Awards Received for Businesses Palko Owned:

• “Best Places to Work In PA 2006″ for Solid Cactus
• “Best Places to Work in PA 2007″ for Solid Cactus
• “Best Places to Work in PA 2008″ for Solid Cactus
• 2007 APEX Award for Publication Excellence for eBiz Insider Magazine the official publication of Solid Cactus
• 2007 Inclusion of Solid Cactus in the Inc 500 as one of America’s fastest growing private companies
• 2006 Solid Cactus wins two national silver “Davey” Awards for website design
• 2006 The FerretStore.com is named a finalist in the 21st Annual Multichannel Merchant Awards in the Consumer Speciality category
• 2005 TheFerretStore.com, ActiveK9.com and RabbitCentral.com are finalists in the Consumer Speciality category for an I.MERCHANT Award
• 2002 TheFerretStore.com receives an I.MERCHANT Award and is named one of the country’s top eCommerce websites
• 2002 One of TheFerretStore.com’s private label products, the Ferret Flying Saucer, was featured on CBS’s “The Saturday Early Show”
• 2000 TheFerretStore.com included as one of TIME Digital’s 700 Best Internet Stores
• 2000 TheFerretStore.com features in Yahoo! Internet Life along with Petsmart and Petopia

• 2005 Named one of the years “Young Millionaires” by Entrepreneur Magazine
• 2006 Sold TheFerretStore.com and affiliated pet websites to Doctor’s Foster and Smith.
• 2008 Named one of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s “Top 40 Under 40″ by the Times Leader newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, PA
• 2009 Received “Entrepreneurial Achievement Award” by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of NEPA
• 2009 Sold Solid Cactus to Web.com (Nasdaq:WWWW)
• 2011 Google Adwords Certified Individual

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