For Immediate Release - Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

For Immediate Release
September 20, 2010
For More Information Contact:
Ashley Horn, Director of Communications
431-8623 (office) or 586-2367 (cell)
Minority Business Week Celebrated with Awards Ceremony
To celebrate the nationally-recognized Minority Business Week, the Mobile Area
Chamber of Commerce and the Alabama Minority Business Enterprise Center will recognize
local minority businesses and welcome two national minority leaders to the Gulf Coast.
ThyssenKrupp Stainless and ThyssenKrupp Steel will be recognized for its minority
business advocacy;
Jamie Foster Brown, owner/publisher of Sister2Sister magazine, will moderate a
roundtable discussion on marketing; and
Dr. Timothy J. Winters, pastor of the Bayview Baptist Church in San Diego, will be the
awards dinner keynote speaker.
Million Dollar Roundtable
Join local companies as they share marketing successes in print, television, radio and
social media at the Million Dollar Roundtable Thursday, Sept. 30 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Mt.
Hebron Church Family Life Center, 2531 Berkley Ave. The panel will feature Jamie Foster
Brown, owner/publisher of Sister2Sister magazine.
The cost is $20 for Chamber/ MBEC members and $25 for potential members.
Awards Dinner
The Minority Business Week Awards Dinner will recognize the accomplishments of
outstanding minority-owned businesses through a presentation of Eagle Awards, Minority
Enterprise Development Awards and the Minority Business Advocate Award. The event will be
Thursday, Sept. 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Mt. Hebron Church Family Life Center, 2531
Berkley Ave. Dr. Timothy J. Winters, pastor of Bayview Baptist Church in San Diego, and
nationally-acclaimed commentator on entrepreneurial excellence for minority-owned businesses
will be the keynote speaker.
The cost to attend is $50 for Chamber/MBEC members or $500 for a table of 10, and $55
for potential members or $550 for a table of 10. There is no charge for individuals purchasing
Award Dinner tickets to attend the Million Dollar Roundtable.
For reservations, contact Brenda Rembert at 431-8607 or
[email protected].
Presenting sponsor for both events is Mobile Area Water & Sewer System.
Other sponsors are gold sponsors: AT&T, Alabama Power Co., Bay Security Co. LLC;
and Wells Fargo; silver sponsors: Parker Adult Foster Homes Inc. and Volkert & Associates
Inc.; and bronze sponsors: Bishop State Community College, CorroMetrics, GA West & Co.,
Mobile Housing Board, Mobile Gas and Regions Bank.
The winners are as follows:
Eagle Award Winners
Chiropractic Works PC
Type of Business: Professional Services
Chief: Dr. Be Phetsinorath
Address: 3263 Demotropolis Road Suite 10 in
Mobile
Telephone: 665-4999
Employee: 2
Web site: www.chiroworksmobile.com
Spoon Professional Landscape Irrigation Inc.
Type of Business: Landscape
Chief: Timothy J. Witherspoon
Address: 3640 St. Stephens Road in Eight Mile
Telephone: 680-5934
Employee: 4
Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Award Winners
BBT Consulting
Type of Business: Information Technology
Chief: Wayne Green
Address: 2663 Valleydale Road in Birmingham
Telephone: 334-233-3482
Employee: 10
Web site: N/A
Golden Stevedoring Co. Inc.
Type of Business: Stevedoring
Chief: Edgard Gonzalez
Address: 1400 Alabama State Docks
Telephone: 433-3726
Employee: 100
Action Resources
Type of Business: Hazardous Waste
Chief: Charles Corpening
Address: 40 County Road 517 in Hanceville, Ala.
Telephone: 256-352-2689
Employee: 225
Web site: www.action-resources.com
Minority Business Advocate (MBA) Award Winners
ThyssenKrupp Stainless USA
Type of Business: Stainless Steel manufacturer
Chief: Dr. Ulrich Albrecht-Frueh
Address: P.O. Box 13000 in Calvert, Ala.
Telephone: 251-829-3600
Web site: www.thyssenkruppnewusplant.com
ThyssenKrupp Steel USA
Type of Business: Steel manufacturer
Chief: Christoph Lackinger
Address: P.O. Box 456 in Calvert, Ala.
Telephone: 251-289-3000
Web site: www.thyssenkruppnewusplant.com
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Guest Moderator
Jamie Foster Brown
Jamie Foster Brown is publisher and sole owner of
Sister2Sister magazine. She has won numerous
accolades as a trailblazer in the entertainment
industry earning her a place among the most
prominent black women in entertainment
journalism and her monthly publication a staple
for entertainment industry insiders.
Brown began her career in entertainment in 1979
when she founded the Washington Theater Group, a
service group focusing on theater group sales. Later,
she worked for Black Entertainment Television.
Since her modest beginnings, Brown has proven herself to be more
than just another female journalist. Making the crossover from pop to
politics, she was selected by Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School
of Government Institute of Politics to be its keynote speaker on the effect of
popular music on American culture. Her open moral outrage over
the excessive violence in gangster rap lyrics and its increasing, negative
influence on young people served as the catalyst that began dialogue
between members of Black leadership and music industry moguls.
Brown was honored at the Midwest Radio & Music Association for her
lifelong commitment to enriching the lives of others through her work. The
Support Network also honored her for educating young people through her
magazine and on radio networks. She has also received the Anheuser Busch
Eagle Award as well as the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Award for
Outstanding African-American Women in the 90s.
Brown is a graduate of the University of Stockholm in Stockholm,
Sweden. In 2008, she received a Doctorate in Humane Letters from Bennett
College. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, she currently lives in Maryland
with her husband, Lorenzo Brown, who is an economist and the managing
editor of Sister2Sister magazine. Their two sons, Randy and Russell Brown,
are, respectively, associate publisher and business operations manager for
Sister2Sister.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Timothy J. Winters
Dr. Timothy J. Winters is pastor of the Bayview Baptist Church in
San Diego. This inspirational gospel preacher delivers powerful
Bible-based sermons directed toward “Reaching the Lost, Teaching the
Saved to Serve.” He has done extensive research and conducted numerous
seminars and workshops in the area of Christian money management
(debt-free living), Evangelism and discipleship and church growth.
Winters is a graduate of San Diego City College, United States
International University (U.S.I.U) and Glendale Graduate School of
Theology. He was called to the ministry in 1969, ordained in 1971 and
called to Bayview Baptist Church in June 1973. He received a Doctor
of Ministry from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio in
December 1977. Under his leadership and ministry, Bayview has grown
from a membership of fewer than 60 families that met in a converted
three-bedroom house to a vibrant, thriving and growing congregation of
more than 2,500. The church edifice is now a multi-level, multi-purpose
building that accommodates an audience of 1,200.