The Battlefords Business Excellence committee has announced a record number of application kits submitted for its 2016 BBEX Awards program. More than 40 application kits were counted in the submissions received to date. The deadline for submissions was July 22, with the committee awaiting any application kits post-marked by that date that will arrive by mail.
Once the committee is confident any mailed application kits are in hand, the submitted kits will be presented to the pre-selection committee made up of three local chartered accountants, who will generate a listing of the finalist businesses in each category. To be named a finalist, the application kit submitted must be completed in full, and the business must qualify for the category in which the application was submitted. Once qualified, the finalists' applications kits are forwarded to the anonymous jury for their selection of a winner in each of the open categories.
Once the list of finalists is submitted to the BBEX committee, the businesses will be notified and will be asked to complete their biography, which includes photographs for the video presentations the evening of the gala awards.
At the gala event in October, the awards for New Business Venture, Micro Business, Customer Service, Marketing, Community Contribution and Battlefords' Best Employer will be announced. From all of the finalists in each of these open categories, they will also reveal the Business of the Year in the Battlefords.
By Labour Day, the Heritage Award recipient will be announced, and tickets for the gala event will go on sale. The gala is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 4 at the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts. This is the 23rd annual presentation of the Battlefords Business Excellence Awards.
