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Medley Specialties Wins Small Business of the Year Award
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Medley Specialties Inc. has been a fixture on the Martinsville business scene for more than a quarter century, first as a garment dye house, then as a manufacturer of textile chemicals.
The company received the Small Business of the Year Award for Manufacturing in 2008 from the Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce.
The firm, with half a dozen employees, still manufactures textile chemicals, but has also started making pet care products, as well as laundry detergents and soaps for institutions, such as prison systems and government entities, says Scott Medley, vice president.
“In the early days, we had a garment dye house for textiles; we dyed T-shirts, stone-washed jeans and things like that. That went away, and we started making textile chemicals,” Medley says.
The cleaning and pet products were added when the firm saw a need to branch out and diversify, Medley adds.
Story by Ann Gillem
