The Whatcom Chamber of Commerce & Industry has just announced the recipients of its yearly business awards, with Louis Auto Glass, an auto glass repair and replacement shop, being chosen to receive the Large Business of the Year award.
The auto glass repair company is one of the oldest businesses in Bellingham, having been founded well over 8 decades ago. This gives it a special status in the local community, which knows the Louis Auto Glass name well, with generations having grown up with it. The business is also a private, family-owned one, run and owned by the Adelsteins of Bellingham.
To be selected for an award from the Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce & Industry is a prestigious sort of acknowledgement, and even though this is only the 7th year of the awards, the Bellingham business community is already quite aware of the prestige of being named a recipient of one of the honours.
There are typically 6 awards to be given out in all. These would be the awards for Large Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year, Man of the Year, Woman of the Year, Non-Profit of the Year, and Green Business of the Year. Each award has a local sponsor. For example, the Large Business of the Year award was sponsored by Puget Sound Energy (PSE) this year, and the Small Business of the Year award was sponsored by Comcast. The Man of the Year award was under the sponsorship of People’s Bank, while the Woman of the Year award’s sponsorship went to Bellingham Alive!, with the Non-Profit of the Year award being sponsored by MeTV-KVOS and the Green Business of the Year award sponsored by Nooksack River Casino.
The finalists for the awards this year were as follows: for the Large Business of the Year award, Little Caesars, Louis Auto Glass, Bellingham Cold Storage, Birch Equipment Rental & Sales, and Whatcom Land Title; for Small Business of the Year, Mt. Baker Harley Davidson, The Upfront Theater, K&K Industries, NautiGirl Brands, and Sunset Music DJ; for Non-Profit of the Year, Big Brothers Big Sisters of NW Wa; and for Green Business of the Year, Parberry’s Northwest Recycling. As mentioned before Large Business of the Year was won by the auto glass repair business, Small Business of the Year by K&K Industries of Bellingham, and the latter two awards by the only finalists named for them. The Man of the Year was William Maberry and the Woman of the Year was Harriet Spanel.
The Louis Auto Glass repair and services shop is also offering residential glass services, and is also a conscientious member of the local community in Bellingham, having donated as much as $200,000 to various philanthropic causes in the last year alone.
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