Helen K. Diemer Recognized As Top 100 MBE® Award Winner
WILL RECEIVE AWARD AT OCTOBER 30TH CEREMONY
Baltimore, Maryland (10/23/13) – Helen K. Diemer, The Lighting Practice, has been selected to receive the distinguished 2013 Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award. The Top 100 MBE® ceremony is designed to acknowledge and pay tribute to outstanding women and minority business owners in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the District of Columbia. The Top 100 MBE® Award is given to enterprising women and minority entrepreneurs that fuel the region’s economy through their innovation, sacrifices, and dedication. These business owners are living their dreams and making significant contributions to their clients, professions, industries and communities.
The awards ceremony is scheduled during Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s Supplier Diversity and Inclusion Week, on Wednesday, October 30th at 5:30 p.m. at the War Memorial located 101 Gay Street in downtown Baltimore.
“I am proud to be recognized as a Top 100 MBE Award Winner,” said Helen. “I am grateful to my family, employees and mentors for my business success. People can see the impact of my values by the way I live my life and the work that I do.”
The Lighting Practice was founded in 1989. The 24-year-old firm, WBE/DBE certified, is a leader in lighting design, specializing in sustainable lighting for public spaces, corporate, retail, healthcare, hospitality, and education environments. Its talented designers have created lighting strategies for a variety of projects throughout the US and abroad. The firm’s work includes the Empire State Building Historic Lobby Restoration and Tower Lighting Replacement (New York, NY); GSK’s Philadelphia Navy Yard Headquarters and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA); Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maryland Institute College of Art’s Brown Center and 1111 Light Street Mixed-use Development (Baltimore, MD).
This year’s ceremony host organizations are the City of Baltimore; Caesars Entertainment and Horseshoe Casino-Baltimore; BGE; Southwest Airlines; University of Maryland University College; and greiBO media.
“The winners of this year’s Top 100 MBE Award exemplifies excellence and stability”, said Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of the City of Baltimore. “Helen Diemer represents the goals and aspirations of many entrepreneurs across the mid-Atlantic region.”
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