Don Buckner, president of VAC-TRON Equipment, has been named Florida's Entrepreneur of the Year in the category of real estate/construction. The winners were announced at a gala awards-ceremony held at the Orlando World Center Marriott, June 28. The event was the culmination of an intensive search to identify and recognize Florida's outstanding entrepreneurs.
The program recognizes entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
Florida's winners are now eligible to participate in Ernst and Young's National Entrepreneur of the Year awards competition, the pre-eminent program honoring outstanding owners of fast-growing companies.
Previous Entrepreneur of the Year award winners include a "Who's Who" of business leaders, such as Michael Dell
of Dell Computer Corporation, Jim McCann of 1-800-Flowers, Steve Case of America Online and Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee.
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Founded and produced by Ernst and Young LLP, the Entrepreneur of the Year program is nationally sponsored by The USA Today, CNNfn and CNN, the Nasdaq Stock Market, and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Based in Okahumpka, VAC-TRON Equipment designs and manufactures industrial vacuum and environmental clean-up equipment that has dozens of industrial, private and municipal uses including directional drilling, vacuum location of underground utility lines, industrial clean-up, man-hole and storm drain clean-out, and natural disaster clean-up. Customers include municipalities, utility companies, boring contractors, food processing facilities, saw mills, ship/boat yards, power plants and roofing contractors.
VAC-TRON Equipment has grown nearly 8,000 percent and eclipsed its national competitors in all areas. Recently, the company relocated from its 6,000-square-foot-facility to a new 64,000-square-foot-complex.
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