Growth and Innovation Nets CNS Fourth Consecutive Exceptional 53 Award

The Gazette of Politics and Business ranked CNS eighth in Maryland for business growth, community outreach and customer satisfaction.

POOLESVILLE, Md. – The Gazette of Politics and Business released its list of the 53 top businesses and organizations in the state of Maryland and Corporate Network Services of Poolesville, Md., finished eighth. The program, produced by The Gazette P&B, acknowledges the top 53 businesses and organizations in Maryland based on criteria that included the recipient company’s noteworthy product or service innovations, community service efforts, and how the companies portrayed themselves as good places to work.

This marks the fourth year in a row that Corporate Network Services made the list, previously ranking 19, seven and 23.

Corporate Network Services was recognized for its exceptional growth during the last three years as well as its Community Counts community service program and innovation in improved customer satisfaction using data mined from CNS internal systems. “Being named among the top 10 Maryland companies for the second time in four years is just amazing, especially when considering the other companies on the list,” said Karen Kalantzis, CNS CEO.

The fifth annual awards ceremony, held October 25 at the Hilton hotel in Gaithersburg, attracted a large crowd of appreciative attendees eager to celebrate the accomplishments of the top 53 companies. The awards ceremony was sponsored by Montgomery College, Hughes Network Systems, LLC, Montgomery County Commuter Services, and Rockville Economic Development, Inc.

“To make the 53 list is a great accomplishment,” said Trina Lapier, publisher of The Gazette P&B. “This year’s list features companies from the State of Maryland that have had success in a wide variety of fields, and each company deserved recognition of their accomplishments.”

Corporate Network Services will be profiled in a special section as part of the October 26 edition of The Gazette of Politics and Business.

About Corporate Network Services

Corporate Network Services (CNS) is a people-friendly, service oriented corporate information technology services company founded in 1993. The owners challenged themselves to create a new company that would put customers and employees first. Nineteen years and thousands of happy customers later, that challenge is being met! CNS provides small businesses with technical solutions that are easy to understand and implement for today’s demanding organizations.

Services include PROSuite™ managed services, disaster recovery, networking services, computer consulting and support, IT outsourcing, web-enabled databases and government contracting. For more information on CNS, contact 301-948-8077.