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International Association for Business Excellence Named A Top Business Award for Small Businesses
The International Association for Business Excellence (IABE) has been named a top business award platform for small businesses in 2026, earning a 9.4/10 BAG Gold rating from Business Award Guide. IABE was recognized for its free application, same-day determinations, accessible City-to-International recognition tiers, Five-Pillar evaluation standard, and digital marketing assets including winner badges, recipient pages and business content.
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, 20th Aug 2026 — The International Association for Business Excellence (IABE) has been named a top award platform for small businesses in 2026, according to an independent evaluation by Business Award Guide (BAG), which awarded IABE a 9.4 out of 10 overall score and BAG Gold designation in its 2026 business award platform rankings.
The recognition positions IABE as the leading business award option for small and mid-sized companies seeking accessible, fast and marketable business recognition.
Read the full Business Award Guide IABE review
According to BAG’s published scorecard, IABE earned a 9.9/10 for Cost & Accessibility, 9.9/10 for Turnaround, 9.5/10 for Marketing Value, 9.4/10 for Reach & Eligibility, and 8.9/10 for Credibility & Judging.
BAG’s overall assessment identifies IABE’s defining advantage as “speed and accessibility,” with the organization offering free applications, same-day approval-or-denial determinations and four recognition levels based on geographic reach.
#1 for Small Business Accessibility
IABE’s model was developed around a simple idea: excellence should not be limited to large corporations or businesses with dedicated awards and marketing departments.
A commercial cleaning company, contractor, engineering firm, real estate company, plumber, roofer, accountant, restaurant, law firm, dentist, software company or other service business can demonstrate excellence without being a multinational corporation.
IABE provides businesses with an opportunity to apply without an application fee and receive a same-day determination under its published process.
Qualified organizations can then select the recognition level appropriate to their reach:
- City Recognition — $75
- Regional Recognition — $150
- National Recognition — $500
- International Recognition — $1,000
This reach-based structure gives businesses an opportunity to pursue recognition at the level where they actually operate.
BAG: IABE Has the Strongest Cost-and-Speed Profile
Business Award Guide’s 2026 scorecard specifically identifies IABE as having the strongest cost-and-speed profile in its evaluated set.
BAG states:
“IABE’s scorecard headline is speed and accessibility.”
The evaluation further notes that applications are free, the determination is same-day, and recognition is available through four reach tiers.
BAG also states that IABE is “built for small and service businesses that need a fast, low-cost credibility asset.”
The 9.4/10 overall score makes IABE the highest-ranked platform in the small-business accessibility lane identified by BAG’s published evaluation.
Five-Pillar Standard
IABE evaluates applicants against a published Five-Pillar Standard:
Digital Presence
Customer Reputation
Operational Standing
Industry Experience
Professional Integrity
The framework allows IABE to evaluate businesses across industries without requiring every company to fit into the same specialized category.
A roofing company may demonstrate excellence through customer reputation and operational performance.
An engineering firm may demonstrate it through professional integrity, experience and operational standing.
A restaurant may demonstrate excellence through reputation, consistency and customer experience.
A technology company may demonstrate it through its digital presence and operational capabilities.
The industries are different. The standard remains consistent.
More Than an Award Certificate
Another factor highlighted by BAG is IABE’s marketing value.
IABE’s recognition model is designed to provide businesses with digital assets that can continue working after the award is issued.
Depending on the recognition and promotional services selected, winners can receive:
- An official certificate
- An embeddable digital winner badge
- A live IABE recipient page
- Winner-focused business content
- Company highlights
- An in-depth business overview
- Links back to the recipient’s website
- Press-release opportunities and distribution
The winner badge can be embedded on a company’s website and linked to its live IABE recipient page, providing customers and prospects with a direct path to information about the recognition.
The recipient page also gives the award a permanent online home rather than leaving the recognition as simply a physical certificate or downloadable image.
Turning Recognition Into Content
For small businesses, one of the most significant benefits of recognition can be the content surrounding the award.
IABE can develop winner-focused content that explains not only what award a company received, but also who the company is and why it earned recognition.
