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Tim Hur with Point Honors & Associates Realtors

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Mike Sammond, Tim Hur, Steven Julian

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Tim Hur/Point Honors and Associates Realtors

Point Honors and Associates is a unique real estate firm focused on clients. More than just a simple real estate company, PHA fosters an environment where clients come first and has a motto of “redefining real estate”.

Clients that work with PHA agents dramatically increase the chance for success and a complete sale. Their unique model provides advice from qualified professionals and has grown from the exponential number of referrals. PHA is experienced in residential and commercial aspects of the U.S. market and has significant expertise in the international market, with a concentration in Asia.

PHA is based in Gwinnett County, a location that serves as a doorway to the fastest-growing region in the U.S., as well as the entire country. Tim Hur has also been appointed as the President Liaison to South Korea for the National Association of Realtors for 2013 and 2014, and served as the President of the Atlanta Metro Chapter of the Asian Real Estate Association of America.

Lee Miller and Alan Shirley with PRO OnCall Southeast, Jim Slagle with Parc at Duluth, and James Willard and Kelli Willard with Operation Christmas Child

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Mike Sammond, Jim Slagle, James Willard, Kelli Willard, Lee Miller, Alan Shirley, Steven Julian

Mike Sammond, Jim Slagle, James Willard, Kelli Willard, Lee Miller, Alan Shirley, Steven Julian

Lee Miller & Alan Shirley/PRO OnCall Southeast

Lee Miller & Alan ShirleyPRO OnCall Southeast provides outsourced I.T. support to small and medium businesses in the metro Atlanta area. They maintain and support servers, networks, software, applications and end users. They have a dedicated internal help desk, trained Microsoft engineers, and a world-class ticketing system. They become an extension of your business, making sure that technology is in alignment with your business goals!

Jim Slagle/Parc at Duluth

???????????????????????????????Serving families in Duluth, Johns Creek and Gwinnett’s finest neighborhoods since 2003, Parc at Duluth is the premier lifestyle choice for active seniors. From elegant fine dining in the warm company of friends, to state-of-the-art wellness programs that support vibrant lifestyles, Parc at Duluth affords active seniors the opportunity to live better, now.

Complemented by exceptional service, premium features, engaging activities and compassionate, caring staff. Parc at Duluth offers residents a collection of beautifully-appointed apartment homes designed specifically to enhance their individual lifestyle.

Parc’s senior communities have been compared to fine hotels, where life is a pleasure every day. From dedicated concierge and housekeeping services to exquisite cuisine and state-of-the-art amenities, life at Parc Communities defines the pleasure of living well.

Now, come experience the world of Parc Communities… a gracious community of friends that you will proudly call home.

James & Kelli Willard/Operation Christmas Child

???????????????????????????????Byteworks is a small technology company in Duluth, GA with a big heart… and a big goal. This year they hope to fill 1,000 Operation Christmas Child shoe-box gifts with tangible blessings for children overseas who desperately need something to smile about.

They’re looking forward to a fun, family-friendly event on November 15th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Byteworks office. View their video invitation and learn more about the “critical need items” they are collecting to fill boxes at www.byteworks.com/christmas.

Al Gainey and Stacey Reece with Spherion Staffing, Dr. Destiny Prezzano with Apalachee River Animal Hospital and Sherry Johnson with Rainbow Travel

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Mike Sammond, Stacey Reece, Al Gainey, Dr. Destiny Prezzano, Sherry Johnson

Mike Sammond, Stacey Reece, Al Gainey, Dr. Destiny Prezzano, Sherry Johnson

Al Gainey & Stacey Reece/Spherion Professional Staffing and Recruiting

???????????????????????????????Spherion’s Mission: To help businesses work better, faster and more efficiently by providing them with the right talent at the right time to keep their business productive and successful. To help candidates live the life they love by providing them with fulfilling career opportunities that utilize their unique talents and skills, while driving them on toward greater success.

Locally owned and operated, Spherion Professional Staffing and Recruiting has a deep understanding of the businesses they serve and the unique qualities that make a candidate ideal for their opportunities. Immersed in the community and powered by the latest technologies, they are able to rapidly locate the right talent and recruit them to their clients’ high-priority positions. In so doing, Spherion infuses businesses with the kind of talent that enables them to work better, faster and more productively.

Their local focus translates to expanded career opportunities for candidates and an open door to sought-after companies that entrust Spherion with their workforce initiatives. Job seekers are able to tap into a vast network of business relationships and attract the attention of hiring managers, gaining a real advantage over competing candidates. So, that dream job that fits their career aspirations to a tee is well within their grasp—enabling them to live the life they love!

