Awards / Certifications
Winner of the 2020 Business First Best Places to Work and recognized as a premier organization with several outstanding characteristics of a great workplace.
The Inc. 5000 lists the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the nation.
Central Ohio’s fastest 50 growing privately held companies.
Most admired executives in Central Ohio.
Recognize the top executives of the 50 smartest companies in the Central Ohio region for their ability to effectively build and lead successful organizations.
Administered by Columbus Business First, recognizes inclusive organizations and individuals in Central Ohio. The program highlights excellence in encouraging diversity in age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race and religion at local workplaces.
The Ohio Asian Awards allows the Asian American Commerce Group of Columbus to recognize and celebrate outstanding local business, community, and elected leaders for their contribution to the vitality and success of the Asian American Community in Ohio.
The Columbus Chamber Small Business Leader Award is well-known and respected in the Columbus community for recognizing a diverse range of qualities such as leadership, business excellence and contributions to the community.
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards or EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards is an award sponsored by Ernst & Young in recognition of entrepreneurship. … The Entrepreneur of the Year Awards have been awarded to over 10,000 people since 1986, averaging 400 recipients annually.
Recognizes central Ohio organizations for their employee benefits and community involvement.
Business First honors companies doing good in the community and charitable efforts.
The Pillar Award embraces a broad definition of community service. It may consist of charitable giving, volunteerism, pro bono work or other forms of giving back. Service may be limited to a single organization or cause, or spread across numerous organizations and causes
Celebrates business achievements and innovations.
The ACQ Global Awards set out to recognize the achievements of those who are responding most successfully to the demands being placed on them in the new post-recession business environment.
Innovation Excellence Award is given to recognize outstanding innovation in any manufactured product, component or service in the brush industry in any given year
Recognizes excellence from all sectors and offers the opportunity for leading professionals and companies who have stood out for being results driven, innovative, and service focused to showcase their expertise, and highlight developments in their industry.
The awards aim to recognize and reward business excellence across all sectors, private, public and charity.
Recognized for outstanding Fast-Growth Business
Given to organizations with proven reliability, expertise, global reach and have shown proven supply chain management solutions.
The World Business Awards are an annual all-encompassing awards program which recognizes organizations that demonstrate the core values of business innovation, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, experience management, business sustainability, product and technology innovation via a set of comprehensive award categories.
CV Magazine’s annual Corporate Excellence Awards are handpicked by our dedicated research team based purely on the comprehensive analysis of both qualitative and quantitative research during the past 12 months. The awards are designed to celebrate excellence in a number of core industries across the business landscape, highlighting those who have truly gone above and beyond to success in their endeavors, continually innovating, growing and improving.
Recognizes organizations who offer the best in class in the technology landscape.
Nationally certified by the Ohio Minority Supplier Development Council.
MES, Inc. has been ISO 9001:2015 Certified since 2009.