The premier honor for small businesses in the Salt Lake area. Categories include Community Service, Entrepreneurial Success, Minority Small Business,
Small Business of the Year, and Presidents Award for Excellence.
2010
Small Business Awards
Penna Powers Brian Haynes - Small Business of the Year
Penna Powers Brian Haynes plays an important role in the Downtown Rising vision, developing and hosting the Downtown Rising Web site. Downtown Rising is a business-led, regional visioning effort created to define a common future for downtown Salt Lake City. Penna Powers Brian Haynes is a full-service advertising, public relations, interactive and public involvement agency providing clients with strategic counsel and relevant creative that delivers results.
New Media Strategists - Entrepreneurial Success Award New Media Strategists is a regional communications agency with experience in public relations, marketing, community relations, social marketing, crisis communications and media placement. New Media Strategists has cultivated effective working relationships with local, state, regional and national news media outlets to ensure effective and accurate placement of press stories with the right messages for the right audiences.
Hale Centre Theatre - Community Service Award
Hale Centre Theatre is one of the premier community theatres in the United States, presenting more than 400 productions before a quarter of a million patrons annually. Now in its 25th year, the theatre features extraordinary talent, inventive sets, state-of-the-art staging and custom lighting, scenery and costumes. Founded in 1947 by Ruth and Nathan Hale, Hale Centre Theatre is one of the nation’s longest running center-state theatres.
Red Iguana - Minority-Owned Business Award The name Red Iguana has become synonymous with quality Mexican cuisine. The Cardenas Family has owned restaurants in Salt Lake City since 1965 and still uses the original family recipes. The Red Iguana has expanded to include a very active catering business and a second location with a third under construction in City Creek Center Food Court. The Red Iguana has become perhaps the most awarded, and most widely-recognized restaurant in Utah with a national and international following.