PBN fêtes Machtley, R.I. firms

Welcome to this, Providence Business News’ eighth celebration of the winners of our annual Business Excellence Awards.

For more than 20 years, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has served the people of Rhode Island. He has championed health care reform, stood up for the environment, helped solve fiscal crises and investigated public corruption. Now, he is putting his experience as a seasoned prosecutor and policymaker to work for Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate.

Anyone who visited Bryant College in the early 1990s saw a school badly in need of a new direction.

Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but it has provided big opportunities for Cox Communications.

Ask the partners at Gates, Leighton & Associates Inc. (GLA), to explain how their company has prospered through the current economic slowdown, and they will point to lessons from an earlier slump.

South County Hospital offers the broad range of facilities and services one would expect in this day and age, including surgery, rehabilitation and even home-health services through visiting nurses and South County Quality Care. But a big part of its mission is to promote wellness in the community.

Relocating to another country, even under the best of circumstances, is a traumatic experience. Fleeing your native land with nothing but the clothes on your back is another story. Yet every year thousands of refugees looking for a place to call home arrive in the United States with little more than hope. But thanks to organizations like the International Institute of Rhode Island (IIRI) in Providence, they are not alone.

St. John Stone in North Kingstown is a shining example of a successful entrepreneurial endeavor. In its first three years, the company has expanded far beyond its Rhode Island headquarters to Las Vegas and China, and has grown its annual revenue 760 percent.

The Providence Marriott Downtown is just off Interstate 95, within walking distance of many popular attractions.

WJAR NBC 10 News Sunrise and News at Noon Anchor Frank Coletta is once again the master of ceremonies for the PBN Business Excellence Awards.

PROVIDENCE – U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline were keynote speakers last night as Providence Business News honored the winners of its seventh annual Business Excellence Awards. Business Leadership honors went to Paul J. Choquette Jr., left, chairman of Gilbane Inc.

The following companies and individuals were the PBN’s Business Excellence Award honorees in the first six years of the BEA program. The descriptions that follow date back to the time of the original awards.