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Buxton President and CEO Tom Buxton Named Finalist for Ernst & Young 2007 Southwest Area Entrepreneur of the Year® Award
Date:
June 19, 2007
Fort Worth, TX – June 19, 2007 – Tom Buxton, president and CEO of the industry-leading customer analytics firm Buxton, has been named a finalist for the Southwest Area Entrepreneur of the Year® Award.
Sponsored by Ernst & Young, the international award program honors entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hard work and perseverance have created and sustained successful, growing business ventures.
“I’m honored to be among this select group of finalists for this esteemed award,” says Buxton. “The Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognizes entrepreneurial spirit, innovation and personal integrity – qualities that we at Buxton strive to achieve every day.”
Buxton started his career at Tandy/RadioShack, and during his two decades with the consumer electronics retailer, RadioShack experienced exponential growth. Buxton founded his company in 1994, and guided the company to reach the top of the customer analytics industry by pioneering the use of psychographics, demographics, drive-time analysis and lifestyle characteristics for research purposes. Buxton’s extensive databases contain consumer data on 116 million households across the United States. This data allows Buxton’s clients to make the best possible strategic business decisions based on who are their customers. In a 2006 article for the retail industry, Retail Traffic recognized Buxton as “a site-selection ace that is forging new ground in advising retailers.”
In recent years, Buxton has expanded its client base to include not only retailers but also municipalities, healthcare organizations and consumer packaged goods manufacturers. Buxton’s clients, numbering over 1,500, are more successful today because of Tom Buxton’s constant focus on innovation, technology and quality client relationships. For his continuing efforts to remain innovative, Buxton was selected as one of the Most Innovative Companies in the 2006 American Business Awards and was named in Fast Company Magazine’s 2005 Fast 50 list of top innovators and technology pioneers.
Since the early stages of the business, Tom has recognized that employees drive growth. He has filled the company with the best and brightest individuals, many of whom have post-graduate degrees in their fields of research and technology. He also shaped a unique open-office environment that promotes peer-to-peer communication, strategic thinking and endless creativity among the company.
Buxton was selected as a finalist by a panel of independent judges. He and the other finalists will be recognized at the Southwest Area awards banquet, June 30, in Dallas.
Southwest Area award winners are eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year national program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala later this year.
ABOUT BUXTON
Since 1994, Buxton has been the industry leader in customer analytics for the retail industry. In recent years, Buxton has expanded its focus to also advise healthcare organizations, consumer packaged goods manufacturers and city governments. Buxton enables organizations to pinpoint the exact value of every customer for every product at any distance from a particular site. Buxton draws from its individual- and household-level databases to identify customers’ lifestyles, behavior patterns and buying habits. Among its 1,200 clients are retailers and brands such as FedEx, Casual Male, California Pizza Kitchen, The Container Store and New Balance Shoes and communities such as McKinney, Texas; Buffalo, N.Y.; Gary, Ind.; Midtown Alliance Atlanta, Ga.; City of Moulton, Ala.; and the Village of Broadview, Ill. In a 2006 article for the retail industry, Retail Traffic recognized Buxton as “a site-selection ace that is forging new ground in advising retailers.” Buxton was also selected as one of the Most Innovative Companies in the 2006 American Business Awards and was named in Fast Company Magazine’s 2005 Fast 50 list of top innovators and technology pioneers.
Contact:
Courtney Hall
Communications Specialist
2651 South Polaris Drive; Fort Worth, TX 76137
Tel: 817-332-3681 Fax: 817-332-3686
chall@buxtonco.com
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