What is a Chamber ribbon cutting?
Planning Your Ribbon Cutting or Groundbreaking Ceremony Calvert County Department of Economic Development Courthouse, 175 Main Street. The Department of Economic Development can assist in developing a press release to announce the. For example, if you have speakers, you may need a podium, microphone and chairs. Ribbon-cutting synonyms and Ribbon-cutting antonyms. Top synonym for ribbon-cutting (another word for ribbon-cutting) is dedication. Wadsworth Ribbon Cutting Press Release. A highlight of the noon ceremony was the introduction of Lellan “Mac” McFarland, the Wadsworth campus’ first.
A ribbon cutting is the ceremonial opening of a brand-new or newly-renovated/relocated business that has opened within the last six months. It can inaugurate an organization’s first day of business or it can take place weeks after the business’ soft opening.
Because the ribbon cutting marks a very significant moment in the business’ history, this is also a great photo opportunity. The ceremony gives the business owner or manager a chance to say a few words to those gathered. Business owners have used this time to publicly thank their financial backers, their employees, their friends and family, and/or their business partners. They also take the opportunity to talk about what their business does.
You must be a new or current Chamber member in good standing (including dues paid) for the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce to participate in your ribbon cutting.
Who qualifies for a ribbon cutting?
Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce is available to assist with your ceremony if your business has:
- Opened its doors within the past six months
- Moved to a new location due to expansion
- Has been remodeled or has expanded its current location
- Is celebrating a milestone anniversary (1 year; 5 years; 10 years; 25 years; etc.)
- Groundbreaking
What are the benefits of holding a Chamber ribbon cutting?
By hosting a ribbon cutting, you can:
- Introduce both the public and Chamber members to your business
- Announce your ribbon cutting on the Chamber’s Community Calendar
- Familiarize the public and Chamber members with your product/services
- Familiarize the public and Chamber members with your physical location
- Begin a customer base
- Generate leads and sales from attendees
- Publish a photo of your ribbon cutting in the Chamber’s newsletter with a distribution list of about 4,000!
Is there a cost to have the Chamber participate?
There is no cost to host a chamber ribbon cutting for a qualifying milestone event.
Press Release For Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Is the ribbon cutting my business’ event or a Chamber event?
This is your event. The Chamber will gladly assist you with the following:
- Notify the Chamber’s Board of Directors and Ambassadors Committee members of your ribbon cutting, encouraging their attendance
- Invite local officials on your behalf (upon request only)
- List your ribbon cutting on the Chamber’s ribbon cutting page of our website
- Have a member of the Chamber’s Team provide congratulatory remarks
- Provide a list of Chamber member caterers (upon request only)
- Provide contact list of local media outlets (upon request only)
- Bring the “BIG scissors” and ribbon
- Take pictures at the event and publish a photo in our newsletter, The Chamber News.
Press Release Examples For Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Ideas
While the Chamber will extend the above mentioned invitations and list your ribbon cutting on our website, we strongly encourage you to conduct your own PR campaign to increase the attendance and awareness of your business’s opening. You should also consider inviting your business partners, financiers, contractors, employees, customers, friends, and family to be with you to celebrate this momentous occasion in your business’s history. Please understand that you should not rely solely on the Chamber to attract your audience.
What do we do?
Because your ribbon cutting is your event, there are no set rules. To make your event successful, carefully consider the following:
- Schedule your event using our Ribbon Cutting Reservation Form at least two weeks in advance. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays are usually the best days during the week for business people, not earlier than 9:00am and avoiding later evening functions. We’re sorry; the Chamber cannot assist with ribbon cuttings after 5:00pm or on weekends and holidays. Also, we ask you to please take a moment to cross-check your preferred date and time of celebration with the Grand Rapids Chamber’s events calendar to prevent scheduling conflicts with Chamber events.
- Determine who will cut the ribbon. The owners or top executives most frequently do the honors, but each business is different and can pick whomever they like.
- Who will be in the photo(s). Some businesses will take multiple photos with various groups of people before actually cutting the ribbon. Photos might include employees, family, Chamber members, business partners, and Ambassadors for example.
- Your remarks or speech. This is usually done when everyone is gathered before cutting the ribbon.
- Invite everyone you know! Invite your family, friends, past, current and potential customers, business associates (including your accountant, banker, and property owner,) suppliers, your employees, the media, neighboring businesses, and government officials.
- Consider having giveaways, especially logo items that guests can take back to their offices. The Chamber is happy to provide you with members who can help you create gifts.
- Food and beverage is not required, but for open house events, it makes a nice touch. The Chamber is happy to provide you with members who can help you with catering.
- Prepare a quick speech and be sure to have plenty of brochures available.
Other details to enhance your event
Refreshments, drinks, door prizes, and decorations are optional and up to you. Many businesses add these extra touches when conducting a public grand opening in conjunction with the ribbon cutting.
A special invitation. The Chamber can sell you a member mailing list if you would like to mail an optional special invitation to the entire membership. This is especially encouraged if you are conducting a grand opening with prizes, business specials, and refreshments.
