Starkey Founder and CEO William F. Austin Wins Prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award
William F. Austin
Minneapolis, Dec. 7, 2009 – Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world’s leading hearing technology companies, is proud to announce that its founder and CEO, William F. Austin, is the recipient of the prestigious Award for Corporate Citizenship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The corporate citizenship award honors a business leader whose business practices and example have demonstrated “deep concern for the common good beyond the bottom line,” according to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ web site. Individuals chosen to receive this award embody Woodrow Wilson’s “commitment to scholarship, public discourse, and the promotion of knowledge in the United States and around the world.”
Austin joins prominent past winners from companies including McDonald’s, Limited Brands, Tyson Foods, DaimlerChrysler, Time Warner, Texas Instruments and local companies Cargill and Carlson Companies.
About Starkey®
Starkey Laboratories, Inc. is a privately held, global hearing technology company headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn. The company is recognized for its innovative design, development and distribution of comprehensive digital hearing systems. Founded in 1967, Starkey employs over 3,500 people, operates 22 facilities and conducts business in over 100 markets worldwide. For more information, visit Starkey.com
Starkey, a world leader in the design, development and distribution of comprehensive hearing solutions, helps people reconnect with the world around them – from family and friends to hobbies and work. Through cutting-edge research, the industry’s leading technology platform, hearing loss awareness programs and outstanding service, the company makes the journey to better hearing comfortable, satisfying and successful.
Starkey’s digital hearing aids, hearing protection devices and other unique hearing solutions meet a wide variety of needs. And, with 22 facilities around the world, we meet those needs on a global scale.
For more information, visit www.starkey.com/ or the Starkey information page on Healthy Hearing.
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