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UBS Named Finalist for Loudoun Chamber Small Business of the Year

Contact:  John Mizerak   703-444-5555 (office)  

(Leesburg, VA) Unity Business Solutions, formerly Allegra Printing and Imaging of Dulles, has become a finalist as Small Business of the Year for the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce. Each year the Chamber recognizes those small businesses that set examples of achievement and excellence in the local community. The companies are nominated by chamber members with finalists selected by a blue ribbon committee of business leaders and industry experts, who carefully examine over 135 nominations from the best businesses and entrepreneurs that Loudoun County has to offer. Other categories for these awards include: Product of the Year, Service of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Agribusiness of the Year, Home-Based Business of the Year and Retail Business of the Year.

John Mizerak, owner of Unity Business Solutions, opened as a PrintHouse Express Franchise in September of 1987 in the CountrySide area of Sterling. PrintHouse Express operated as an independent printing operation in Leesburg, Reston and Vienna under the ownership of Tom Galloway and Steve Elliott, both long time residents of Loudoun County. The CountrySide location was the first of over 20 PrintHouse Express franchises opened in the Washington DC Metro Area between 1987 and 1994. In 1994, having saturated the Washington printing market, Tom Galloway sold his franchise rights to the nationally known Insty Prints Corporation. Tom went on to Insty-Prints management and the local Washington stores continued to flourish under the new franchise system. In the Spring of 2000, Mizerak moved his print shop to a state-of-the-art facility off of Woodland Road in Sterling. Near the end of 2002, the Insty-Prints franchise was absorbed into a much larger network of print shops, the Allegra Network. Allegra is one of the world’s foremost print and imaging franchises, known for its advanced printing technologies and highly trained consultative sales staff.

Unity Business Solutions will be relocating to the Leesburg area in December, 2007

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• UBS Finalist for Small Business of Year Award
  Each year the Chamber recognizes those small businesses that set examples of achievement and excellence in the local community. The companies are nominated by chamber members with finalists selected by a blue ribbon committee of business leaders and industry experts, who carefully examine over 135 nominations from the best businesses and entrepreneurs that Loudoun County has to offer.