Area company wins U.S. Senate recognition

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Medical lab and supply distribution firm Mercedes Scientific has been named U.S. Senate Small Business of the Week.

U.S. Senator, Marco Rubio, R-Miami, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship announced the recognition for Lakewood Ranch-based Mercedes in a June 24 video message. The company, which did $45 million in revenue in 2019 and has 67 employees, moved into its new headquarters, in Lakewood Ranch’s CORE science and lifestyle-themed corporate park in late 2018. (CORE stands for Collaboration Opportunities for Research and Exploration.)