Dear Friends,

Small Dog Electronics was named the winner of the 2010 Deane C. Davis Award for the Outstanding Business in Vermont by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce and the Vermont Business Magazine. We are the 21st winner of this award which is named after one of the most beloved Vermont Governors.

I received the award with several members of the Small Dog team at the opening ceremonies of the Vermont Business and Industry Expo. I am so proud of my team and humbled that we won this award. We were finalists along with two other outstanding companies, the Foley companies—a 100 year old Vermont family business—and Green Mountain Power, the state’s 2nd largest electric utility.

We know very well that we could not have achieved this honor without your help and loyalty as customers. We see this award as the ultimate recognition of our commitment to measuring our success by the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. In my acceptance speech, I recognized that this triple bottom line is the norm in Vermont and that it is one of the many ways that Vermont is great for business.

One of the previous winners and a partner in our previous eWaste Recycling Events, Symquest, sent the best congratulatory note. Larry Sudbay wrote: “Savor your well deserved accomplishment. We are proud to be etched in stone with your company.”

I was interviewed by Mark Johnson, the local talk show host for WDEV radio and a Small Dog customer after the award, and he cracked, “what are you gonna win next, Don, the Cy Young award?” It was such an honor for our company and we are proudly displaying our award at our Technology Pavilion at the Expo. We will find a great place to enshrine the big chunk of Vermont granite after the show.