Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing Announces Canada’s Best Small & Medium Employers
Posted on February 10, 2010
Survey reveals employee engagement at an all-time high among winners
Kingston, ON – Fifty organizations from across the country have been selected as the Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada in a study released today by Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing (QCBV) at Queen’s School of Business in conjunction with Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and outsourcing company. Canadian organizations with between 50 and 399 permanent employees are eligible to participate in the ranking.
“Despite the challenging economy over the past year, employee engagement among the fifty organizations selected as the best rose to the highest level seen in the study’s six-year history,” said survey co-ordinator Einar Westerlund, director of project development at QCBV. “This reflects employers’ attention to the ‘people side’ of their enterprises during both the good and the not-so-good times. The best continue to achieve success by paying disciplined attention to the basics of effective human resources management, with special strength shown in how their people’s performance is managed.”
The Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada study focuses on measuring employee engagement, and allows employers to discover the degree of intellectual and emotional commitment employees have in their workplace. Each organization’s results are benchmarked; this allows companies to gauge their strengths against others in their specific industry or overall.
“The businesses and public service institutions selected for this year’s list provide a reflection of the true diversity of the SME sector in Canada — a community which by far includes more employees than any other sector in the country,” said Westerlund.
50 Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada of 2010:
| 1 | Booty Camp Fitness Inc. | Toronto | ON |
| 2 | ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd. | Edmonton | AB |
| 3 | Hood Group | Sherwood Park | AB |
| 4 | RL Solutions | Toronto | ON |
| 5 | Radiology Consultants Associated | Calgary | AB |
| 6 | Concept Electric Ltd. | Calgary | AB |
| 7 | Gibraltar Solutions Inc. | Mississauga | ON |
| 8 | PEOPLEsource Staffing Solutions | Toronto | ON |
| 9 | EPIC Information Solutions Inc. | Winnipeg | MB |
| 10 | Vista Projects Limited | Calgary | AB |
| 11 | Kawartha Credit Union Limited | Peterborough | ON |
| 12 | Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP | Vancouver | BC |
| 12 | FUSE Marketing Group Inc. | Toronto | ON |
| 13 | Unitron Hearing Ltd. | Kitchener | ON |
| 14 | Miele Ltd. | Vaughan | ON |
| 15 | McMillan | Ottawa | ON |
| 16 | Teva Neuroscience Canada | Montreal | QC |
| 17 | CBCI Telecom Canada Ltd. | Lachine | QC |
| 18 | Accubid Systems | Concord | ON |
| 19 | Habañero Consulting Group | Vancouver | BC |
| 20 | Solutions 2 GO Inc. | Mississauga | ON |
| 21 | Benefits by Design Inc. | Port Coquitlam | BC |
| 22 | Nintendo of Canada Ltd. | Vancouver | BC |
| 23 | Peel Senior Link | Mississauga | ON |
| 24 | Wakefield Canada Inc. | Toronto | ON |
| 25 | Stewart Weir | Sherwood Park | AB |
| 26 | Quadra Chemicals Ltd | Vaudreuil-Dorion | QC |
| 27 | Birchwood Automotive Group | Winnipeg | MB |
| 28 | Klick Inc. | Toronto | ON |
| 29 | Lakeside Process Controls Ltd. | Mississauga | ON |
| 30 | Carma Developers | Calgary | AB |
| 31 | MKS Inc. | Waterloo | ON |
| 32 | Greater Edmonton Foundation: Housing for Seniors | Edmonton | AB |
| 33 | Halogen Software Inc. | Kanata | ON |
| 34 | CWB Group | Mississauga | ON |
| 35 | Sparling’s Propane Co. Limited | Blyth | ON |
| 36 | Maple Reinders Constructors Ltd. | Mississauga | ON |
| 37 | Uvalux Tanning & Support | Woodstock | ON |
| 38 | Cole Engineering Group Ltd. | Markham | ON |
| 39 | Kingston Ross Pasnak LLP | Edmonton | AB |
| 40 | Allergan Inc. | Markham | ON |
| 41 | Cruickshank Construction Limited | Kingston | ON |
| 42 | Cambridge Public Library Board | Cambridge | ON |
| 43 | Getinge Canada Limited | Mississauga | ON |
| 44 | Spectra Credit Union | Estevan | SK |
| 45 | National Leasing | Winnipeg | MB |
| 46 | Terracon Geotechnique Ltd. | Fort McMurray | AB |
| 47 | Mennonite Savings and Credit Union | Kitchener | ON |
| 48 | Gateway Mechanical Services | Edmonton | AB |
| 49 | Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House | Vancouver | BC |
| 50 | L’Union Canadienne | Quebec City | QC |
While this year’s list of the Best Small & Medium Employers has just been released, the next study is already underway with registration now open. For more information or to register for the upcoming survey, please visit: business.queensu.ca/bsme
About Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing (QCBV)
Based at Queen’s School of Business, Canada’s leading business school, QCBV’s mandate is to become the leading and definitive source of knowledge and expertise in the creation, leadership and management of new ventures. It will accomplish this by developing innovative curriculum, providing access to pools of capital to fund new ventures, conducting applied research, brokering and being a hub of SME and new venture knowledge, and by playing a key role with decision-making bodies.
###
For more information please contact the Centre for Business Venturing at 1.877.955.1800 or business.queensu.ca/bsme