CommuniTech.Net Wins the ``Mr K'' Award.Business Editors & Technology Writers KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2001 On May 11, 2001, at the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce 2001 Small Business Awards Luncheon, CommuniTech.Net won the "Mr K" Award. The prestigious "Mr K" award is given in memory of Ewing Marion Kauffman, one of Kansas City's most successful and influential entrepreneurs. In 1950, Mr. Kauffman founded Marion Laboratories, Inc., a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm. He guided his Kansas City-based company from gross sales Gross Sales A measure of overall sales that isn't adjusted for customer discounts or returns, calculated simply by adding all sales invoices, and not including operating expenses, cost of goods sold, payment of taxes, or any other charge. of $36,000 and a net profit of $1,000 the first year to become a diversified health care products company that exceeded $3 billion in annual sales. In 1989, Marion merged with Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals to become Marion Merrell Dow, Inc., where Mr. Kauffman served as chairman emeritus until 1993. The "Mr K" award is the highest award given to any small business in the greater Kansas City area. After being selected as a Top 10 Small Business of the Year out of 107 candidates, each Top 10 finalist attends several public events and presents their company to the judges at a site visitation. The panel of 10 judges bases their decision on the company's growth, financial performance, unique product innovations, competitive advantage within their business, business philosophy, marketing and sales strategy, employee empowerment programs and philanthropic endeavors. With dot-coms littering the landscape, the success of CommuniTech.Net might be considered surprising. But the pair behind the company started with a plan. Distant cousins Distant Cousins were an English band from Manchester. Some journalists grouped them with the Madchester scene, though the music was a blend of soul and pop. The band's singer was Doreen Edwards. Former member of The Smirks Neil Fitzpatrick played guitar. Gabriel Murphy Gabriel Murphy (born December 23, 1975 in Saint Joseph, Missouri) is an American entrepreneur residing in Leawood, Kansas. He is a 1999 graduate of Cornell University, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Marketing from the College of and Bryan Heitman started the company in 1997. Heitman was still in high school, and Murphy was at Cornell. Murphy immediately signed up for a course in entrepreneurship requiring a full-fledged business plan. "I killed two birds with one stone," he says, "passing and laying the foundation for CommuniTech.Net. We executed the plan over the next three years." They supplemented their youth with a group of experienced advisors. Today, CommuniTech.Net is one of the most successful Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. companies in the world, serving over 23,000 clients in over 140 countries. In Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 , the company's revenues exceeded $6.6 million. Started in Heitman's basement, the company now occupies five floors of the MainMark building in downtown Kansas City Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the central part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, is defined by the Kansas City, Missouri Downtown Council and City Hall officials as the area located between the Missouri River in the North, to 31st Street in the South; and from the . The founders base their success on their credo "reliability before profitability," recognizing that if their system is flawed, customers will not remain long. CommuniTech.Net is a worldwide leader in Web hosting services targeting small-market enterprise. Their growth comes from their fully automated online business. They offer shared server hosting, dedicated hosting Typically refers to a single Web site that is hosted on a stand-alone server. See dedicated server. for clients who want to lease an entire server, and co-location hosting, which simply means Communitech.Net houses a client's own equipment in their Internet Data. |
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