AIMS, Co. Receives CED Entrepreneurial Excellence Award
(Research Triangle Park, NC, June 19, 2002) - CED (Council
for Entrepreneurial Development) has announced that AIMS,
Co. has been selected to receive the "Capital Connection
Company of the Year" award as part of their Entrepreneurial
Excellence Program.
The 16th annual Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards was held
at the Entertainment and Sports Arena on June 18, 2002,
where the entrepreneurial community and families gathered
to celebrate their achievements and success through out
this past year. An evening full of awards presentations,
excellent foods, and games was shared by over 500 people,
from CEO's to friends of the entrepreneurial excellence
award winners.
AIMS, Co. was honored with this award for being selected
by BMW as their preferred solution provider for body shop
quality management for American manufacturing operations,
and citation by BMW's ISO auditor as the best automotive
quality management system in the industry. AIMS, Co. has
also participated as a FastTrac Tech, STREAK, and Capital
Connection Lunch Presenter.
"The Capital Connection Program has provided AIMS
with the information and resources to enable our transition
to our next major company growth phases based on profitable
product centered solution deployment" says Perry Smith,
president at AIMS, Co.
About AIMS, Co.
AIMS (Advanced Integrated Manufacturing Solutions, Co.
- a North Carolina Corporation founded in 1997) is a leading
provider of distributed collaborative manufacturing management
solutions that dramatically improve productivity and profitability
for their growing list of premier global clients, including
BMW, JDSUniphase, , Nomacorc LLC, and Abbott Laboratories.
AIMS products improve both top line and bottom line results
for their customers, resulting in an average payback of
just three months. Top line improvements averaging 20% result
from increased throughput, decreased cycle time, decreased
product introduction time, and strategic sales improvement
through facilitating implementation of make-to-order and
other lean manufacturing strategies. Bottom line improvements
in targeted areas reaching 30% result from decreased paperwork,
reduced scrap and rework, and increased productivity at
all levels of the manufacturing enterprise. Please visit
us at www.aimsco.com.
About CED
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in
Research Triangle Park, NC, is a private, non-profit organization
formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact
companies in the greater Research Triangle region. CED provides
education, mentoring, and capital formation resources to
new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual
conferences, seminars, workshops, and monthly programs on
entrepreneurial management and finance. CED is the largest
entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with
more than 5,000 members representing 1,200 entrepreneurial
companies, financiers and professional firms. http://www.cednc.org
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