Member Profile: Kids & Company


Canada's leading provider of corporate-sponsored child care

Kids & Company, Canada's leading provider of corporate-sponsored child care, works directly with family-oriented corporations to develop progressive child care options that help address employees' work-life balance and productivity.

This company now brings to Halifax its offering of reliable, high quality child care that is flexible enough to meet most employees' needs. By partnering with Kids & Company, top-tier companies in various sectors are able to add child care assistance, including guaranteed full-time, part-time and emergency backup care, as well as elder care to their suite of employee benefits.

Membership is affordable even for smaller companies and offers high value to employees.

Established by Victoria Sopik in 2002, Kids & Company now has 24 child care centres across Canada. Please visit their website at www.kidsandcompany.ca

For membership information, registration of a child at a Kids & Company centre, or for more information about their flexible childcare and elder care options please contact:

Sharon Shoolman
Client Services Manager

Tel: 905-771-1153 ext 1030
Toll free: 1-866-MYKIDCO (695-4326)
sshoolman@kidsandcompany.ca




2010 Winners

The Halifax Business Awards are intended to recognize those businesses and business people in Halifax who exemplify the best that our city has to offer: innovators, who are willing to take chances, push the boundaries and stretch the limits for success.

The annual event, now in its tenth year, featured Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in four categories: New Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year, Business of the Year and Business Person of the Year.

 

Winners for New Business of the Year:

GOLD WINNER – CarShareHFX
SILVER WINNER – The Hub Space People Innovation Inc.
BRONZE WINNER – CEDIF Management Ltd.

Winners for Small Business of the Year:

GOLD WINNER- Lean Machine Healthy Vending Service Ltd.
SILVER WINNER – Nurtured (Nurtured Products for Parenting Inc.)
BRONZE WINNER  - Biscuit General Store

Winners for Business of the Year:

GOLD WINNER - Ocean Nutrition Canada Limited
SILVER WINNER –  Clayton Developments Limited
BRONZE WINNER – Lydon Lynch Architects Ltd.

Winners for Business Person of the Year:

GOLD WINNER –  Peter Conlon, Nautel Ltd.
SILVER WINNER –  Gordon Stevens, The Uncommon Group of Companies
BRONZE WINNER – Mike Hachey, Egg Films and Hatch Post

The Chamber would like to extend a huge thanks to all the sponsors for the 2010 Halifax Business Awards. Category sponsors: Stewart McKelvey, RBC, BDC, and Grant Thornton, technical partner Advanced Systems, décor partner Simple Touch and of course The Globe and Mail who has been the presenting sponsor of the Awards since 2000.