Dr. Destiny Prezzano/Apalachee River Animal Hospital

???????????????????????????????Apalachee River Animal Hospital specializes in meeting the needs of every pet and client by taking the time to understand the client’s concerns, evaluating the patient and including the client in the treatment plans adapted specifically for their pet. Mayo clinic care with Ritz Carlton customer service is what they strive for. They can meet all of your pet’s needs from well care, sick care, emergency medicine, surgery, diagnostic ultrasound, in-house laboratory, cold laser therapy, as well as grooming and boarding all under one roof.

As a 2014 Gwinnett Daily Post Reader’s Choice Award recipient for best Veterinarian, best Groomer and best Doggie Day Care, Apalachee River Animal Hospital is committed to providing high quality medicine and service at all levels within the practice. They believe that what happens in the exam room is only a small part of making a difference with their patients; it is the entire experience including continued follow-up care they receive after their visit that has the largest impact on their success with their patients.

Sherry Johnson/Rainbow Travel

Sherry Johnson, Rainbow TravelRainbow Travel is a full-service travel consultant. They are mobile which means they will meet you at a convenient location. They handle both leisure and business travel. Just tell them where you’d like to go and they’ll do all the work for you, saving you time, energy, frustrations and hassle! They pride themselves on providing quality and exceptional service. Experience the Rainbow!

Hollie Mann with Gainesville Physical Therapy and Bob Fletcher with Perfetta

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Hollie Mann/Gainesville Physical Therapy

Gainesville Physical Therapy is not your typical physical therapy clinic. At GPT, every patient receives personalized attention during each visit with a hands-on treatment program that has been carefully tailored to their specific needs and physical condition.

Recovery from injury or surgery can be a difficult and trying process. They believe that the supportive relationship they establish with patients, combined with their expertise in the treatment of physical ailments and pain relief, is responsible for the extraordinary outcomes that they routinely see. The GPT facility is fully equipped to provide a comprehensive spectrum of treatment modalities for all orthopedic conditions to improve mobility, strength, balance and pain relief.

Bob Fletcher/Perfetta

Bob Fletcher, PerfettaThe mission of Perfetta is to change the lives of their agents, clients, and customers by providing businesses with the best people, process and solutions to help them build long-term growth and success. They achieve this through:

• Focusing on the customers’ future first
• Embracing entrepreneurial thinking
• Developing the talents of their people
• Maintaining integrity and responsibility in all of their actions

They are committed to creating long-term value for their customers, employees, and the communities they serve. The Perfetta model is based on leveraging the latest technology, training and people to provide an outstanding customer experience for those who matter most: your customers.

J.D. Crowe with Southeast Mortgage and Jim Clark with The APocket Company

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J.D. Crowe/Southeast Mortgage

Southeast Mortgage, Georgia’s largest non-bank lender, is a full-service Georgia mortgage lender offering FHA loans, VA loans and conventional loans. Southeast Mortgage can assist you with your next home loan, or refinance your current primary residence, second home, or investment property. Southeast Mortgage is also licensed in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, which allows them to extend their mortgage lending services to out-of-state clients. They are one of the few Georgia mortgage lenders with processing, underwriting and document preparation all housed in Atlanta to serve you better.

Jim Clark/The APocket Company

The APocket Company is building an app for the business community which will enable its members to build deeper relationships with those most-valued contacts in their network.

 

 

April Rooks with Cornerstone Personal Development, Jim Miskell with Estate Planning of Georgia, Stan Shkilnyi with the Barrow Group, and Art & Denise Picus with Sports Image

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Mike Sammond, April Rooks, Jim Miskell, Denise Picus, Stan Shkilnyi, Art Picus, Steven Julian

Mike Sammond, April Rooks, Jim Miskell, Denise Picus, Stan Shkilnyi, Art Picus, Steven Julian

April Rooks/Cornerstone Personal Development

Cornerstone Personal Development is a team of management professionals providing training and development for business in North Georgia through innovate seminars, events and on-site leadership development programs. Their objective is to assist organizations in developing healthy cultural habits, defining boundaries and expectations that provide structure, improve productivity and help with conflict resolution. By also working with teams and individuals they are able to provide character development to improve work ethics and build life skills. They believe if you wish to build a better company, invest in people.

Jim Miskell/Estate Planning Law Group of Georgia

The Estate Planning Law Group of Georgia provides peace of mind removing undue anxiety for their clients; whether it’s working with families to create an asset protection plan for elder years, or documenting decisions made in advance of a crisis for healthcare and financial wishes, they help families to legally prepare for what the future holds.

 

Stan Shkilnyi/Barrow Group

The Lion is more than a symbol to them. Its strength is at the heart of everything they do. The experience of the Barrow Group in the temp staffing and Film/TV production industries allows them to design an insurance program specifically for your company. Ares of expertise and coverage include workers compensation,  general liability, and group health benefits. Why settle for the help of an “insurance agency” when you can have the Barrow Group’s staffing industry & film production industry experience work for you.

