Chamber announces small business award winners

Janet Wolfe (right), president and founder of Wolfe Laboratories Inc., will be honored with this year’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce said today.

The chamber added that its 2008 Small Business of the Year Awards will go to Hartney Greymont Inc., Bakers’ Best Inc., and the Elizabeth Grady Co.

Wolfe Laboratories of Watertown provides contract research and development services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Hartney Greymont of Needham, meanwhile, is an employee-owned company specializing in tree care. Bakers' Best of Newton is a full-service catering take-out restaurant. And Elizabeth Grady is a Medford-based chain of skin-care salons.

This year’s Small Business of the Year Awards Luncheon will be held at the Colonnade Hotel Oct. 16, the chamber said, and Wyc Grousbeck, managing partner and chief executive of the Boston Celtics, will be the event’s featured speaker, the chamber said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)