From healthcare to transportation and from software development to engineering, you’ll notice this year’s Future of Business winners and finalists run the gamut of industries, professions and missions. Though their business may differ, they share a passion to innovate, a drive to solve problems and a willingness to seize opportunity.
We carefully determined the three criteria for this competition to reflect the very foundation of American business. And so the Future of Business Awards are based upon financial performance, community involvement, marketing and product innovation.
These core principles, we believe, are the bedrock of business success—which makes American enterprise so fundamentally different than business and commerce anywhere else in the world.
We at Ingram’s—along with our partners UMB Bank, Deloitte & Touche and KMBZ—would like to salute all organizations that entered the 2006 Future of Business Awards. Just as in business, the field was crowded, competitive and all were highly-qualified. We are honored to recognize those organizations that rose to the top and we are pleased to take part in sponsoring this esteemed competition in the greater Kansas City area.
Truly, these organizations represent all that is right about American business.
2006 Future of Business Award Winners