The Austin Chamber of Commerce announces the finalists for the Eighth Annual Greater Austin Business Awards. Winners will be announced at the award ceremony on Wednesday, August 27, 6-9 p.m. at the Hilton Austin, 500 East Fourth Street. Created in 2001, the Greater Austin Business Awards has grown to over 1,000 attendees each year and has sold out the past two years. With sponsorship from the Austin-American Statesman, this year’s theme is “We Built This City”, and will honor Austin area businesses who helped build our great and unique city and made Austin what it is today.

Categories include Community Service, Customer Service, Education, Environment, Innovation and Take On Traffic. Each of these categories will recognize a small, medium, large and non-profit business winner. In addition, Freescale Semiconductor, one of the title sponsors, will honor the most outstanding nonprofit organization with the $5,000 Freescale Not-For-Profit Award. A total of 24 winners will be announced on this prestigious evening.

Please join us in congratulating these finalists:

COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Small — Round Rock Express, Antenora Architects, Key Staff
Medium — David Weekley Homes, Sicola Martin, Dave & Buster's Austin
Large — Spansion, H.E.B., ClearChannel Radio
Non-Profit — Meals on Wheels and More, The Long Center for the Performing Arts, Downtown Austin Alliance

CUSTOMER SERVICE
Small — Buffington Mortgage, Commercial Flooring Systems, Hotlink, Incorporated
Medium — Bebo, Inc., Spawglass, Acadian Ambulance Service Inc.
Large — Heart Hospital of Austin, Four Seasons Hotel, Austin Regional Clinic
Non-Profit — Meals on Wheels and More, City of Austin Small Business Development Program, LeTourneau University

EDUCATION
Small — Risas y Sonrisas L.L.C., Univision, EDUSPARK, Inc.
Medium — WaMu, University of Phoenix, Virginia College at Austin
Large — Applied Materials, Inc., A+ Federal Credit Union, Silicon Laboratories Inc.
Non-Profit — Austin Partners in Education, Austin Community College, Hispanic Scholarship Consortium

ENVIRONMENT
Small — Greenling Organic Delivery, Habitat Suites, Office Furniture Now
Medium — Intertech Flooring, Balcones Recycling, Green Mountain Energy Company
Large — Wells Fargo, IBM, Waste Management
Non-Profit — Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, Keep Austin Beautiful, Goodwill Industries of Central TX

INNOVATION
Small — Get The Picture, Yellow Cab, Fallbrook Technologies, Inc.
Medium — David Weekley Homes, HelioVolt Corporation, BuildASign.com
Large — Luminex, HomeAway.com, Active Power
Non-Profit — Meals on Wheels and More, Rawson-Saunders, St. Edward's University

TAKE ON TRAFFIC
Small/Medium — Cambridge Systematics, Inc., CP & Y Inc., Green Mountain Energy
Large — Farmers Insurance, Advanced Micro Devices, Spansion
Non-Profit — Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), Capital Area Transportation Coalition, Austin Car Share

FREESCALE NOT-FOR-PROFIT
Capital Area Food Bank of Texas, Caritas of Austin, Habitat for Humanity