Big winners: Business Plan Contest awards announced

We told you here previously about the second annual Northeast Wisconsin Business Plan Contest, hosted by the Northeast Wisconsin Regional Economic Development Partnership (NEWREP) and sponsored in part by the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center at UW-Green Bay. Contest administrator and SBDC at UW-Green Bay director Ryan Kauth shared the results of that event with us as they were announced Friday (Jan. 30). The third place prize of $1,000 was awarded to Stacy Parish of Boomtown LLC of Neenah. Second place, a $2,000 award, went to A Very Special Place of Little Chute, Executive Director Lorraine Yarbrough and Board President Lisa Schneider. And the first place award of $5,000 was presented to Mike and Beth Pelland of Princeton Audio LLC of Princeton. Read more about the winners and the contest.