Art Picus & Denise Picus/Sports Image

Sports Image is an all-inclusive sports marketing and event management firm helping schools and grassroots organizations nationwide. Through sponsorship activation, they strive to help organizations get free equipment and funding for their programs. They help to “take the PAY out of PLAY.”

 

Jessica Cork with YKK Corp. of America, Yoshi Domoto with JapanFest, and Sachi Nakato with Nakato Japanese Restaurant

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Jessica Cork/YKK Corp. of America

Located in Marietta, Georgia, YKK Corporation of America is the western hemisphere parent of YKK Corporation’s North and Central America Group. Geographically, this Group consists of 12 dynamic operating companies spread across five time zones covering Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and Colombia, South America. YKK first entered the United States as a zipper distributor in 1960, set up a sales office in Atlanta in 1970, and in 1972 purchased 54 acres in Macon, one of the first Japanese companies to set up operations in Georgia. YKK now employs more than 1,200 Georgians in 3.5 million square feet of manufacturing and office space in Macon, Dublin, Marietta and Austell.

Yoshi Domoto/JapanFest & JASG

JapanFest Weekend, the largest Japanese festival in the Southeast, will be held September 20-21, 2014 at the Gwinnett Convention Center from 10am to 6pm on Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday. Japan is the number one foreign investor in Georgia and JapanFest celebrates the special economic and cultural bond Japan and Georgia share together.

 

Sachi Nakato/Nakato Japanese Restaurant

Nakato is the longest running Japanese Restaurant in Atlanta. Nakato is third generation family owned and operated, and has been serving Atlanta since 1972.

 

 

Dr. Ron Perry with Gwinnett Urgent Care and Dr. Tara Perry with Suwanee Station Dentistry

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Dr. Ron Perry/Gwinnett Urgent Care

???????????????????????????????Gwinnett Urgent Care is your ER alternative, run by Dr. Ronald Perry. Open Monday-Friday 8am to 8pm and 10-6 on Saturday and Sunday, they provide urgent pediatric and adult care for the Suwanee community. Gwinnett Urgent Care is proud of its modern, comfortable office in Suwanee, conveniently located on Peachtree Industrial Blvd.

Dr. Ron Perry is a board certified Emergency Room physician whose expert care is delivered with a gentle manner. The goal of Dr. Perry and his staff is to provide the most efficient, effective healthcare service for you and your loved ones. When you’re feeling ill and/or in pain, the last thing you want is to deal with uncomfortable and inferior service.
They also have a certified therapy dog (Ruckus) on site who many of our patients ask to see each time they return!

Dr. Tara Perry/Suwanee Station Dentistry

???????????????????????????????Suwanee Station Dentistry has been providing excellence in dental care to the Suwanee, Johns Creek and Duluth, GA communities for many years. Dr. Tara Perry is dedicated to patient care and comfort, and has the knowledge and experience you can trust with your family’s dental heath.

Our family-oriented office provides all aspects of general and restorative dentistry, including:

  • Cleanings and periodontal maintenance
  • Implants, crowns, and dentures
  • Pediatric dentistry
  • Cosmetic treatments including teeth bonding and teeth whitening
  • Sleep apnea treatment
  • TMJ/TMD therapy
  • Sedation dentistry

 

 

Justin Knott and Kelley Durfee with INTREPY

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Justin Knott & Kelley Durfee/INTREPY

???????????????????????????????With the changing landscape of marketing, especially in the health care industry, many believe a more adaptive approach is necessary to generate new revenues for practices. INTREPY effectively harnesses a combination of referral marketing, social media, PR and philanthropy to improve on existing revenue streams in addition to creating new ones.

INTREPY varies from traditional healthcare marketing companies because they established relationships with general practice physicians to increase their client’s referral networks. When a family practice or internal medicine doctor choses a specialist in your field to refer to, they make sure you are the one they choose.

???????????????????????????????INTREPY offers its clients effective social media strategies to fit their needs and goals, not only increasing brand awareness and organic Google search results, but allowing providers to strategically target the perfect demographic for their practice in a highly interactive way.

While INTREPY is focused in the healthcare field, they offer their services to other facets of the business world. They believe their skills translate well to varying businesses/industries and social media is universal. They look forward to building a stronger, more lucrative business for you!

Judy Young Doering & Julie Amerson with Noble Village Senior Living

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Judy Young Doering & Julie Amerson/Noble Village Senior Living

Noble Village Senior Living is a privately, locally family-owned development company that’s been in business over twenty years and specializes in building, owning and operating senior living communities. These communities provide a continuum of care, from independent living cottages and homes, to independent living apartment homes, to licensed assisted living and memory care. Noble Village Senior Living has built several communities in metro Atlanta including Johns Creek and Suwanee, and are currently building a new community in Peachtree Corners. They currently own and operate Noble Village at Sugarloaf in Suwanee and plan to open the new community Noble Village at Spalding in Peachtree Corners in the Spring of 2015.