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Mercedes-Benz Oakville Autohaus celebrated its 50 years of business success recently with a dazzling event to open its new retail facility and unveil the Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan. The event brought together customers, friends, founding dealer Andy Meray and executives of Mercedes-Benz Canada to celebrate one of the longest running retailers of that car company in Canada. The gala event was hosted by the dealership’s owner Sylvester Chuang and his senior management team.
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Horizon Utilities Corporation has been honoured with the prestigious “Company of the Year” award by the Ontario Energy Association. The award was given to Horizon as a result of its being the first electricity distribution company in the province to publish a sustainability-based annual report - focusing on the social, environmental and economic dimensions of the company’s business and benchmarking its performance against an international standard for sustainability.
“We believe that embedding sustainable practices into our normal business practices will not only benefit our customers, the community we serve, the environment and our employees, but will also improve the company’s economic performance and long-term prospects for success,” says Max Cananzi, president and CEO of Horizon Utilities Corporation.
The report can be viewed on Horizon’s website www.horizonutilities.com.
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Four local chartered accountants have received special recognition from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO). Don Wray is one of three recipients of the 2009 Award of Outstanding Merit. Prior to his retirement, he at one time practiced out of the Hamilton office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and held board and committee roles with Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences and Hamilton Community Foundation.
The ICAO has also announced that it has elected 75 Ontario chartered accountants as fellows of the institute. They include Dr. Chris Bart, professor of Strategic Market Leadership at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business and Paul Gibel, partner at Hamilton’s MacGillivray Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors.
Stoney Creek chartered accountant Giacomo Angelini has been re-elected president of ICAO’s Hamilton District CA Association. Giacomo is a senior manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP in the firm’s national office in Toronto, where he deals with Canadian and U.S. securities matters.
Tricia Hellingman is president of Hellingman Communications, a Hamilton-based public relations and marketing agency. You can email her at thellingman@hellingman.com. BizzBuzz appears every other Friday.
