Help to celebrate local business successes

The Celebrate Success 2012 Awards Gala will take place at Saskatoon Prairieland Park on May 17 from 5-10 pm. Tickets are $150 or $250 for two; a table of 8 can be had for $1,200. The gala celebrates the Saskatoon region’s best businesses.

The evening will start with a champagne reception followed by dinner and the awards program. The reception will be a good chance to network with the best of business in the area. Saskatoon business leaders will have plenty of time to pass on their business card. Printing extras before heading out to the Awards Gala will ensure that they have enough cards to hand out and that the ones they do hand out will be clean and crisp.

There are 12 awards in all which will be presented, finalists and recipients of the 2012 Celebrate Success Awards gain a minimum of $6,000 worth of benefits. The awards are:

1. SABEX Community Involvement
2. SABEX Customer Service
3. SABEX Environmental Sustainability
4. SABEX Growth and Expansion
5. SABEX Marketing
6. SABEX New Product and/or Service
7. SABEX Business of the Year
8. SABEX Small Business of the Year
9. SABEX Hall of Fame
10. Award of Innovation
11. Strategic Alliance Award
12. Community Leadership Award

There are many business awards presented in many communities in the United States and elsewhere. It is important that businesses be recognized when they go out of their way to be innovative or to offer their customers the best service they can. Other business leaders can learn from their example.