The Alabama Quality Award (modeled after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award) has been administered by the Alabama Productivity Center since 1986. The Award recognizes and honors organizations whose past or recent innovations in areas of production, service or management have resulted in increased productivity and quality.

For the purpose of the award, increased productivity and quality means getting more mileage out of the firm's resources, whether those resources are energy, capital, materials or people.

The Award promotes understanding of the requirements for performance excellence and competitiveness improvement; and sharing of information on successful performance strategies and the benefits derived from using these strategies.

The award was established to promote the awareness of performance excellence as an increasingly important element in competitiveness. Not only does it recognize excellent organizations, the Award also aims to increase the understanding of the requirements for performance excellence. To accomplish this, the Award promotes information sharing on successful performance strategies and the benefits derived from implementation of these strategies.

Alabama Quality Award 2007 Winners

Albertville Nursing Home

Lockheed Martin

Buffalo Rock Company
Alabama Division