EBJ Business Achiever of the Week: Locus Technologies

A hardy round of applause this week for Locus Technologies (San Francisco, CA), winner of a 2013 Business Achievement Award in the information technology category for achieving its best year yet in terms of expanding and diversifying its customer base. Locus continued to enhance its position in the energy, sustainability, and compliance software markets by growing its Fortune 100 and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) customer lists. Locus added DuPont to its list of customers this year, and it won influential contracts in new industries, including a contract with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, opening the door to water-quality management for water utilities. Another win was with one of the largest companies in the agribusiness industry, expanding Locus’ penetration in the food and biotechnology industries. Other new customers in 2012 included DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Fermilab. In the private sector Locus signed numerous new customers, including Grain Processing Corp., Kelly-Moore Paint Co., and BASF, and renewed contracts with such companies as Honeywell, Exelon, Del Monte Foods, Kodak, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, Stillwater Mining, Venoco, Safeway, and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Locus staff members were also certified this year as carbon offset verifiers by the California Air Resources Board. In 2012, Locus also became an approved contractor with the federal General Services Administration (GSA) for a range of services.For a full list of EBJ’s 2012 Business Achievement Award winners, please visit https://ebionline.org/2012-ebj-business-achievement-awards. EBJ will begin accepting nominations for 2013 Business Achievement Awards in October.