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In 1984, Marie Bak was fortunate to have been sponsored and mentored by one of Minnesota’s foremost businessmen.  Curt Carlson of Carlson Companies was supportive of women-owned businesses, and despite being busy building a $20 billion dollar company, took the time to get Marie started in business with her first commercial janitorial account.

From that beginning SDQ is a leading full-service janitorial company providing services for all building types and sizes.  SDQ’s services have expanded to disaster clean up, furniture and millwork maintenance, carpet and window cleaning, supplying toiletries and even commercial moving and storage services.


Awards:

  • Ranked 3rd of Top 25 Janitorial Companies - Business Journal
  • Ranked 9th of Top 25 Minority Owned Companies- Business Journal
  • SDQ Ltd. ranked as one of the top 5000 companies in August 2009 INC 5000 publishing Click To View
  • M. Marie Bak receives the 2008 Pioneer Award - National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
  • M. Marie Bak receives the 2007 Industry Leader Award- Business Journal
  • M. Marie Bak featured in the Who's Who of Business- 2007 Business Journal: Book of Lists
  • Ranked 17th of the Top 25 Women Owned Companies - Business Journal
  • 2003 National Leadership Award- Congressman: Tom DeLay
  • Dirk Bak receives 40 under Forty Award- 2007 Business Journal

At a Glance:

Established: 1983
Number of Employees/Associates locally: 400+
Who uses our services:
Corporations, Property owners & managers, engineers, purchasing agents, facilities directors and any company that has the need of the services mentioned above.

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