Best of business awards

Kootenay Business readers choose their favourites

This year is our 11th year of presenting the awards, which recognize exceptional businesses throughout the region for their high level of customer service and dedication to excellence. We are often asked, “How are the business winners selected for a Best of Business Award?” The Best of Business Awards is not a subjective choosing by Kootenay Business management or staff, but rather the result of carefully tabulating the responses from the reader surveys that are distributed in our March/April magazine.

This year, over 300 surveys were returned, resulting in 10,894 individual nominations. Our surveys are then tabulated by East Kootenay and West Kootenay, thus giving equal representation to both regions. We are pleased to provide this opportunity for the readers of Kootenay Business to share who they consider to be the best in business in the Kootenays, and we congratulate all of the award winners.

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Best of business

Reader survey prizes

Kootenay Business would like to thank all our readers who took the time to submit the reader survey to help us determine the Best of Business award winners.

From that pool of submissions we drew the following winners:

1. Grand prize: Two nights’ accommodation in one of the Kootenays’ Prestige Hotels & Resorts theme suites and a complimentary breakfast.

   Winner: Bill Shuttleworth, Revelstoke, B.C.

   Grand prize sponsor: www.prestigehotelsandresorts.com

2. 2nd prize: A $100 gift certificate to the winner’s choice of one of the award-winning businesses.

   Winner: Marie Pare, Kaslo, B.C.

3. 3rd prize: A $50 gift certificate to the winner’s choice of one of the award-winning businesses.

   Winner: C.N. Johnston, Cranbrook, B.C.

Did we miss a category? We always invite our readers to suggest new categories to include in next year’s Best of Business survey. E-mail Kootenay Business