Big Moose Deli’s Emil Baker Honored By SBA
Friday morning, November 1, officials from the U.S. Small Business Administration gathered at Mr. Baker’s rather prominent store on NYS Route 7, to recognize the work he has done to help other veterans open and operate small businesses. Mr. Baker was also honored for his work around the eastern part of the country for SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer expert business mentors.
SBA’s Regional Administrator Steve Bulger gave Mr. Baker his Certificate of Recognition, and told those gathered for the ceremony, nearly one in 10 small businesses is veteran-owned. Collectively, veteran-owned businesses employ 5 million workers and generate $1.2 trillion in receipts.
SCORE Volunteer Emil Baker, a service-disabled Vietnam veteran entrepreneur, primarily hires other service-disabled veterans to work for his small business. Baker additionally volunteers to speak at various SBA Boots to Business classes throughout the Atlantic Region of New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mr. Bulger went on to say “Veterans possess the exact qualities that make successful entrepreneurs: discipline, determination, resourcefulness and dedication to team success. With the start of National Veterans Small Business Week on Monday, the SBA celebrates the countless contributions of veteran-owned small businesses to our economy and strives to connect them, their spouses and active service members with no- and low-cost resources to help them succeed.”