Maitland / Winter Springs, Fla. --- BDG Construction Services in Maitland, a graduate of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in Winter Springs, recently received the National Business Incubation Association’s 2012 Outstanding Incubator Graduate Client of the Year Award in the Non-Technology Category.
The award was presented at the NBIA’s recent international conference in Atlanta, according to Esther Vargas-Davis, site manager for the UCF Business Incubation Program.
A commercial general contractor that provides retail, medical, office and public construction services throughout Florida, BDG Construction Services joined the UCF Business Incubator in Winter Springs in 2009.
With the help of the incubator staff, founders Jay Brown and Kevin Guffee took on a larger business development role, actively networking with business and community leaders across the region to make people more aware of the company and its services. The effort paid off.
“BDG’s reputation as a client-focused contractor capable of managing all aspects of a construction project grew and we began winning bids,” said co-founder Guffee.
By the time BDG graduated from the incubator, their revenues had quadrupled.
“The goal of business incubation is to help accelerate the growth of viable companies in order to generate more economic activity and more local jobs,” said Gordon Hogan, director of the UCF Business Incubation Program.
Many of our client companies focus on technology sectors, and technology is usually the most exciting aspect to business incubation, but non-technology companies generate a great deal of economic growth in most communities,” Hogan said.
About BDG Construction Services, LLC
BDG Construction Services, LLC is a Florida based general contractor that builds and renovates a variety of commercial construction projects including retail shopping centers, restaurants, office spaces, and medical facilities.
About the National Business Incubation Association
With more than 7,000 business incubators worldwide, the NBIA – the world's leading organization in advancing business incubation – estimates that in 2005 alone, North American incubators assisted more than 27,000 start-up companies that provided full-time employment for more than 100,000 workers and generated annual revenue of more than $17 billion, according.
About the UCF Business Incubation Program
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 200 emerging companies (including more than 134 current clients) create over $363 million in annual total economic output and more than 3,120 new jobs (taking direct and indirect and induced impact into account) with an average salary of $59,000. With ten facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Business Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development among the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Apopka, the City of Winter Springs, the City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, Osceola County, the City of Kissimmee, City of St. Cloud, Volusia County and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information about the Program and its clients and graduates, please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu and UCFBIP on Facebook, on www.facebook.com/ucf4bip.
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