Florida’s top performing Black-owned businesses turned-out by the hundreds to attend the recently held, sold-out Black Business Beacons event, hosted by the Black Business Investment Fund (BBIF).
Held during Black History Month, the Black Business Beacons Brunch event celebrated and saluted “Beacons: Our humble beginnings, our endless possibilities.” As defined, a BBIF Black Business Beacon is a trailblazing business with a strong foundation, a commitment to excellence and a commitment to the community as well as civically engaged and socially responsible.
Over 250 business owners, entrepreneurs, procurement specialists, executives and professionals convened in Orlando from across the State of Florida. With a massive statewide response to this event, the BBIF honored 50 Black businesses at the event from the following counties: Miami-Dade, West Palm Beach, Brevard, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake, Volusia, Leon, Dual, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Gadsden.
The honorees’ combined gross revenue for 2012 was well over $300 million. The honored businesses also account for an employee base of over 500 Florida residents. Florida has the third-highest number of Black-owned businesses in the nation – out ranked only by New York and Georgia with 187,000 Black business in the state according to the 2007 census report.
The BBIF Black Business Beacons honorees were: ACY Contractors, LLC, Orange; AlphaGraphics – Lake Mary, Seminole; Angel Products, Seminole; BFA Environmental, Orange; Built to Prosper Companies, Orange; C & C Pharmacy, Orange; Cake in the City Bakery, Orange; Caribbean Superstore, Orange; Celebs Corner Kitchen, Duval; CH Publishing, Orange; Choice Security and Investigations, Inc, Orange; CMJ Resource & Development Group, Orlando; Construct Two Group, Orange; DARR Solutions, Orange; Event Grabber, Orange; GrassrootsMovies, Orange; HD Painting & Restoration , Orange; HNM Logistics, Orange; Horus Construction, Hillsborough; HZ Construction, Inc., Orange; IMDC Engineering , Orange; IROK Construction, Polk; Jazz Tastings Jazz & Wine Bar, Orange; Law Office of Marva Davis, Esq., Gadsden; Life Worth Living Pharmacy, Orange; MK Waterproofing, Inc., Orange; MNH Weddings & Designs, LLC, Gadsden; Mobile Labs Express, Orange; Morehouse Realty, Orange; Oley’s Kitchen Restaurant, Orange; PA Wallace Associates, Orange; R L Burns Inc., Orange; Rhodes + Brito Architects, Inc., Orange; RYSE Magazine , Orange; Sam T’s Plumbing, Seminole; Sewing House Inc, Duval; Simmons Pediatrics, Duval; Siplin Law Firm, Orange; Soul Food Festival, Duval; Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc., Leon; Sterling Silver Scape and Sod, Inc., Osceola; TEC-Link, Hillsborough; The BRS Group, Inc., Orange; The Gregory Law Firm, Duval; The Handfield Firm, Miami-Dade; The Matthews Automotive Group, Volusia; Tobler Construction, Inc., Lee; Ver-Val Enterprises Inc., Okaloosa; WBQ Design & Engineering, Inc., Orange; West Orlando News, Orange; and Wyche & Associates , Seminole. Guardian Care Rehab & Nursing Center was honored as a Community Asset.
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