ParsonsKellogg president honored by national SBA

EAST PROVIDENCE – Thomas Parsons Kellogg III, president of ParsonsKellogg LLC, has been named Rhode Island’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

ParsonsKellogg, a distributor of promotional products, has been in business since 2001.

The company, which came close to filing for bankruptcy during the Great Recession, has turned itself around. It was the seventh-fastest-growing company in Rhode Island last year among private companies with revenue of $5 million to $25 million, according to Providence Business News research. It had a 27 percent growth rate from 2012-2014, when annual revenue grew $3.7 million. •

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