Huntsville, Alabama – LEAN Frog is honored and humbled to receive the North Alabama Better Business Bureau’s 2013 Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics, Small Business Category. LEAN Frog President and Co-founder 
Byron Headrick accepted the award at the 16th Annual Torch Awards for Ethics & 12th Annual Torch Scholarships. He noted, “This is a very special award for our company. It highlights that our core values are more than words on paper. It shows that our team is living by our core values and it is being witnessed by our customers and community.”
Candidates for the Better Business Award for Marketplace Ethics are evaluated by an independent prestigious panel of judges from the business and academic community against the following criteria:
- High ethical standards of behavior toward customers, suppliers, shareholders, employees, and communities in which they do business
- Demonstrated ethical practices surrounding their buyer/seller relationship
- Longstanding history/reputation of ethical practices in the marketplace
- Marketing, advertising, communications and sales practices which reflect a true representation of what is being offered in the marketplace
- Acknowledgement of ethical marketplace practices by industry peers in the communities where they do business
- Ethics policies that are designed to give long-term value to shareholders, customers, etc.
- Training programs that assist employees in carrying out established ethics policies
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