August 5, 2004
HEALEY HONORS ATTLEBORO COMPANY WITH GOVERNOR'S AWARD
ATTLEBORO—Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey today honored Rika Denshi America, Inc. with the Governor’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Award.
The Attleboro-based company is the latest recipient of this award, which is presented monthly as part of Governor Mitt Romney’s “Jobs First” initiative. The Entrepreneurial Spirit Award recognizes employers who best demonstrate the innovation and spirit that drive the Massachusetts economy and who inspire others to turn their ideas into action.
“Rika Denshi America is proof that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Attleboro,” said Healey. “Creating innovative high performance products for the semiconductor packaging and assembly markets has helped Rika Denshi compete effectively in a global economy.”
Founded in 1991, Rika Denshi began operations with only three employees, Larre Nelson, Ron Mendler, and Asako Phalon, who worked out of a small office on Pleasant Street in Attleboro.
The three men quickly transformed the small start-up company from a distributing operation to full-scale designing and manufacturing of custom test probes and interface structures. Today, Rika Denshi is an industry leader in the research and development of state-of-the-art fine-pitch test probes and high performance interconnects.
The company, which is actively involved in the Attleboro Area Chamber of Commerce and the local Workforce Investment Board, employs more than 70 people, many of them first-generation immigrants.
“This award is testimony to the can-do thinking that comes from fostering an entrepreneurial spirit in the workplace,” said Vice President and General Manager Larre Nelson. “It has led to our development of new, high-quality, cutting edge products used all over the world. We are grateful to the Romney Administration for its support.”
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