1997 C.W. Post Family Business of the
Year Awards
The Center for Family Business at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
is proud to announce the winners of the Family Business of the Year Awards:
Category I: Fewer than 50 employees
Winner: Anthony's World of Floors, Port Washington, NY,
full-service floor covering business offering commercial and residential
sales and installation and maintenance
Category II: 50-250 employees
Winner: Integrated Systems Group, Hauppauge, NY, installs and services
corporate information systems
Category III: More than 250 employees
Winner: FALA Direct Marketing, Melville, NY, provides direct mail
communication services
Owners, their families and employees were recognized at a ceremony held
on June 25 at Milleridge Cottage House in Jericho. Now in its second year
the Family Business of the Year awards program emphasizes the positive contributions
made by family-owned firms to the community and Long Island's economy. In
addition to business success, winners showed positive family/business linkage,
multi-generational family business involvement, innovative business practices
or strategies, and contributions to industry and the local community. Nominations
are judged by a panel consisting of principal family businesses and Center
for Family Business board members.
There were also four finalists for the Family Business of the Year awards:
Delta Funding Corporation of Woodbury, a specialty consumer finance company;
Goldis Financial Group of Garden City, a full-service financial firm; Action
Machined Products, Inc. of Copiague, a versatile machining facility that
offers precision solutions for machining needs; and Beck Office Furniture
of Mineola, the largest retailer of office furnishings in the New York Metropolitan
area.
"By initiating these awards and issuing them on an annual basis, we
focus attention on successful family businesses as positive examples of
private enterprise and social responsibility that benefit our communities,
our state and our society," said C.W. Post Professor Owen Smith, director
of the Center for Family Business.
"The ceremony was a perfect tribute to family businesses of Long Island,"
said Dr. Nishan Najarian, dean of the Long Island University School of Continuing
Studies and one of the founders of the Center for Family Businesses. "We
will keep the momentum going until next year, when we honor another distinguished
group of people." Corporate sponsors of the Center for Family Business
are Coopers & Lybrand, one of the Big Six accounting firms; MassMutual,
one of the nation's premier mutual life insurance companies; Farrell, Fritz,
P.C., one of Long Island's leading law firms; and Chase Manhattan Bank,
one of the largest banking organizations in the nation.
The Center for Family Business was the first of its kind on Long Island.
It was founded in 1994 by the School of Continuing Studies at the C.W. Post
Campus of Long Island University. This not-for-profit Center provides an
educational forum in which owners, families and workers of family businesses
can explore problems that are unique to them as well as exchange ideas with
other family business owners. The CFB's educational programs, which include
seminars and round-table discussions, explore such topics as family relationships,
family traditions and values, issues of control, as well as particularly
sensitive topics such as family conflicts and compensation for spouses,
in-laws and siblings.
For more information call the Center for Family Business at (516) 299-2236.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail cwpostpr@aurora.liunet.edu |