That gives a business another opportunity to communicate its:
- Company history
- Services
- Geographic market
- Customer reputation
- Experience
- Areas of expertise
- Professional approach
- Recognition
The award becomes the catalyst for a larger business story.
IABE can also provide press-release options for businesses that want to formally announce their recognition and distribute the announcement more broadly.
Recognition for Businesses of Every Size
IABE’s approach challenges the idea that meaningful business recognition should be reserved primarily for organizations with large budgets or extensive internal resources.
A small business owner may not have time to complete a lengthy nomination package.
They may not have an employee whose job is preparing award submissions.
They may not want to spend hundreds of dollars simply to enter an award competition with no guarantee of recognition.
And they may not want to wait several months to discover the outcome.
IABE’s free application and same-day determination address those barriers.
The application is free. The determination is fast. The recognition level can correspond to the business’s geographic reach.
Excellence Is Not a Company Size
IABE’s philosophy is that business excellence should not be measured solely by revenue, employee count or corporate scale.
A $500,000 company can have an exceptional reputation.
A $5 million company can operate with extraordinary professionalism.
A local contractor can provide better customer service than a national corporation.
A family-owned restaurant can demonstrate years of operational excellence.
A small engineering firm can deliver outstanding work.
A commercial cleaning company can build a reputation based on reliability and consistency.
The size of the organization does not automatically determine the quality of its operation.
Excellence is a standard, not a dollar amount.
Why IABE Is A Top Business Award for Small Businesses
The BAG evaluation gives IABE particularly strong marks in the areas most relevant to smaller organizations.
9.9/10 — Cost & Accessibility
Businesses can apply without an application fee, while recognition is available through different geographic tiers.
9.9/10 — Turnaround
BAG identifies IABE’s same-day determination as the fastest in its evaluated set.
9.5/10 — Marketing Value
Digital recognition assets, recipient profiles and content opportunities extend the value beyond the certificate itself.
9.4/10 — Reach & Eligibility
IABE provides City, Regional, National and International recognition levels.
8.9/10 — Credibility & Judging
Applications are evaluated against IABE’s published Five-Pillar Standard.
Overall: 9.4/10 — BAG Gold
Together, those scores led Business Award Guide to place IABE at the top of its accessibility-focused business award evaluation.
About the International Association for Business Excellence
The International Association for Business Excellence (IABE) is a business recognition organization that evaluates organizations against its published standards of excellence.
IABE provides recognition across four levels — City, Regional, National and International — and evaluates applicants using Digital Presence, Customer Reputation, Operational Standing, Industry Experience and Professional Integrity.
The organization accepts applications from businesses across industries and company sizes.
Visit the International Association for Business Excellence
Businesses interested in pursuing recognition can submit a free application through IABE.
About Business Award Guide
Business Award Guide evaluates business recognition platforms using a published scoring methodology that considers credibility and judging, cost and accessibility, turnaround, marketing value, and reach and eligibility.
Its August 2026 IABE scorecard awarded the International Association for Business Excellence 9.4/10 and BAG Gold, with individual scores of 8.9 for Credibility & Judging, 9.9 for Cost & Accessibility, 9.9 for Turnaround, 9.5 for Marketing Value and 9.4 for Reach & Eligibility.
Business Award Guide’s IABE Scorecard
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The Shortage Everyone Talks About Is the Wrong One
Georgia, USA, 16th October 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Every few months another report says manufacturing cannot find enough skilled workers. Edmund Dorsz has heard that line for most of his career, and he thinks it skips the actual problem.
“Companies will post for a CNC programmer with five years of experience,” he says, “but they won’t say who is supposed to teach that person the parts of the job that never show up in a manual.”
Dorsz has worked across CAD and CAM systems including Siemens NX, SolidWorks, Mastercam, and CATIA V5. He says the software is rarely the hard part. The hard part is judgment, the kind that comes from someone standing next to a new hire at a machine and explaining why a toolpath that looks fine on screen will chatter on the actual part.
What Gets Lost When Nobody Is Assigned to Teach
Dorsz says the mentorship that used to happen informally, a senior programmer walking a newer one through a setup, has gotten thinner as shops run leaner and schedules get tighter.
“Nobody decided to stop training people,” he says. “It just stopped being anyone’s job in particular, so it happens less.”
