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Business: Custom design and manufacture of corporate recognition awards, plus a commercial framing service for poster art that clients sell via retail home decoration catalogs.
Founded: 2002
Headquarters: Golden Valley
Website: www.creativeawards.net
Executives: Founder John Zieska
Employees: 22
2007 revenue: $2.1 million
Quote: "I started with a Pollyanna-ish business plan that had no basis in reality." -- Zieska
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