LANSING – Michigan’s outstanding, award-winning small businesses will be honored April 24 at the Lansing Center as the state’s major business organizations and agencies collaborate for the fourth annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business event.

The cooperative effort, which names the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch, Innovation of the Year and many other awards, will be hosted by the Edward Lowe Foundation, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center, Small Business Association of Michigan and the U.S. Small Business Administration/Michigan.

?Michigan Celebrates Small Business recognizes Michigan’s entrepreneurial spirit in an exciting, collaborative event that brings together key organizations and agencies in our state that are striving to strengthen the future for our small business economy in Michigan,? said Carol Lopucki, state director of the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center Network.

National City is the lead sponsor for Michigan Celebrates Small Business. Other sponsors are Clark Hill PLC Attorneys at Law, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, IBM and Dynamic Edge, Inc. Media partners include MiBiz, Crain?s Detroit Business, Upper Peninsula Business Today, Mitechnews.com, WWJ Newsradio 950 and The Daily Dash, and the Greater Lansing Business Monthly.

Tickets are available at MichiganCelebrates.Biz

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