Three area companies win regional business plan competition

August 31, 2008

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Three Quincy Entrepreneurship Center client companies were among the four winners of a regional business plan competition sponsored by the Western Illinois Entrepreneurship Network.

Receiving the awards were God, Family & Country, a manufacturer of specialized hay handling equipment in Pittsfield; ETC Computerland, a computer sales and service company in Quincy; and Green Line Armour, a startup company in Quincy that will manufacture products for the logistics industry from recycled material.

The Quincy Entrepreneurship Center served 26 clients and secured approximately $1.7 million in financing for clients who created 31 jobs during its past fiscal year.

The center serves Adams, Brown and Pike counties and is part of the Illinois Entrepreneurship Network.

IEN is the umbrella for all Illinois’ small business services, and helps cut through the tangle of resources to help businesses achieve their goals.

The Quincy center was cosponsor of the Guerrilla Marketing workshop that was attended by more than 100 area business people earlier this year.

A fall seminar on international trade is being planned.

For more information about the Quincy Entrepreneurship Center, contact Charles Bell at 223-4313 or charlesb@gredf.org, or visit www.gredf.org.