BEAUMONT (KFDM) \u2014 Businesses from all across Southeast Texas competed in different categories for the BBB of Southeast Texas Diamond Awards for Excellence.<\/p>\n
The ceremony, held at the Beaumont Civic Center on Thursday night, featured a production with musicians, dancers and an auctioneer. <\/p>\n
KFDM evening news anchor Kimberly Rusley served as mistress of ceremonies for this first year of the Diamond Awards for Excellence, previously known as the Torch Awards. <\/p>\n
LIST OF WINNERS BY CATEGORY:<\/p>\n
Micro Business: J&J Exterminating<\/p>\n
Small Business: Port Arthur Community Federal Credit Union<\/p>\n
Medium Business: G&G Enterprises<\/p>\n
Large Business: DuGood Federal Credit Union<\/p>\n
Veteran-Owned Business: SETX Trimlight<\/p>\n
Emerging Enterprise: Alpha Products<\/p>\n
Minority-Owned Business: Iron Gate Studios<\/p>\n
Woman of the Year: Katie Celli (Flagship Mailroom)<\/p>\n
Man of the Year: Lashon Proctor (Proctor’s Mortuary) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEAUMONT (KFDM) \u2014 Businesses from all across Southeast Texas competed in different categories for the BBB of Southeast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-329674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}