"On Wednesday June 4th, the first edition of the French-American Business Award ceremony was held at the General’s Residence in San Francisco. The event rewarded the best French entrepreneurs and corporate executives from the San Francisco Bay Area for their excellent results and lasting performance in management and leadership. Gold Award: Fruition Sciences: Founded in 2007, this company is now deployed in 3 continents. Over one hundred customers use its solution. While water scarcity is now a worldwide issue, jury members recognized the value of a simple and effective idea: making their clients save water, time and money."

" Fruition Sciences, which operates in both California and France, came first among 50 teams in Imagine H2O's global competition aimed at building a "Silicon Valley" for water. The prize rewards the business plans with the greatest promise of breakthroughs in the efficient use and supply of water, and Fruition was able to show significant water savings for nine California grape growers that used the monitor."

" Club 600 was established in 1985 by a group of French-speaking business executives in New York City. Their intention was to create a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences among Francophones living in New York and to contribute to the development of economic, commercial and financial relations between French and American business entities. The Club 600 Entrepreneurship Award was created to honor the memory of one of its members, the late Dominique Mercier, who was a very successful business entrepreneur. "