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March 19, 2010 - 7:30 AM to 9:45 AM
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2009 Annual Awards
January 8, 2009
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ll vastly different beginnings, yet these three remarkable individuals – and one company
steeped in family values – have all discovered success through determination, sincerity, hard work
and perhaps most important of all, the ability to give back. This is the Business to Business
Annual Awards, a distinguished recognition of the Atlanta business leaders who are setting examples
for all of us. Click on the subheads below to jump to an individual article, or scroll down to link
to the articles listed in the related content section.
Philanthropist
Of The Year: Doug Hertz
“We all have an obligation to help. Atlanta is blessed with many CEOs who feel a civic
responsibility to help make Atlanta a better place to live. The safer and better educated Atlanta
is, the better it is for all of us.”
– Doug Hertz, United Distributors, Inc.
Atlanta Legend: Jesse
Hill
“I have to really thank the people of Atlanta – white and black – for giving me the
opportunities I had. I received a lot of honors. One of the things I’m happy about is to be
respected as a person who volunteered a lot.”
– Jesse Hill
Company
Of The Year: Chick-fil-A
“We’re not aggressive; we plan. We know several years in advance how many restaurants we’ll be
able to open. A lot of it is determined by cash, and how much we have based on how many happy
customers are coming in and eating with us. Our customers are our venture capital source for
growing our business, and it’s a very, very stable way to grow the business.”
– Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A
CEO
Of The Year: Phil Kent, Chairman and CEO, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
We’ve had these strategies for years, particularly in the last year or two. We have really
executed well at every level of the company. And a lot of companies can have great strategy, but if
you don’t have the team that can really execute it everyday, television is an everyday business. We
do T.V. 101 everyday.”
– Phil Kent, Turner Broadcasting System
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