Westbank Company Honoured with Aboriginal Business Award – KelownaNow
The sixth annual BC Aboriginal Business Awards were handed out in Vancouver and a Westbank business was among the group recognized.
In 2008 the awards were launched to honour and celebrate business excellence in six categories. This year a total of 17 Aboriginal businesses, entrepreneurs, joint ventures and community owned enterprises were recognized. Heartland Economics Ltd. in Westbank was recognized as a recipient for Community Owned Business of the Year.
“The recent surge in Aboriginal businesses in BC has created economic development initiatives in every corner of the province,” said Kevin Bent, director of the BC Achievement Foundation, the presenting organization of the BC Aboriginal Business Awards. “Recipients exemplify the best of vision, enterprise, resourcefulness and entrepreneurship in Aboriginal business.”
