City Treasurer's Business Competition: Winners Announced

Last Friday, July 17, CCV attended the City Treasurer's Small Business Expo where the winners of the fourth annual City Treasurer's Business Competition were announced. The competition, managed by CCV, gave out $10,000 in cash prizes along with mentoring to the winning companies. The winners represent small businesses throughout the city that represent the diverse industries within Chicago. Below is the list of winners. Click here to learn more about this year's finalists.

Details regarding next year's competition will be announced early 2010. Check back to find out more!

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Winners
First Place, $5,000 & Mentoring
Macondo Columbian Empanadas and Organic Coffee will be a casual, quick-service ethnic food and coffee establishment offering a variety of Colombian empanadas and baked goods, certified “Fair Trade” organic Colombian Coffee, and imported handcrafts from Colombia such as purses, hats, and jewelry. It is being founded by Las Tablas Colombian Steakhouse.

Second Place, $3,500 & Mentoring
Assistive Medical Equipment Corporation is focused on designing, developing and commercializing assistive products to improve efficiency and safety for nurses, caregivers and patients. AMEC’s first product development is a low cost device that reduces injury risks and operating costs when manually transferring patients in hospitals and long term care facilities.

Third Place, $1,500 & Mentoring Urban Enviroscapes was designed around the concept of a sustainable, environmentally-friendly resolution: an interlocking, vegetated green roofing module with a unique sub-irrigation unit. Urban Enviroscapes seeks to make green roofs of any type available to the mass market by having an affordable and efficient solution to the problem of current-day green roofing systems.

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