The following businesses are all finalists of the Torch Awards 2010, an event to celebrate marketplace excellence.
Each company clearly demonstrates superior character on a daily basis and goes the extra mile in its relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, industry peers and in the communities they do business in.
Marketplace Excellence is presented to a business in recognition of their superior commitment to exceptional standards that benefit their consumers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and surrounding communities.
The Marketplace Excellence 2011 finalists are:
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Surrey’s Papa Plumbing and Heating & Drainage Ltd's mission: “To provide fair, ethical and honest service to our customers, to our co-workers and to ourselves.” Papa Plumbing and Heating encourages their employees to think and act ethically with their customers and their competitors. They are very engaged in local media and have ventured into a successful outreach campaign through social media.
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Webnames.ca began as a spin-off from the Internet pioneers who founded the .CA country code in 1987. Vancouver’s Webnames.ca maintains a strong corporate culture, founded on integrity and ethical practices in all aspects of their business. Webnames.ca is dedicated to exceptional customer service in its Customer Support Code of Ethics and making a difference in its industry.
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Blue Crest Electric’s mission: “We commit to honesty and integrity while providing exceptional service to our clients, keeping their safety and security as our priority.” Abbottsford-based, Blue Crest Electric goes the extra mile in assuring their client’s personal safety and is one of only a handful of service companies in British Columbia that proudly carries the Technician’s Seal of Safety. Blue Crest Electric and its electricians feel each client has the right to feel safe in their own home.
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The Green Award, in partnership with BC Ethics in Action Society, honours a business for its programs or initiatives which promoted forward-thinking, sustainable business practice.
The Green Award 2010 finalists are:
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Vancouver-based, Green Chair Events believes that communities should collaborate with each other to achieve sustainability. Green Chair Events is well-known in community event waste reduction offering recycling management services for community events, such as the Vancouver Sun Run and the Point Grey Fiesta.
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Lunapads International Ltd. is a women-owned, Vancouver-based business that specializes in environmentally friendly alternatives to disposable feminine hygiene products; namely, washable and reusable menstrual pads and panties.
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Vancouver-based, Modo the Car Coop is dedicated to making a positive impact on the environment by providing consumers with an alternative to owning a vehicle. Car-sharing helps to reduce a person carbon footprint, and Modo provides consumers with green hybrid and gas-electric vehicles to choose from.
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Pacific Community Resources is committed to community-based research, advocacy, and community development to identify service gaps and strategies to address social problems such as poverty, child abuse, mental health, substance abuse, violence and homelessness. |
The winners for the Marketplace Excellence and Green Award will be announced and presented at the Torch Awards luncheon on Wednesday, October 26, 2010 at the Metropolitan Hotel in Vancouver.
Also part of the Awards program will be the Advancing Marketplace Trust Award, which is presented to a business in recognition of an action, program, or sustainment activities that significantly and positively contribute to advancing trust in the marketplace.
A Consumer Leadership Award will also be presented to an individual who has significantly advanced marketplace trust through consumer advocacy, protection or education, through a specific action or lifetime achievement.
Winners of the Consumer Leadership Award and Advancing Marketplace Trust Award will be announced on Wednesday, October 26, 2011.