TORONTO—PurchasingB2B, Canada’s magazine for procurement and supply chain management professionals, took home the Partnership of the Year Award at the Canadian Aboriginal & Minority Supplier Council’s (CAMSC) ninth-annual Business Achievement Awards.
The awards, held at Toronto’s Arcadian Court, celebrated the achievements of Canadian minority and Aboriginal businesses. The Partnership Award is given to an organization that works collaboratively with other organizations to strengthen Aboriginal and minority economic development and to facilitate supplier diversity.
Publisher Dorothy Jakovina and editor Michael Power accepted the award during the event.
Since 2011, PurchasingB2B has enjoyed a close relationship with CAMSC that has evolved into a formal partnership. Through its editorial content, PurchasingB2B has highlighted examples of leading practices in supplier diversity amongst Canadian companies and has profiled diverse suppliers that have delivered business value to their corporate clients.
CAMSC president Cassandra Dorrington participated in a thought leadership roundtable that PurchasingB2B hosted focusing on supplier diversity. Since then, PurchasingB2B has consulted with the organization on several occasions for articles and editorial reports related to supplier diversity. As well, earlier this year, Dorrington joined PurchasingB2B‘s editorial advisory board.
The award was one of seven given out that evening. The other awards and their winners were: Special Achievement Award—Senator Donald H. Oliver; Small Business of the Year—Master Manufacturing Inc.; Supplier of the Year—Forward Signs Inc.; CATA Alliance “Innovation Through Technology” Award—Nulogy; Procurement Advocate of the Year—Albert B.W. Lewis, Johnson Controls Inc.; and Corporation of the Year—TELUS.
