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10^th Annual Ceremony Also Honors Miles
White, Beau Wrigley and Second City

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The 10^th annual Chicago Innovation Awards recognized the 10
most innovative products and services introduced in the Chicago region
during the past year.

“The
recognition of and support for innovation in the Chicago region is
growing fast and living up to its promise as the most powerful economic
engine of the new economy.”

Also honored at ceremonies Tuesday night at the Harris Theater:

• Miles White, chairman and CEO of Abbott Laboratories, who received the
  Visionary Award. Abbott has won more Chicago Innovation Awards than
  any other firm.
• Beau Wrigley, fourth-generation leader of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company,
  who received the 2011 Distinguished Innovator Award. Under his
  leadership, the company grew to $6 billion in sales from $2 billion
  and expanded its reach to 180 countries, assisted by his highly
  innovative approach to bringing new products to market.
• Second City, the Chicago-based leading brand in improv-based sketch
  comedy, whose owner and CEO, Andrew Alexander, accepted the Spirit of
  Innovation award; the troupe entertained at the awards event.

The ten winning products and services were: Red Frog Events; Navman
Wireless’ Qtanium; Illinois Tool Works’ Global Capless; Tripp Lite’s
SRCOOL12K Portable AC unit; Elkay’s EZH20; World Bicycle Relief’s
Buffalo Bicycles; Appolicious; Callibra’s Discharge 1-2-3 Composer;
Trustwave’s Trustkeeper; and Narrative Science.

They represented the full range of innovation in the Chicago region and
the diversity of its economy. The winning products included Tripp Lite’s
breakthrough approach to cooling data centers and networking
environments to Red Frog Events’ way of combining high-energy athletic
events and good humor. The region’s burgeoning high-tech innovation
community was represented by Trustwave’s cloud-based security system,
while World Bicycle Relief uses a low-tech approach to bring
transportation and small business opportunity to the developing world.

“The Chicago Innovation Awards shine a bright light on the creative
spirit of the Chicago region,” said Thomas D. Kuczmarski, the awards’
co-founder (with local journalist Dan Miller) and senior partner and
president of the innovation firm Kuczmarski Associates. “The
recognition of and support for innovation in the Chicago region is
growing fast and living up to its promise as the most powerful economic
engine of the new economy.”

This year’s awards drew more than 400 nominations, a record, and more
than 1,400 attended the full-house event.

Recognition of the region’s vibrant start-up community came through the
Chicago Innovation Awards’ expanded Up-and Comer Program, in partnership
with J.B. Pritzker and Matt McCall of the venture capital firm New World
Ventures.

The Up-and-Comers recognized were: Power2Switch; Tap.Me; FeeFighters;
Alltuition; Nexvu; Eved; GiveForward; Clean Urban Energy; Excelerate
Labs; and Technori.

The awards’ Gold Sponsor was Wrigley and Silver Sponsors were Comcast
Business Class, Cisco, Disney Institute, Spigit, Google and Edelman.

For additional information on the Chicago Innovation Awards and
tonight’s winners, please visit www.chicagoinnovationawards.com.

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