Warrior Group President and CEO Receives Awards and New Company Ranking
Wins Include Entrepreneur Of The Year, NAWBO/Wells Fargo Trailblazer Award, and ICIC Inner City 100 DALLAS--(Business Wire)-- Warrior Group and Gail Warrior-Lawrence, its president and CEO, have captured three new top honors. Warrior Group is based in DeSoto, Texas, and is a multi-million dollar provider of premier construction services focusing on construction management for conventional and permanent modular construction. "I am extremely honored on behalf of Warrior Group to receive these esteemed awards and company ranking," said Gail Warrior-Lawrence. "This level of success could not be achieved without my dedicated and experienced team, as they have been instrumental in positioning Warrior for its phenomenal growth." Entrepreneur of the Year Award Gail Warrior-Lawrence, president and CEO of DeSoto-based Warrior Group, was recently honored with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award in the Real Estate/Hospitality/Construction category for the Southwest Area North region. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award is one of the world`s most prestigious business awards, honoring exceptional entrepreneurs who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. The winners were selected by an independent judging panel made up of regional business, academic and community leaders and recognized at a gala event at the Majestic Theater in Dallas. NAWBO/Wells Fargo Trailblazer Award Warrior-Lawrence also recently received the National Association of Women Business Owners/Wells Fargo Trailblazer Award which included a cash grant of $5,000 to Heart of a Warrior Charitable Foundation - the nonprofit organization she founded to provide educational-enrichment programs for underserved children. Since 2002, the NAWBO/Wells Fargo Trailblazer Award honors three women entrepreneurs in the U.S. for their talent, drive and entrepreneurial spirit and recognizes "women business owners who have successfully developed unique products, services or delivery channels in their businesses." The winners were announced at the 2009 Women`s Business Conference in Chicago. ICIC Inner City 100 Fastest Growing Companies Warrior Group was listed on the 2009 ICIC Inner City 100 - a ranking of the fastest-growing inner city companies in the country. The program is a partnership between the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a national, not-for-profit organization, and BusinessWeek SmallBiz magazine to spotlight and support growing companies in urban areas and to highlight the importance of a healthy economy in developing healthy urban communities. The winners were determined based on revenue growth over a five-year period and recently announced at a gala event in Boston. Warrior Group adds these recent recognitions to a growing list of awards and rankings the company has received over the years. For more information about these honors, please visit http://www.ey.com/US/en/About-us/Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year/SWAN_article_winners, http://nawbo.org/content_6270.cfm, and/or www.icic.org. About Warrior Group Warrior Group, based in DeSoto, Texas, is a multi-million dollar provider of premier construction services focusing on construction management for conventional and permanent modular construction. The 12-year old company is one of the largest SBA, minority- and woman-owned construction services companies with more than 1,000 successfully completed projects to its credit an impressive roster of private and public sector clients across the United States. Warrior is dedicated to building long-term customer relationships by continually surpassing expectations and providing superior customer service, effective construction management and turnkey solutions in the modular and general construction industry. Warrior has offices in Fort Worth and DeSoto, Texas, and is planning to open additional offices in Atlanta and San Antonio. For more information, please visit http://www.warrior-group.net. Warrior Group Paula Nourse, 972-228-9955, Ext. 535 pnourse@warrior-group.net Copyright Business Wire 2009
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