NEW BEDFORD – Perfect Pizza Inc., a Domino’s Pizza franchisee that has two locations in the city, has won the 2009 Greater New Bedford Small Business of the Year Award.
The award was presented by the New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce and BankFive at the Chamber’s Good Morning SouthCoast business event on May 13. It was accepted by Perfect Pizza owner Nelson Hockert-Lotz.
Hockert-Lotz founded Perfect Pizza in 1984 when he built the first Domino’s on the South Coast on Kempton Street in New Bedford, according to the Chamber. He built a second location on Rockdale Avenue four years later.
The Chamber said it chose to honor Hockert-Lotz not only for his business success but also because of Perfect Pizza’s support for community groups, including SMILES Mentoring, Operation Clean Sweep, the HOPE Collaborative, the SouthCoast Education Compact, and the Greater New Bedford Youth Council.
Domino’s Pizza, founded in 1960 and based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has 8,729 corporate and franchised stores worldwide.
The other small businesses nominated for the award were Cyd’s Creative Kitchen of New Bedford, Medium Studio of New Bedford, No Problemo of New Bedford, Oceans 18 of New Bedford, The Old Company Store of Wareham, Partners Village Store of Westport, The Pasta House of Fairhaven, Regal House Furniture of New Bedford, The Sea Witch of Fairhaven, and ThinkTech Computers of New Bedford.
The New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1885, is a private nonprofit with nearly 1,000 member businesses in New Bedford, Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Mattapoisett, Marion, Rochester, Wareham and Westport. Additional information is available at NewBedfordChamber.com.
