXchange event, 5 p.m. May 9 at the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University, Bethlehem.

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