BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARDS
The Business Excellence Awards were held at the Kimberley Conference Centre on January 14, 2023 and the winners in each award category were revealed. And the 2022 Business Excellence Awards winners are:
Home and Mobile Business of the Year Award
Kootenay Canine Adventures
Business to Business Excellence Award
Nicole Leclair Photography
Health, Wellness and Fitness Award
Iron Goat CrossFit
Professional Services Award
Fine + Well Health & Chiropractic
Trades Business or Person of the Year Award
Sommer Electric
Retail Services Award
Treehouse Toy Co
Tourism and Hospitality Award
The Sullivan Pub
Stan Salikin Community Impact Award
Shannon Duncan - Healthy Kimberley Food Recovery
Employee of the Year Award
Brittney McLean - Spirit Rock Climbing Centre
Rising Star Award
Kickturn Coffee
Keystone Award
Nina's Hillside Garden
Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Jaime Gordon - Funk Haus Craft Lab
Business of the Year Award
It’s a tie! Bootleg Bike Co. and Stoke Market
Thank you to all of those that attended the event, our volunteers and to all of our event and awards sponsors: Teck, Columbia Basin Trust, Exact Tax, Genex Marketing, College of the Rockies, Hollywood North Wealth, Save-On-Foods, Kootenay Savings Credit Union, Tourism Kimberley, City of Kimberley, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, BDO, Sun Life I Silver Path Financial Solutions Inc, Rewind Radio and Wild 104-7 a division of Pattison Media, and The Kimberley Bulletin.
The well attended event featured Master of Ceremonies Helen Barron, Executive Director of Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce, guest speaker Mayor Don McCormick, keynote speaker Duncan MacLeod, CEO and Head of School of Purcell Collegiate and music by d’linquint and Kootenay Lately.