VMA’s chairman of the board for the 2021-2022 year is Ron Warren, president and chief operating officer of Bray International Inc., based out of Houston.

The award, celebrating the entrepreneurial success of Baylor Alumni, was announced during late November's 2021 Baylor Impact Awards celebration.

The online platform provides educational and professional training courses through an automated learning process.

ASPE seeks expert industry speakers to present 75-minute, nonproprietary technical sessions that address current industry trends and technologies at next year's event in Indianapolis, Sept. 16–21.     

The company says it will use the new financing to hire 50 employees throughout the next two years.

The company recently hosted Congressman Lloyd Smucker of the 11th District at its new 350,000-square-foot distribution center and corporate headquarters.

Kenny Pickett has won the 2021 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, presented annually by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation and A. O. Smith Corp., to the nation’s top quarterback who best exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement.

State Senator Walter F. Timilty (D-Milton) nominated the 82-year-old South Shore design and manufacturing company for the award and presented the citation to company leaders and employees at the Symmons headquarters and manufacturing facility.

With this milestone, the Indianapolis facility becomes the first site of parent company Carrier Global Corp., a leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, to achieve this designation.

After a year of extraordinary growth despite extraordinary challenges, AD members and supplier partners made the most of their time together at the 2021 Decorative Brands Division annual meeting Nov. 15-18.