He points to a gap he sees often: new programmers who are strong in the software but have never had to explain a toolpath choice to someone running the machine. “You can model a part perfectly and still hand the floor something that’s a headache to cut,” he says. “That’s not a software problem. That’s an experience problem.”
Dorsz owned and ran Accelerated Precision Tooling Company in California before moving into his current role, so he has seen the gap from both sides, as an employer trying to staff a shop and as a programmer trying to get a part right the first time.
Why He Still Makes Time for It
Dorsz says he takes training requests from coworkers seriously, even when it slows down his own week. “If someone asks me to walk through why I set a part up a certain way, I’ll stop and do it,” he says. “It costs me twenty minutes. It can save them a scrapped part later.”
He is careful to draw a line between correcting someone’s work and dismissing it. “I had people do that to me early on, and it didn’t make me better, it just made me quiet,” he says. “I’d rather someone ask a question twice than guess once and be wrong.”
He also pushes back on the idea that patience is a soft skill that does not belong on a shop floor. “Precision work is unforgiving,” he says. “But that doesn’t mean the people doing it have to be. You can hold a tight tolerance and still be easy to work with.”
What He Tells Programmers Starting Out
Dorsz says the advice he gives newer programmers is less about which CAD/CAM system to learn and more about staying curious once they know one. “Get good at your first system, but don’t stop there,” he says. “The programmer who only knows one way to solve a problem runs out of options fast.”
He also tells them not to treat the screen as the whole job. “The part doesn’t live in the software,” he says. “It lives on the machine. Go stand next to it when you can.”
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About Edmund Dorsz
Edmund Dorsz is a CNC programmer and manufacturing engineer based in Newnan, Georgia. He has worked with Siemens NX, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Mastercam, and CATIA V5, and previously owned Accelerated Precision Tooling Company in California. He has been with Clayton International Inc. since January 2025.
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Veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Creed discusses why everyday experiences with people, animals, and household activity matter when families research how a kitten was raised.
Illinois, USA, 16th October 2026, ZEX PR WIRE, Long before a kitten arrives in a new home, it has already spent weeks learning about the world around it. The people it encounters, the animals nearby, and the everyday activity around it all become part of those early experiences.
Dr. Jennifer Creed, a practicing small-animal veterinarian and founder of Midwest Ragdolls in Elburn, Illinois, believes prospective owners should consider that part of a kitten’s background alongside questions about veterinary care and health.
“My kittens are raised by my family and me and are used to being around kids and dogs,” Creed says. “That is simply part of their normal environment from early on.”
For Creed, the point is not that early socialization can guarantee how a cat will behave as an adult. Every kitten is an individual, and many factors can influence temperament. Instead, she encourages families to ask a broader question when researching a breeder: What has everyday life actually looked like for this kitten?
What Does Socialization Mean for a Young Kitten?
Socialization is sometimes treated as a formal training program. In practice, many important experiences can happen through ordinary daily life.
A young kitten may hear people moving through a home, meet different family members, experience routine handling, or notice other animals nearby. These experiences introduce the kitten to situations it may encounter again after joining a new family.
At Midwest Ragdolls, the family-run structure means this exposure is built into the environment in which the kittens are raised. Creed has no employees at the cattery. Her children help with the kittens, and dogs are also part of the environment.
“Veterinary care is important, but raising an animal involves more than what happens during an examination,” Creed says. “You are also looking at the environment that animal experiences during an important period of its early life.”
Why Early Experiences and Temperament Are Not the Same Thing
Creed cautions against assuming that only early socialization creates a predictable personality.
Genetics, individual temperament, later experiences, and the environment in a new home can all shape how a cat behaves.
Ragdoll kittens are bred for a specific temperament. They are friendly , outgoing cats but the environment they are raised in is very important.
That distinction matters for families researching breeders. Statements about kittens being raised around children or other animals can provide useful information about their background, but they should not be interpreted as promises about future behavior.
For Creed, the more practical question is whether kittens have opportunities to experience normal interaction before they leave.
“You cannot promise that every kitten will respond to every situation in exactly the same way,” Creed says. “They have individual personalities. What you can do is start with a very social breed and think carefully about the experiences they have while they are in your care.”
