Awards & Accolades

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

Not Only Do We Know We Have a Great Product, the Experts Think So Too!

• #1; Food Gifts/Retail Sales Category, Best of the Best, Entrepreneur, past 8 years

• Top 20 Home based Franchises, Entrepreneur, past 10 years

• 2004 Executive of the Year, Arkansas Business, 2005

• Bonny LeVine Award for Top Woman in Franchising, International Franchise Association, 2001

• Top 100, International Franchise 100, Commercial News USA, 2002

• Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence Award, 2001

• University of Arkansas Alumni Hall of Fame, 2003

• #17; Top 100 Inner City Business’s in America, INC. Magazine and Harvard Business School, 2000 & 2001

• Ranked in Top 111 Franchises, Entrepreneur, past 8 years

• Income Opportunities Platinum 100, 1998-2002

• Top Businesses to Start Now, Entrepreneur, 2002, 2003

• Top 25 Low Cost Franchises, Entrepreneur, past 6 years

• Top 20 Home based Franchises, Entrepreneur, past 10 years

• #48, Top Fastest Growing Franchises, Entrepreneur, 1997-2004

• #10; America’s Top 44 Global Retail Franchises, Entrepreneur International, 2000

• Chamber of Commerce Spotlight, 2000

• Top 10 Retail/Specialty Franchises in America, Franchise Times

• #77; America’s Top Global Franchises, Entrepreneur, 2001-2004

• CEO Philanthropist, Fortune Small Business, October 2000

• Top 100 Global Franchises, Entrepreneur International, 1999, 2000

• #83; Top 200 Global Franchises, 2000, #44 in 2002

• Top Low-Cost Businesses to Start, Entrepreneur, 2002-2004

• Nominated for Top 500 Business Women in the United States, Working Woman, 1999

• Top 100 Business Women in Arkansas, Arkansas Business, 1999

• Congressional Medal of Merit, 1999

• US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Award, National Winner, 1998

• Small Business Person of the Year, awarded to Margaret McEntire, President/Owner, US Small Business Association, 1998

• Small Business Woman of the Year, awarded to Margaret McEntire, US Small Business Association, 1998

• Small Business Exporter of the Year, awarded to Margaret McEntire, President/Owner, US Small Business Association, 1998

• Ronald Reagan Award, awarded to Margaret McEntire, Outstanding Member of President Bush's Business Advisory Council, 2004

• Arkansas Developmental Finance Authority Board Member, 2003-2004