Emi Obrero<\/a><\/p>\nBetter Business Bureau announced the 20 Central California company finalists for their 2026 BBB Torch Awards for Ethics on July 27, 2026. BBB is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening marketplace ethics and recognizing trustworthy companies.<\/p>\n
The BBB Torch Awards for Ethics is one of the highest accolades the organization grants businesses and is meant to emphasize outstanding ethics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finalists earned their position by submitting a comprehensive application and completing an in-person interview where they proved their commitment to ethics and trust in four categories: Character, Culture, Customers and Community.<\/p>\n
Finalists fell into either of the six categories based on the number of employees their business had and included the following companies.<\/p>\n
Category 1: 1-5 employees<\/p>\n
Linguistica Interpreting and Translation, LLC
\nArsenal Well Drilling Inc.
\nCosmo Health Resolution
\nJC Transport Refrigeration<\/p>\n
Category 2: 6-15 employees<\/p>\n
Miles, Sears & Eanni
\nIn the Light Urns
\nBakersfield Plumbing Company Inc.<\/p>\n
Category 3: 16-30 employees<\/p>\n
SunMade Smart Roofing Solar & Electric
\nMonarch Home Services
\nIntegrity Business Solutions
\nHansen\u2019s Moving & Storage Inc.<\/p>\n
Category 4: 31-50 employees<\/p>\n
Expo Party Rentals
\nCan Do Crew Plumbing, Heating & AC
\nZaks Security One<\/p>\n
Category 5: 51-100 employees<\/p>\n
Quality Home Services
\nSan Mar Properties
\nAM\/PM Medical Transportation Company<\/p>\n
Category 6: 100+ employees<\/p>\n
Lee\u2019s Air, Plumbing & Heating
\nClawson Honda of Fresno
\nSolar Negotiators<\/p>\n
One winner from each category will be recognized at the signature event taking place on Sept. 23, at Pardini\u2019s in Fresno. The complete list of finalists can be found at https:\/\/www.bbb.org\/local\/1126\/bbb-foundations\/torch-awards-for-ethics<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Better Business Bureau building in Fresno published on July 28, 2026 – 2:40 PMWritten by Emi Obrero…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-416203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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