Market One Awards

Please note: Nominations for 2025 are closed!

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Nominate your favorite local business for

the 2025 “Best New Business” Award!

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We need your help to recognize the best new businesses that model excellent customer service, invest in their employees and simply making Van Buren and Cass better places to live.

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A strong award candidate will:

1. Must have opened their doors between January 1, 2023 and January 1, 2025.
    

2. Must have a local presence, which means that they produce a product or provide a service in Cass or Van Buren County. 
    

3. Must employ a minimum of two people.

   • Business owners do not count as the minimum of two people.

   • Vendors, consignment, investors, or sponsors are not included.
      

4. ​Home-based businesses are not eligible for nomination; the business must have a physical presence within Cass or Van Buren County that exists outside of a residential home. 

   • Business expansions do not qualify.

   • Opening a secondary location does not qualify.

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Nominations will be accepted until March 10, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. 

Two winners will be selected: one from Cass County and one from Van Buren County.
 

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Show your love with a nomination!

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Self-nominations for this award are both accepted and encouraged. Winners will be selected on a number of factors, including the number of high-quality nominations they receive. Businesses should not solicit community members to complete the nomination form with answers that have provided ahead of time; nominations with identical responses will not be accepted.