Your
Better Business Bureau Foundation Serving Northwest Florida is
currently accepting entries for the 2010 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.
The Torch
Award for Marketplace Ethics was created to recognize businesses and charities
that insist on exceptionally high
standards of behavior in dealing with customers, vendors and employees.
BBB
Accreditation is not required to enter; however, applicants must be physically located within BBB|Northwest
Florida’s service area.
BBB board members, BBB Foundation trustees
and other volunteers will conduct an on-site visit for all nominated and
entered businesses and charities. This reduces the amount of paperwork required
of businesses and charities who wish to participate and provides an opportunity
for entrants to showcase the ways they incorporate ethics and integrity into
their business practices.
Along with the Torch Award, BBB Foundation
will award the Customer Service Excellence Award to individuals who go above
and beyond in their customer service activities, as well as the Student Ethics
Scholarship provided to high school students who demonstrate leadership,
community service and overall personal integrity.
The
application deadline for all awards is March
19, 2010. Award recipients will be recognized at a series of luncheons to
be held in May.
For entry
forms and guidelines for completing an entry for any of the awards, please
visit www.nwfl.bbb.org/TorchAward
or call 850.429.0002 or 1.800.729.9226.
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