CHARLESTON -- Two Huntington businessmen have been recognized by The State Journal as part of the weekly business publication's annual West Virginia business awards.

Marshall Reynolds, chairman of Champion Industries, has been chosen as the winner of the 2009 Lorenelle White Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob Childers of Structures Resources Inc. was named one of eight winners of the Who's Who in West Virginia Business Award for 2009.

Other winners announced in a special publication this week were Kenneth Allman of MountainPlex Properties in Hinton, Thomas Heywood of Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love in Charleston, Richard L. Slater of Dixon Hughes in Charleston, Kathy Clinton of Performance Results Corp. in Morgantown, Michael McWhorter of Landmark Forestry in Weston, Edwin Welch of the University of Charleston, and Harry Siegel of HMS Technologies in Martinsburg.

The newspaper's profile of Reynolds noted the growth of Champion Industries, which now includes more than a dozen businesses and The Herald-Dispatch, but also his contributions to the community and business in West Virginia.

Childers was recognized as the developer of several of Huntington's largest real estate projects, including Commerce Park on the West End and the East Hills Professional Center on Route 60.

All of the winners will be honored at a luncheon Feb. 5 at the Charleston Marriott. Reservations for the awards luncheon can be made online at www.statejournal.com or by calling Rebekah Hogue at 304 720-6527.

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