Archive for 2011

Birmingham Business Journal Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 2:22pm CDT The Iron Door Co. was the highest ranking Birmingham area business on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in America. The Alabaster business, which makes and distributes high-end doors and windows, checked in at No. 157 on the list, with three-year revenue [...]

By BRAD GASKINS / Staff Writer CALERA – A stream running through Timberline Golf Course is getting an environmental facelift. Work began last week and is being funded through a $40,000 Alabama Department of Environmental Management 319(h) grant, and is part of the Buxahatchee Creek Watershed Restoration project, an ongoing effort for the last two [...]

Birmingham Business Journal by Anna Thibodeaux Date: Friday, June 3, 2011, 2:42pm CDT Alabama’s recovery from the April 27 tornadoes that ripped through the state and Southeast will take months to years for many, so the BBJ asked area experts and business owners to pinpoint concerns that might arise as those impacted work to rebuild [...]

Shannon Riley’s reputation as a specialist in addressing hazardous waste spills helped her Birmingham-based company gain work helping clean up parts of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. The April 27 tornadoes that decimated neighborhoods across Alabama have created more opportunities for Riley’s firm, One Stop Environmental in Woodlawn, and she relishes the [...]

From Pandora Internet Radio, a Trenton-based trash-to-cash juggernaut, to a New Orleans reconstruction stalwart, America’s urban cores are home to a host of rising stars. The Inner City 100, a project of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, highlights the fastest growing inner city businesses in America. For the 2011 list, ICIC received more [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Sort, haul, repeat. That’s the job now in Madison County’s storm-battered areas as contractors hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begin hauling debris from the April 27 storms. First, property owners will see crews from companies such as One Stop Environmental LLC of Birmingham. One Stop was already working on [...]

Two Birmingham companies earned spots on a list of the nation’s fastest-growing inner city companies. The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune magazine said the companies were selected for the 2011 Inner 100, a list of expanding firms based in inner city areas. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and their CEO’s as [...]

There are many business, non-profit and church leaders who are very dedicated to our community. Shannon Riley, CEO of One Stop Environmental, LLC, is one of those people. One Stop is known throughout the United States for being an efficient, cost effective environmental contractor and was recently named the 16th fastest growing inner city business in the [...]

When Shannon Riley established One Stop Environmental in 1999 she had a newborn baby at home, and she figured being her own boss would give her plenty of time to be a good mom. Even while putting the kids first, Riley got busy building up a high-growth environmental concern. She started off doing emergency response cleanup, and expanded over [...]