Corporate Golf Wins ``Hottie'' Award From San Francisco Business Times.Business/Sports Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2001 Corporate Golf, the Pro Shop to America's Leading Corporations(SM), was honored as a "Small Wonder" in the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Business Times "Hot Tech" awards. The awards recognize Bay Area companies for excellence in Internet technology or strategy. The blue-ribbon panel Blue-Ribbon Panel (sometimes called a Blue Ribbon Commission) is an informal term generally used to describe a group of exceptional persons appointed to investigate or study a given question. of eight judges included Hal Varian Hal Ronald Varian is a central academic in the economics of information technology and the information economy. Varian's assertion that "Technology changes. Economic laws do not." introduces a series of efforts in applying general economic principles to the information economy. , Dean of the School of Information Technology at UC Berkeley, and Heidi Roizen Heidi Roizen (born 1958 in Stanford, California) is a Silicon Valley executive and venture capitalist. She graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in English and earned her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business three years , managing director of Softbank Venture Capital. Winners ranged from venerable names like Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
Corporate Golf is a pro shop exclusively serving corporate buyers for golf events and other logo gift needs. The company first established its Web site, www.corporate-golf.com, in 1997 as a way to communicate product and company news to tech-savvy clients, and to serve as an on-line brochure. The site has been expanded to showcase key products, with links to on-line catalogs of many of its top golf brands. The management, however, has chosen not to offer on-line purchasing. "Our clients are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. guidance from real people with a thorough knowledge of the products, rather than to just place an order without human interaction," said Nina Renaud, Corporate Golf's owner. "They come to us for our expertise and service, as well as our selection and pricing." On the Hot Tech awards, she said, "San Francisco is the cradle of the Internet, so just being nominated for using it to attract and benefit clients was a huge honor. We were thrilled beyond belief to win in such illustrious company." Corporate Golf offers golf event planning Event planning is the process of planning a festival, ceremony, competition, party, or convention. Event planning includes budgeting, establishing date and alternate date (rain date), selecting and reserving the event site, acquiring permits, and coordinating transportation and management services, as well as apparel, accessories, and equipment. Its brands are sold in the shops at top golf clubs and resorts, and at major golf events like the U.S. Open and Ryder Cup matches. These include Ashworth, Bobby Jones, Callaway Golf, Cutter & Buck, Roche Golf, 1879 by Joey Rodolfo, Sunderland of Scotland, and LinksKeeper. The company was established in 1995, and is a certified woman-owned business. Corporate Golf is based in San Francisco. The San Francisco Business Times is owned by American City Business Journals, America's premier publisher of local business newspapers. |
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