Taylor Homes is the proud winner of the 2011 Better Business Bureau (serving Louisville, Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky) Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics in the small business category.

The BBB Torch Awards honors businesses and non-profit organizations that maintain a solid commitment to conducting their business practices in an ethical fashion, and exemplify the BBB’s mission to promote trust in the marketplace.

No award could mean more to Taylor Homes, as we have always taken pride in our trustworthiness in the building industry and treatment of our customers and employees!

Winners are selected by an independent panel of volunteer judges, who select winners based on criteria established by the BBB. Ethical practices are judged according to the following guidelines:

• High ethical standards of behavior demonstrated toward customers, suppliers, users, shareholders, employees, and the communities in which they do business,

• Demonstrated ethical practices surrounding their buyer/seller relationships,

• Long standing history/reputation of ethical practices in the marketplace,

• Marketing, advertising, communications, and sales practices which reflect a true representations of what is being offered in the marketplace,

• Acknowledgment of ethical marketplace practices by industry peers and in the communities where they do business,

• Ethics policies that are effectively communicated to the employees,

• Ethics policies that are designed to give long term value to shareholders and customers,

• Training programs that assist employees in carrying out established ethical policies