Awards – Feb. 14, 2014

Lafayette-based The Creative Alliance won an American Package Design Award from GD USA Magazine for packaging designed for its client b Confections. The packaging of four varieties of artisan confections was designed to convey the premium quality of the product inside. Each variety has its own signature color, creating a beautiful array when the packages are displayed together in a retail environment.

Boulder-based Amadeus Consulting Group Inc. was named Zero Waste Business of the Month for January by Boulder-based nonprofit Eco-Cycle Inc. for its efforts in diverting typical recyclable materials, along with hard-to-recycle materials including scrap metal, electronics, bubble-wrap and plastic bags from landfills through the Eco-Cycle program.

Boulder-based WeatherCloud Inc. won first place in the Smart Cities category of the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup, an international competition to identify and support the most promising startups around the world. The Challenge Cup is presented by 1776, a Washington D.C.-based technology accelerator. The Smart Cities category highlights startups that are making cites sustainable, safer, and more convenient in areas such as transportation, public safety and government services. WeatherCloud, founded by Duer Reeves, has developed a vehicle-mounted sensor array that transforms vehicles into mobile weather sensors. Each sensor-equipped vehicle wirelessly uploads the data it collects to a database containing data, providing a real-time description of current and weather conditions at ground level.

Downtown Boulder Inc. handed out awards to businesses in downtown Boulder on Feb. 4. This year’s award recipients were Business of the Year: Frasca Food and Wine;
Rising Star: LON Little Shop; Property Owner of the Year: John Reynolds; Community Service Award: Isabel McDevitt, Bridge House; Ron Porter Special Achievement Award: Jake Puzio, Citywide Banks.

on Facebook on LinkedIn