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.

You know us as the makers of YellaWood® brand pressure treated pine. Now, get to know the company behind the famous yella end tag. Established in 1970, Great Southern Wood Preserving, Incorporated, services D-I-Y retail home centers, pro dealers and other retail building-related segments from 14 facilities with distribution coverage that stretches from the Florida Keys to Texas to Canada including all or parts of 27 states and the District of Columbia. The company, based in Abbeville, AL, is best known as the maker of YellaWood® brand pressure treated pine. YellaWood® brand products are easily identifiable by a distinctive yellow tag and have long been recognized by consumers, professional builders, architects and specifiers for quality and dependability. From fence products, columns, deck specialties, kiln-dried after treatment (KDAT) products and other specialty items, YellaWood® is the brand of choice for outdoor building. In addition, the company provides dealers with a broad range of pressure treated lumber products and treatment options that serve all user segments from the homeowner, to farm and ranch needs, industrial and commercial applications, saltwater uses and more.The company also produces industrial packaging products. Additionally, the company is a distributor of many high quality products including TimberTech® composite decking and rails, Aeratis Porch Flooring, Fiberon® composite decking and railing, fasteners from FastenMaster® and Fortress Railing Products. For more information about our products or plant locations, please visit us at www.yellawood.com.

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.

An automotive parts specialized brand of HL Holdings, HL Mando, is based on the trust in supreme quality. We play a pivotal role in the distribution of HL Mando OE parts which are globally recognized for their advanced technology and premium quality for worldwide aftermarket. Along with HL Mando parts, HL Holdings supplies various OE quality parts to the global market. HL Mando Aftermarket provides a much wider range of products and more access to supreme quality products which have passed a quality control system and an inspection practiced by HL Holdings for international customers.

Robinson Grimes is the largest Certified Public Accounting firm in Columbus and one of the largest CPA firms in the state of Georgia. The firm serves a wide variety of clients in our region, and has particular expertise in the areas of real estate, wholesale distribution, governmental, non-profit, construction, and health care. In 2022 Robinson Grimes will celebrate the 90th anniversary of our founding. Our continued growth and success is the result of maintaining high standards of professional excellence and consistently delivering superior service to our clients.

Scott Bridge Company, Inc.’s roots date back to 1933 when Mr. I.J. Scott (Jud) and two partners formed Scott Construction Company in Thomasville, Georgia. In 1957 Mr. Scott left this firm to form his own company, The Scott Bridge Company, in Opelika, Alabama. The company became incorporated in 1965 by I.J. Scott and his son, I.J. Scott, Jr. Currently, Mr. I.J. Scott’s grandsons, I.J. Scott, III (Ike), President, William Scott, Vice President, and David Scott, Board Member own and continue to further the principles and traditions of their father and grandfather before them. SBC offers quality, performance, and experience in areas including, Highway Bridge Construction; Railroad Bridge Construction; Design-Build Contracts; Specialized work on the water; Cofferdams, Docks, Berths, Fender Systems, Mooring Dolphins; Pile Driving, Steel Erection, Sheet Pile Walls; Construction Management; Emergency and Disaster relief projects. Anything from a $192 million Joint Venture project in Augusta, Georgia to helping restore rail traffic into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We are committed to safety with zero accidents as our goal!