COWART AWARDS
Celebrating 50 years creating awards that make winners smile. As they celebrate 50 years, Cowart Awards would love to know the stories behind the Greenville community’s most prized awards. If you have a trophy with a story that is old, unique or special to you, let Cowart Awards know by visiting the company’s Facebook page. Share a photo and brief story to be entered in a contest with prizes awarded at the upcoming 50th Celebration. You may be a winner! Cowart Awards continues as a family business, and looks forward to the next 50 years!
912 Laurens Rd., Greenville awardsthatwork.com | 864.271.9131
Photography by carol boone stewart
Cowart Awards is celebrating 50 years creating awards that make winners smile. It was 50 years ago when George Cowart Sr. and his brother Tom founded the business, which is now operated by George’s wife Cheryl along with her son George Jr., daughter Erin and brother Raji. Cowart Awards celebrates a golden history and looks forward to a shining future. The awards business has changed greatly over the decades. Now, instead of local bowling leagues looking for trophies and engraving in a backyard garage, customers are shopping a virtual showroom via Google for unique awards that are then shipped globally. Products and processes have changed as well. Utilizing digital graphics, the company now offers more customized awards. In house Cowart Awards can etch glass and crystal, sublimate and laser engrave wood, metal and plastic while still using the traditional diamond drag engraving process. The expert staff also produces awards with UV full-color printing. The founders could have never foreseen the changes that were in store for their business, but Erin, who started working with the company in 2003, knows they would be proud of the success and growth – and the continuing commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. Because while the world has transformed in the past 50 years, and the business has as well, one thing hasn’t changed at all: every trophy has a story. From plaques awarded for a job well done, to a prized trophy earned with a last-minute score or even a well-timed bowling strike, trophies are reminders of fond memories and exciting victories.
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