Memphis Commercial Appeal - Business News

May 21, 2009

Monogram Food Solutions, parent company to King Cotton and Circle B Meats, won the coveted Memphis Business Journal 2009 Small Businesses of the Year Award in the category for businesses with 61 to 350 employees.

The award was accepted by Monogram CEO, Karl Schledwitz, last evening at the Peabody during a star-studded celebration!

(Leonard Kaye, Andrew Simmons, Karl Schledwitz, Ben Bryant and Wes Jackson)

“We are honored to be selected for this award because it gives outside reinforcement to all we have been doing to build a strong company, with strong brands, a deep and talented team and a focus on building on of the country’s premier producers, marketers and licensees of meat products,” said Karl Schledwitz, Chairman and CEO of Monogram.

“Our goal is excellence at every level and at every one of our facilities across the country.”

For 29 years the Memphis Business Journal has recognized business excellence through its Small Business Awards.
Nominations for the awards are taken from the Memphis business community. MBJ’s editorial staff then reviews the nominations and selects five finalists in each of three company size based categories.

A panel of independent judges from the business community then makes the final award decisions based on site visits, interview with finalists and research into business performance. Each nominee was featured in a 3 minute clip that explained the nuts and bolts of their business.
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