Birko hits top 10 list of women-owned companies

    HENDERSON – Birko, a business that provides food safety solutions to the meat, poultry, pork, produce and brewery industries, is No. 10 on the ColoradoBiz magazine list of top Woman-Owned Companies for 2011, based on 2010 gross revenue.

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Kelly Green, chairman of the board and third-generation owner of Birko. Her business was named to the Top 10 in the ColoradoBiz magazine list of Colorado woman-owned companies.

    Birko is the only Colorado manufacturing company in the Top 10. One hundred companies are on the list.
    “We’re thrilled to be in the Top 10 on this prestigious list,” said Kelly Green, chairman of the board and third-generation owner of Birko, which was founded in 1953. “We’ve been a woman-owned company since 1978 and we’re proud to be recognized as a successful, growing Colorado company.”
    Birko employs approximately 60 people. Half are in Henderson, the other half are spread out across the country. The firm manufactures more than 250 cleaning, sanitation and production process chemicals and solutions for antimicrobial interventions.