Awards

awards1Supplier of the Year 2010
Dewhit, Inc., was recently honored as a Supplier of the Year by the Carolinas Minority Supplier Development Council (MSDC) at the 2010 Business Opportunity Conference.   The event recognized progress and achievement by minority businesses in honoring individuals and corporations at the awards program held in Greenville, South Carolina.  DeWhit was selected as the top supplier within the Tier Two ($1-10 million in revenues) category.

The 3-day event drew top executives from leading organizations across the Carolinas, including Boeing, Volvo, Denny’s, SCANA, Clemson, Enterprise Holdings, Progress Energy, Bank of America, Sonoco, Duke Energy, BMW, BI-LO, Wells Fargo, Michelin, Mack Trucks, Merck, Food Lion, Turner Construction, Skanska, GE Healthcare, Milliken, Johnson Controls, SAS, First Citizens, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Dell, Coca Cola, Shaw, Staples, Lockheed Martin, Time Warner, Compass Group/Food Buy, Greenville Hospital System, Novant Health, Verizon, and GE Energy.

“We are particularly proud to honor individuals and organizations who understand that promoting and supporting the development of minority business enterprises (MBEs) not only helps the business community, but is essential to regional competitiveness,” said Ray Lattimore, CEO of Marketplace Staffing of Greenville, and one of the host organizations for the CMSDC’s Business Opportunity Conference.

 

gsabusinessDeWhit, Inc., a leading southeastern-based janitorial services company, was recently featured in GSABusiness – a business news source that reaches more than 40,000 readers in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson market.

The DeWhit story tells of the business legacy that continues to live on from the late Buck Mickel, former chairman of Daniel International Corporation and later president of Fluor Corporation, through DeWhit's president and owner, Charles Whitner.