Small Business Roundup Edison, NJ
It’s a clean sweep to success for Tom Vazquez. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, the owner of T.M. Enterprises will tell you that it was a lot of hard work when he and his wife Mary Ann started their small janitorial business from their kitchen table back in 1978.

Today, the hard work has .nally paid off for Vazquez and his Wharton-based company as he was named the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2004 New Jersey Minority Small Business Person of the Year.

The announcement was made at Camp Kilmer in Edison, where Vazquez’s company has performed a variety of services. In making the announcement, SBA New Jersey District Director James A. Kocsi said, that Vazquez was chosen for the award based on criteria that includes a company’s Overall Financial Strength; Growth in Sales and Pro.ts; Growth in Number of Employees; and Participation in Community and Charitable Events.

“After four years of service in the Air Force, I became a policeman for the Boonton Police Department,” said Vazquez. “We had three children; you do what you need to do.” So he borrowed a friend’s carpet cleaner and started to market himself as a janitorial company.