Business Milestones & Celebrations

Our annual Business Excellence Awards are a way of recognizing the amazing contributions of Chamber Members to our community.

Although we typically hold the Gala in the spring of every year, the event actually kicks off in the late fall of each year with the opening of Awards Nominations.  After nominations close and we’ve received confirmations from our nominees, a panel of objective judges from among our Membership spends weeks scrutinizing and weighing the information in the nomination packages.  The winners are kept secret until the Gala event, when our Members get together to celebrate the excellence and success of their peers and inspire one another by example.

Candidates, under consideration, must meet two or more of the following criteria:

• Recognition of outstanding achievement as an individual
• Recognition of long-standing involvement in community functions and services in the interest of business
• Member of longstanding participation on Committees and/or the Board of Directors, in the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, either as a principle or as an employee of a member firm
• Recipient of the Charles J. Carter Lifetime Business Achievement Award.