Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence award winner announced

PPi Technologies Group Wins 2019 Florida Sterling Manufacturing Business Excellence Award

Melissa GriffenContributing Editor
Jun 6th, 2019

The Florida Sterling Council and FloridaMakes collaborated on these statewide awards to recognize the state’s high-performing manufacturers. Companies were judged on six criteria categories: leadership, strategic planning, customers, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce and operations. The stakes were down to 33 out of 105 Florida companies. On May 31, 2019, the winners were announced: PPi Technologies Group won first place in the category of Independent Companies with 51-125 employees.

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