Torch Technologies announced today that the company won the coveted North Alabama Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics in the Mid-size Company category for 2005.

Presented annually, the BBB Torch Award honors businesses that demonstrate exceedingly high standards of behavior toward customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and communities; adherence to truthful and honorable advertising and sales practices; and an earned reputation for noteworthy contributions to their industries and the communities in which they do business.

The Torch Award promotes not only the importance of ethical business practices, but the willingness and efforts made by outstanding businesses to ensure that our country’s marketplace remains fair and honorable for all Americans.

A company should demonstrate its commitment to high ethical standards of behavior and provide documentation in the following categories:

• Management Practices
• Customer/ Vendor/ Supplier/ Shareholder Relations
• Marketing/ Advertising/ Communications/ Sales Practices
• Reputation within Industry and Community