Organize a separate PR campaign. If you would like to invite the general public, you should explore other advertising avenues and/or consider sending a press release to the local media. You can do this yourself or hire a marketing company to help you with this. The Chamber can provide you with a list of the local media contacts and a membership directory to locate a marketing firm.
Complete and return the Chamber’s Ribbon Cutting reservation form.
Click here to complete the Ribbon Cutting Reservation Form.
Please note:
Pre-registration with the Chamber for Ribbon Cuttings is required with two weeks advance notice.
Events are scheduled based upon availability Monday – Friday from 9:00am – 4:00pm.
Submit all changes in writing to Mark Allen.
What have other businesses done to make their ribbon cutting and/or grand opening unique?
- Sent a special invitation to the whole Chamber membership
- Sent a special direct mail piece/invitation to area residents and/or non-member businesses
- Sent a special direct mail/email invitation to local elected officials (Mayor, City Commissioners, County Commissioners, etc.)
- Conducted a separate PR campaign to try to grab media attention
- Invited lots of clients, employees, and/or board directors from their organization Invited corporate staff from out-of-town corporate headquarters
- Offered complimentary appetizers and beverages from fancy to simple, from a few selections to a large buffet and/or chocolate fountains, champagne fountains, and sweets
- Invited sports or business mascots and superheroes in costumes
There are lots of great websites that provide tips on planning and executing a great event. Google “ribbon cutting ceremonies” for the top sites.
Note: The Chamber cannot guarantee the number of guests in attendance. Pre-registration with the Chamber for Ribbon Cuttings is required with two weeks advance notice. Events are scheduled based upon availability. Ribbon cuttings are conducted Monday – Friday from 9:00am – 4:00pm. No more than two ribbon cuttings will be conducted in the same day.
Contact Mark Allen at 616.771.0348 for more information.
FRIENDSWOOD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Castle Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTL), a dermatologic diagnostics company providing personalized genomic information to inform treatment decisions, today announced it will host a ribbon cutting ceremony and reception for national, state and local officials, employees and other members of the community, at its new corporate headquarters on May 25, 2021, from 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Central time. The Company’s new headquarters is located at 505 South Friendswood Drive in Friendswood, Texas.
“At Castle, we are committed to improving the lives of patients with skin cancer and other dermatologic diseases,” said Derek Maetzold, president and chief executive officer of Castle Biosciences. “The Company was founded in 2007 in Friendswood, Texas. We are excited to move into our new headquarters, which we expect to facilitate the continued growth of our business and help us remain focused on our commitment to patients.
“Company-wide, we grew the size of our team in 2020 by almost 50% and as planned, have continued to add employees in 2021 to date, with expectations to add even more team members throughout 2021. The company’s vision is to provide a comprehensive offering of prognostic and diagnostic tests in skin cancer and dermatologic diseases with high unmet clinical need to guide diagnosis and patient management. This month, we celebrate our progress toward this vision, while remaining a proud member of the Friendswood community.”
Castle has laboratory operations in Phoenix, and in 2020, the Company doubled the footprint of its College of American Pathologists (CAP) accredited, Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-certified primary laboratory facility. The Company expanded the space to approximately 23,500 square feet by adding a new laboratory facility in close proximity to the primary facility to support growth and provide certain operational redundancy. Earlier in 2021, the Company further expanded this facility to include approximately 3,600 additional square feet.
About Castle Biosciences
Castle Biosciences (Nasdaq: CSTL) is a commercial-stage dermatologic diagnostics company focused on providing physicians and their patients with personalized, clinically actionable genomic information to make more accurate treatment decisions. The Company currently offers tests for patients with cutaneous melanoma (DecisionDx®-Melanoma, DecisionDx®-CMSeq), cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (DecisionDx®-SCC), suspicious pigmented lesions (DecisionDx® DiffDx™-Melanoma) and uveal melanoma (DecisionDx®-UM, DecisionDx®-PRAME and DecisionDx®-UMSeq). For more information about Castle’s gene expression profile tests, visit www.CastleTestInfo.com. Castle also has active research and development programs for tests in other dermatologic diseases with high clinical need, including its test in development to predict systemic therapy response in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and related conditions. Castle Biosciences is based in Friendswood, Texas (Houston), and has laboratory operations in Phoenix, Arizona.
For more information, visit www.CastleBiosciences.com.
DecisionDx-Melanoma, DecisionDx-CMSeq, DecisionDx-SCC, DecisionDx DiffDx-Melanoma, DecisionDx-UM, DecisionDx-PRAME and DecisionDx-UMSeq are trademarks of Castle Biosciences, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
The information in this press release contains forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the ability of the Company’s new headquarters to facilitate growth of the Company’s business and help the Company remain focused on its commitment to patients and the Company’s expectations regarding the growth in the size of its team. The words “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “projects,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions, or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements that we make. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and our efforts to address its impact on our business and the risks set forth in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, and in our other filings with the SEC.The forward-looking statements are applicable only as of the date on which they are made, and we do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as may be required by law.
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