Over 50 Million people worldwide have chosen Aflac because of our commitment to providing customers with the confidence that comes from knowing they have assistance in being prepared for whatever life may bring. With Aflac, whether you're a large business or a small one, you can provide your employees with the kind of benefits they’d expect from a bigger company, helping your business stand out from the crowd. Hundreds of thousands of businesses across the United States already make Aflac available to their employees—at no direct cost to their company. Choose from a wide range of products that can help your employees with health events—from accidents, to disability, to cancer, to life insurance. Your employees enjoy benefits from Aflac, all employee-paid. Please check out aflac.com for more information.

Synovus is a full-service, top-performing mid-cap bank with over $57 billion in assets and $7.3 billion in capital and has been named one of Newsweek’s Most Trustworthy Companies. Our purpose is to enable people to reach their full potential, and we pursue that aspiration in all the communities we serve across the Southeast and beyond. Whether you’re a prospect, client, or team member, we know you have goals you want to reach. We’ll help you get there.

Designing and engineering for the business of water. Anticipating the needs of the utility, we have provided many industry firsts including the foundation of smart water metering, the solid state absolute encoder register. Neptune’s experience in the water industry is a story rooted in loyalty to our customers and in sound stewardship. It is a story more than twelve decades strong. Neptune Technology Group Inc. is a technology company serving more than 4,000 water utilities across North America. We make data actionable using effective software and hardware tools that are interconnected by a smart network, with expertise and experience specifically focused on the business of water. Everything we do is centered on our customers and their evolving needs as: A Purposeful Utility Technical solutions are designed with a clear purpose, to respond to — and anticipate — the needs of the water utility. Neptune® technology focuses directly on ideas that most effectively resolve challenges felt by our customers in their daily work life. An Adaptive Utility Our design and engineering processes allow utilities to adapt quickly to ever-evolving technologies while leveraging existing assets to accomplish unique business goals. A Connected Utility How well technology, data, and systems serve our customers will be the true measure of our success. The connected age requires well-thought-out, ready-to-use tools to share information, linking utilities to solutions, departments, consumers, and partners. A Responsible Utility Together, we are stewards of a life-sustaining resource—water. Neptune is committed to help protect water quality in every community we serve and partner in the education of the value of water. Win your day with Neptune, your most valued partner. Connect to what’s next in water.

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West Fraser is a diversified wood products company with more than 60 facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. From responsibly sourced and sustainably managed forest resources, the Company produces lumber, engineered wood (OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, particleboard), and other products including pulp, newsprint, wood chips, and renewable energy. West Fraser’s products are used in home construction, repair and remodelling, industrial applications, papers, tissue and box materials.

The W.C. Bradley Co., founded in 1885, is a privately owned company headquartered in Columbus, Georgia. Founded as a “cotton factoring” business, the company heritage includes operating diverse businesses in the textiles industry, farm implement manufacturing, wholesale supply businesses meeting the needs of industrial and building contractors, retail businesses in outdoor sports equipment and licensed sports apparel, and barbecue grill manufacturing. The W.C. Bradley Co. is dedicated to its team members, the community, and to its reputation for quality and value. Today, it is comprised of the following companies focused on home and leisure products and services: Char-Broil, Lamplight, Badlands, and W.C. Bradley Co. Real Estate. The W.C. Bradley Co.’s worldwide headquarters are located on the Chattahoochee River in historic Uptown Columbus in renovated buildings dating from 1885. The W.C. Bradley Co. — strong traditions, with a proud past and a promising future.

PLUMBERS & STEAMFITTERS LOCAL UNION 52 is a construction company based out of P.O. BOX 211105, MONTGOMERY, Alabama, United States.

Fullsteam is a leading payments and technology company that is actively acquiring software businesses across multiple verticals. We provide our family of companies with streamlined payments infrastructure and enhanced operational support in order to increase growth and improve profitability. Backed by Aquiline Capital Partners, Fullsteam is based in Auburn, Ala.

Since 1949, Hughston Clinic has sought to provide the most advanced orthopaedic services available to all walks of life. Hughston encompasses 20 institutions over the Southeast, along with 6 sectors: Rehabilitation, Diagnostics, Orthopaedic Trauma, Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital and the Hughston Foundation, the doctors who make up this unique practice have devoted their lives to the study of orthopaedics and the treatment of musculoskeletal trauma, sports injuries, spine, upper extremity/hand and industrial medicine. In fact, few institutions anywhere in the world have assembled and sustained this level of talent in orthopaedic medicine. The Hughston Clinic has helped over 1 million patients live without pain.

MAX is a not-for-profit financial cooperative serving central and east Alabama and west Georgia. MAX is a full-service institution with several branch locations, myMAX.com, and MAX Online & Mobile banking services. See myMAX.com for our branch locations. As a full service financial institution, MAX offers business and consumer checking, savings, auto loans, home mortgages, commercial lending and many other financial products/services. Federally insured by NCUA. Equal Housing Lender. For qualified borrowers. Certain restrictions apply. Contact Us: 334-260-2600 800-776-6776 www.myMAX.com

Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC) is one of the largest architecture and engineering firms in the Southeast. Whether designing schools, parks, hospitals and other commercial developments, or providing clean water, safe streets and restoring resilient environments, GMC takes great pride in serving our communities through the transformative work we do. Every project is guided by the foundational concept that communities are built by people, not companies, and we strive to serve our communities with quality, integrity, creativity and care. One of the Southeast’s most comprehensive multi-disciplined firms, GMC is equipped to provide all the services associated with architecture, interior design, civil engineering, environmental services, landscape architecture, planning, transportation engineering, geotechnical engineering, electrical engineering, surveying and disaster recovery. Visit www.gmcnetwork.com to learn more about who we are and what we do.

Baptist Health is the largest health care system in Central Alabama and a proud affiliate of the UAB Health System. With more than 600 highly respected and experienced physicians on the medical staff, Baptist Health provides residents of Central Alabama with access to advanced treatments, technologies, and cutting-edge medical care close to home. The 775-bed health system has a regional service area of 14 counties with approximately 700,000 people. Baptist Health's family of health care services includes three acute care hospitals, a regional cancer center, a free-standing psychiatric hospital, a joint venture surgical center, a network of ambulatory clinics, outpatient imaging centers, urgent care facilities, wound care services, rehabilitation, and home care services. Some of our recent accolades include: • Forbes Top Employer in Alabama • Top 100 Hospital and Top 15 Health System (Truven Health) • Nationally-certified Stroke Center (Joint Commission) • Blue Distinction + Center for Hips and Knees (Blue Cross Blue Shield) • Gold Plus Stroke Quality Achievement Award (American Heart and Stroke Associations) • CHIME Award ﹘ Most Wired Health System