Connect Business Magazine

Since 1994: The Magazine for Growing Businesses in Southern Minnesota

BPOY Award

Call for Nominations

Nominations for Business Person of the Year 2011 are OPEN.

Nominate a colleague and see them featured on the cover of Connect Business Magazine’s January 2011 issue. All nominations are confidential.

Nominate by Oct. 1, 2010.

Fill out the entry form below. Two important rules: You can’t nominate yourself; and the nominated person must work and live in either Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Martin, Brown, Watonwan, Waseca, Faribault, Sibley or Nicollet County.

How the winners are selected

For the sixth straight year, a team of MSU College of Business professors, working from Connect Business Magazine reader nominations, chose our Business Person of the Year. They based their unbiased decision on each nominated person’s business results, leadership abilities, community involvement, and character.

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Your Nomination:

Previous Winners:

2010: Pamela J. Year – MRCI

2009: John Finke – HickoryTech

2008: Jeff Thom – All American Foods

2007: Roxie Mell-Brandts – Jensen Transport

2006: Bob Weerts – Blue Valley Sod

2005: Milt Toratti - Riverbend Center for Enterprise Facilitation

2004: Lorin Krueger – Winland Electronics

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