Boscobel Marketing Communications of Silver Spring was named Best Overall Company of the Year by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business in the category of Service Businesses Up to 100 Employees in Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations. Also, company president Joyce Bosc was a finalist for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the category of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations.
Choice Hotels International of Silver Spring was named one of the top 50 franchises for minorities by the National Minority Franchising Initiative.
BroadSoft of Gaithersburg won the Best Technological Innovation Award at the Telecoms World Middle East program for its voice-over Internet protocol software.
The following won 2008 Mayor's Business Recognition Awards for "civic leadership and outstanding community service" from the Greater Baltimore Committee and Baltimore Development Corp.: Aramark Corp. for the Operation Protect Community Block Party and Resource Fair; Harrison Development for supporting Change and Growth Enrichment Program, Inc.; KPMG for its local fundraising activities; M&T Bank for its Honor Rows program; National Aquarium for its Henry Hall program; Provident Bank for helping disabled children attend camps for the Muscular Dystrophy Association; Turner Construction for helping the Peanut Shoppe build a new space; and W.W. Grainger for helping the Red Cross of Central Maryland distribute water during a heat advisory.
Civil engineers Loiederman Soltesz Associates of Rockville won a National Award for Smart Growth Achievement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its downtown Silver Spring redevelopment project.
Misti Morningstar, president of Morningstar Design Inc. of Frederick and photographer for the Maryland Ensemble Theatre, won two Silver Communicator Awards from the International Academy of the Visual Arts for poster photos for "Killer Joe" and "Three Penny Opera."
Mountain Oaks Apartments in Front Royal, Va., designed by Zavos Architecture+Design of Frederick, won the 2008 Virginia Housing Award for Best Preservation-Revitalization Effort.
Image One PR Consulting of Rockville won one out of approximately 900 Gold MarCom Awards for the "Excel Beyond the Bell" brand strategy it created for the Montgomery County Collaboration Council for Children, Youth and Families. Image One won in the category of Outstanding Nonprofit Brand Strategy.
GXS of Gaithersburg was named to International Data Group's 2008 InfoWorld 100 for its investment to upgrade and improve the reliability of its Ohio data center operations.
GTM Architects of Bethesda won two awards from the Maryland chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers and Chesapeake Home: first place for Model/Showroom for the Velocity Condominium Sales Trailer and honorable mention for Commercial Interiors for the U.S. headquarters of Dirak Inc. GTM also won a merit award from the Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects for 1001 F St. NW, Washington.
Current Group of Germantown, which provides electric utilities with efficiency systems, was named a Technology Pioneer for 2009 by the World Economic Forum.
The following won 2008 Baltimore Mayor's Business Recognition Awards: Aramark Corp., Harrison Development, KPMG, M&T Bank, the National Aquarium, Provident Bank, Turner Construction Co., the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and W.W. Grainger Inc.
GMV of Madrid, with North American headquarters in Rockville, was named one of the top 21 Spanish companies with the brightest future by international publisher CRF. GMV provides systems and services in aeronautics, banking and finances, space, defense, health, security, transportation, telecommunications, and information technology.
Two portfolio companies from the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business in College Park were among the top five winners in the final round of the National University Startups Competition, held by the nonprofit National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer: Exponential Storage, which took second place, provides network storage products; and Goozex Inc., which took fifth, is a video game trading company.
