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The Kenosha Area Business Alliance (KABA) and the Kenosha Area Chamber of Commerce will honor F. Gregory Campbell, longtime president of Carthage College, at the annual Kenosha County Business Excellence Awards dinner on Thursday, Nov. 3.

RJ Underground specializes in directional drilling, especially for the installation of sewer and water utilities.

Offsite LLC, founded in 2002 by Steve Borucki and Joe Rickard, provides data storage and disaster recovery services for business clients.

A few years ago, Carl Schultz was frustrated that nobody could provide a high-quality polycarbonate coating for the windows that his company, Twin Lakes-based Five Star Fabricating Inc., makes for race cars. Five Star Fabricating makes race car bodies and polycarbonate sheets are used to protect the race car windows.

Equity Creative (formerly Equity Brand Design) is a marketing and communications agency founded in 2007 by partners Dean Helmke and Charlie Skendziel.

Allied Plastics Inc., a Twin Lakes-based plastic thermoforming company, has experienced significant growth in recent years, in large part because of a shift in business from packaging to OEM (original equipment manufacturer) work.

Craig Deaton was determined to start his own business, in his own way, back in 1983 when he founded Gateway Mortgage Corp.

Bristol-based GEM Manufacturing Inc. has nearly doubled its manufacturing space and its workforce in the past two years.

Xten Industries LLC is so named because the company aims to be an extension of its customers' businesses.

Kenosha County's economic diversification and revitalization has been two decades in the making. An economy once dominated by automobile manufacturing has become considerably more diverse and resilient.