Also recognized at the ceremony were the winners of the Best Undergraduate Student Family Business Paper Award. Vicki Bourke, Agnes Katsouros, Daisy Niang, and Same Robin submitted an outstanding paper on the business Verti Store. The paper formed part of their course work from their Entrepreneurial Family Business course offered at JMSB. The judges, Ronald Abraira, lecturer, John Molson School of Business, Young-Chul Jeong, assistant professor, John Molson School of Business and Mohamed Meskaoui, winner of the 2011 Fuller Landau Best Student Paper Award, felt the students submitted a comprehensive and well-written report. The judges praised the students for their application of theories, in-depth analysis, reasoning processes and writing quality.
The awards were announced at the Fuller Landau Family Business Awards luncheon at Concordia’s John Molson School of Business on May 13, 2013.
Quebec Companies Honoured at 2013 Fuller Landau Family Business Awards
Concordia University's John Molson School of Business (JMSB) and accounting firm Fuller Landau LLP announced the winners of the 2013 Fuller Landau Family Business Awards. Now in its third year, the awards recognize Quebec-based family-owned businesses whose policies and business practices have had a positive impact on the community and stimulate economic growth.
Image24, the award recipient in the Medium Business Category, is the call center division of Télé-Page, an award winning communications industry leader since 1970. The comments from the judges included praise for the firm’s financial success, their ability to consistently evolve with new technologies and their creation of the Art for Healing Foundation.
Allez Up, winner in the Small Business Category, is an indoor rock climbing business founded in 1996 and acquired by the Richer-de la Plante family in September 2003. The judges felt that their entrepreneurial drive, commitment to community and positive family dynamics made Allez Up the clear winner in this category.
"Fuller Landau considers it an honour to provide some of Québec's leading family-owned businesses with well-earned recognition. Congratulations and well done to our winners" said Michael Newton, Managing Partner of Fuller Landau LLP. "We received a record number of entries this year, and the judges were impressed with all our nominees. Their decisions were not easy ones" said Dr. Alexandra Dawson, Assistant Professor of Management at the John Molson School of Business and Chair of the judging panel.
Award winners were evaluated based on financial success of the company, quality of business and family linkages, multi-generational family involvement, contributions to the community and industry, and innovative business practices or strategies. Nominations were reviewed by a panel of judges, which included Alexandra Dawson, John Molson School of Business, Terry Didus, partner, Heenan Blaikie LLP, J. Sebastian Van Berkom, president and CEO, Van Berkom and Associates Inc., as well as last year's winners Daniele Henkel, owner and founder of the Daniele Henkel Wellness Company and Natanya Khazzam of Heritage Linencraft.
