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2024 Annual Awards Nominees

Awards will be announced at the 2024 Gateway Business Conference and Annual Awards Luncheon in Birmingham, AL. 

The 2024 Award Nominees
 

Class I MBE Supplier of the Year

82's LLC

Atkins & Goolsby, Inc.

BamaClean

Kopri Signs and Graphics

Lemonade Creative Marketing

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Class II MBE Supplier of the Year

Trent Dang dba Happy Guest Promotions

Falls Facility Services, Inc. 

Andrew Zow & Associates, Inc. 

Evans Agency, Inc.

Landrum Janitorial SVC, LLC

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Class III MBE Supplier of the Year

Chacon Steel Erectors, Inc.

Enterprise Staffing, LLC

Chemical Distribution Solutions

NSRW, Inc.

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Class IV MBE Supplier of the Year

Brewster Procurement Group, Inc

Kaul Glove & Manufacturing Company

Diversity-Vuteq

Georgetown Metal Processing, LLC

APC Construction

Jackson Offshore Operators

Magnolia Automotive Services Group

Systems Automotive Interiors, LLC

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Regional Automotive Prime Supplier of the Year

Systems Electro Coating

Georgetown Metal Processing, LLC

Diversity-Vuteq

Magnolia Automotive

Horizon Services Corporation

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Regional OEM of the Year

Toyota

Nissan

Volkswagon

Honda

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Regional Corporate Member of the Year

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana

CenterPoint Energy

Shipt

Entergy

Protective Life Insurance

Oschner Health 

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Corporate Advocate of the Year

Entergy Rivers Frederick

Ochsner Jean-Marc Villian

Shell Donovan Casanave

Shipt Brittney Smith

Brasfield and Gorrie Jessica McMahan

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Anselmo Rodriguez

Chevron Dave Feldman

Nissan Marcella McCullouch

ExxonMobil Devin Shrank

Toyota Matt Greene

Toyota Ryoko Watanabe

Caesars Shikira Garcia

BP Yvette Moten

CenterPoint Leviticous "Vic" Cleveland

CenterPoint Michael W. Brown

Amazon Scheryl Settle

OXY Tamara Garrett

Tulane University Gina Bertrand

Amazon Traniece Mills

Honda Karl Harris Sr.

Honda Elly Bradford

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​​Corporate Buyer of the Year

Shell - Cole Berthelot

Honda - Paul Lewis

Toyota - Pat Allen

Shell - Brian K. Hall

Entergy - Lakeya Mazant

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National Corporate Member of the Year

Toyota

ExxonMobil

Nissan

Shell

Chevron

BP

Honda

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Supporting Partner of the Year

WBEC South Phala Mire

Birmingham Business Resource Center Bob Dickerson

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Louisiana  Myra Pineda

Louisiana Economic Development Tatiana Bruce

Small Business Administration Joann Lawrence

10K Small Business - New Orleans David Payton

Alabama MBDA Sharon Smith

Louisiana MBDA Charletta Fortson

NOLA Business Alliance Lynette White-Colin

Mississippi MBDA Rose Greer

Birmingham Business Alliance Victor Brown

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