Terry Turner, president, All Occasions Party Rentals, Knoxville, Tenn., was one of nine business leaders honored Friday, May 4, at the Knoxville Chamber's annual Pinnacle Awards dinner at the Knoxville Convention Center.

All Occasions Party Rentals received the Small Business Excellence Award, which recognizes businesses with 50 or fewer employees. Twenty-four Knoxville area companies were selected as finalists for the 2012 Pinnacle Business Awards out of more than 175 companies that were nominated in eight different categories recognizing outstanding businesses and businesspeople. Winners are chosen by the Chamber’s board of directors.

“A Pinnacle Award is the most prestigious award you can win as a local businessperson or company,” Turner said. “To be honored by our peers means the world to our team and we are truly honored by this recognition.”

To view the acceptance speech, click here.