Omaha’s richly diverse community is made even more so by its local businesses. Community members providing unique services and quality products is one of the aspects of the city that makes it such a great place to live and work.
A perfect example of this include the Nebraska Business Development Center, which has been part of the Omaha community and University of Nebraska Omaha since 1977. This unique company offers free, confidential consulting to any business owner or entrepreneur wanting to start, develop, or transition their company. A business whose business is helping other businesses—that is truly a sight to see in the capitalist society in which we live, and only serves to enrich the local culture.
Along with great partnerships comes great leaders and visionaries. Sidney E. Meridith of Security Equipment Inc. was recently inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame for his exemplified commitment to the community and being a business leader for over half a century. Coming from small-town Boone, Nebraska, Meridith grew up watching his family run small businesses and learned the value of good customer service, a pillar of the SEi company that has been invaluable to Meridith since the beginning of the company in 1969.
Companies such as these represent the history of Omaha, standing the test of time, while The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) represents the future. UNMC’s Center for Heart and Vascular Research was recently awarded more than $11.8 million by the National Institutes of Health to create a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on finding answers for heart and vascular diseases. With this tremendously helpful aid for research, scientists are able to get closer to finding solutions to heart problems and issues like limited availability of healthy hearts for transplants.
All these stories and more enrich the pages of this B2B issue. I hope they inspire you as much as they did me, as well as garner respect for entrepreneurs and the Omaha community in general.
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