What Should Families Ask About a Kitten’s Early Environment?
When prospective owners speak with a breeder, Creed recommends learning about daily life rather than focusing only on a list of veterinary procedures.
Families can ask where the kittens are raised, who regularly interacts with them, whether they have experience around children or other animals, and what normal activity they encounter. They can also ask how much direct interaction the breeder has with the kittens.
Those questions can provide a more complete picture of the weeks before a kitten joins its new family.
This is particularly relevant because bringing a kitten home represents another major environmental change. New people, unfamiliar rooms, different sounds, and possibly other pets can all arrive at once.
Creed says families should expect adjustment to take time rather than assuming that a well-socialized kitten will immediately feel comfortable in every situation.
Socialization Continues After a Kitten Comes Home
The breeder is responsible for only the beginning of a kitten’s experiences. Once a kitten leaves, its new family must continue that process.
Creed encourages owners to allow kittens to become familiar with a new home gradually. Introductions to unfamiliar people, pets, rooms, and routines do not have to happen all at once. Paying attention to how an individual kitten responds can help families decide when to move forward and when to give the animal more time.
The same principle applies to children and other pets. A kitten having previous experience around children or dogs does not mean every future interaction will automatically be comfortable. New introductions still require supervision, patience, and attention to the animals involved.
That continuing process is one reason Creed believes prospective owners should think about socialization as more than something a breeder completes before a kitten goes home.
“The early weeks matter, but they are only the beginning,” Creed says. “Families continue building on those experiences once the kitten becomes part of their home.”
For Midwest Ragdolls, that beginning takes place within the Creed family’s own environment. More than three decades after the cattery was founded in 1993, kittens are still raised with direct family involvement and regular exposure to children and dogs.
The approach reflects a simple idea: veterinary care provides important information about a kitten’s health, while everyday experiences form another part of its early development. Families researching a kitten can benefit from asking about both.
About Midwest Ragdolls
Midwest Ragdolls is a family-run Ragdoll cattery based in Elburn, Illinois. Founded in 1993 by practicing small-animal veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Creed, Midwest Ragdolls raises purebred Ragdoll kittens for families primarily throughout the Midwest and across the United States.
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One year after opening at the foot of Mount Fuji, the Church of Scientology Mission of Shizuoka marks its first anniversary on October 25, 2026, with courses, seminars and a public display in operation.
Shizuoka, Japan – October 16, 2026 – The Church of Scientology Mission of Shizuoka marks its first anniversary on October 25, 2026, completing one year of operation at its location on Road 75 in Shizuoka City, Japan. The anniversary is the Mission’s first annual milestone since it opened as an Ideal Scientology Mission in October 2025.
Shizuoka City is the capital of Shizuoka Prefecture, located on Honshu, the main island of Japan, between the Pacific coast and the slopes of Mount Fuji. The Mission serves residents of the city and the surrounding region, and is one of the Church of Scientology’s centers in Japan.
Over its first year, the Mission has operated as a center for the introductory services of the Scientology religion. These include Life Improvement Courses on everyday subjects such as marriage, parenting, personal motivation and goal setting; seminars on topics including personal efficiency and the fundamentals of Dianetics and Scientology; and auditing, the religion’s form of spiritual counseling. The Mission also maintains a Public Information Display with multimedia presentations on the beliefs and practices of the Scientology religion and on the life of its Founder. The display is open to visitors.
Scientology Missions are local centers of the Scientology religion that deliver its basic and introductory services. An Ideal Mission is one equipped to provide the full range of those services under one roof. The Shizuoka Mission opened on October 25, 2025, following a dedication ceremony attended by parishioners and guests from across Japan and from overseas, including Taiwan and Australia. The one-year mark follows the Mission’s first full annual cycle of courses, seminars and public access.
At the Mission’s dedication, the Executive Director said: “This Mission represents more than a building. It’s a new starting point.” One year later, the Mission is in regular operation, with courses, seminars and the Public Information Display open to residents of Shizuoka and the surrounding region.
The Church of Scientology Mission of Shizuoka is located on Road 75 in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. More information about the Scientology religion is available at scientology.org.
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