To recognize their father’s entrepreneurial spirit, the Shorma family annually honors other family business leaders. The Edward Shorma Excellence in Family Business Award was established by the Shorma family through the Prairie Family Business Association in 2015 to recognize and celebrate multigenerational family businesses that positively impact the economy and the region.
This year, the Shorma Family Business Award honoree is a family business with roots going all the way back to 1686 in Germany. The Matthaei family of Fargo-based DakotaMB can trace its entrepreneurial history to a family bakery in Marburg, Germany.
