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King County Executive Dow Constantine celebrated the importance and the accomplishments of small businesses throughout the county by presenting the first annual King County Executive’s Small Business Awards at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.

Nominees included 125 King County businesses, submitted by local jurisdictions, which then were narrowed down to three finalists in each category before Wednesday’s awards ceremony. Qualifying businesses for the seven award categories had to have less than 50 employees and been in business for at least three years.

General Biodiesel was honored as the category winner for “Green/Sustainable Small Business of the Year.”  CEO Yale Wong said, “I could not be more pleased to accept this award on behalf of everyone at General Biodiesel and for all of the food-serving GreenPartners™ to our business which produce the used cooking oil that we transform into local jobs and low-carbon vehicle fuel.”