HED Awards & Recognition

Manitoba's Top Employers
For the second year in a row, HED is very proud to have been named a top employer in Manitoba. This award is in recognition of HED's successful practices to recruit and retain employees. Our continued proactive commitment to keeping current our human resources policies and procedures, technology tools as well as work practices including providing our employees with unparalleled career opportunities, have all afforded the company with a reputation to attract and retain good people.

LANSA Review
HED has been featured in the December 2007 issue of the LANSA Review,
which includes a case study of our company and how we used LANSA
Software to create a solution for business success. The Information Technology
& Business Systems department at HED developed the new LANSA based
Insurance Management System and Customer Relationship Management
(IMS-CRM) system to keep track of all prospect and customer activity. “By
providing a flexible CRM solution to our users and real-time system
integration, we have reduced application complexity and improved the
efficiency of business procedures,” says Brian Hynes, Vice President, Information
Technology & Business Systems.

Canada's Top 100 Employers
MacLean’s Magazine, through MediaCorp Canada, publishes it’s annual Top 100 Employers in Canada. Every year several thousands of companies are invited to apply, with the top 1000 published in MediaCorp’s “Career Directory” highlighting the 1000 best employers for recent college and university graduates. In addition, companies are listed in a digest of “Who’s Hiring” in Canada which serves as a valuable tool for job seekers. Of those companies, the top 100 best employers are selected. 2007 marks the fourth consecutive year HED has made the short list of some 200 companies.

Best in Business Practices Award
HED is proud to announce that it has been awarded a Manitoba Business Magazine Best in Business Practices award. The award was presented to Art Elias, President and CEO, at the 20th Annual Entrepreneur of the Year and Best in Business Practices Awards Banquet held on May 31, 2007. According to Ritchie Gage, Editor-in-Chief of Manitoba Business Magazine, “These awards are for Manitoba-based companies that have demonstrated success through sound management practices in maintaining and growing a company.”

Excellence in Leadership Award
HED, along with 11 other Manitoba based companies, has been named as a recipient of the "Excellence in Leadership Award", as selected by the Board of Directors and Awards Selection Committee of the Human Resource Management Association of Manitoba (HRMAM). HED was presented with a bronze award in recognition of recent changes to our Intranet, which serves as a good example of a human resource program or practice which 'enhances our ability to engage (retain) its employees'.

Top 100 Companies/50 Fastest-Growing Companies
Manitoba Business Magazine is the leading source of business news in Manitoba. Their flagship magazine editions are the Top 100 Companies Survey and the 50 Fastest-Growing Companies Survey. HED has once again been recognized in
both categories.

The 2006 Top 100 Companies Survey ranks businesses based on the 2005 year end financials, present gross sales as well as interesting performance commentary incorporated in Manitoba.

HED is very proud to have ranked number 28 in the Manitoba Business Magazine's 50 Fastest-Growing Companies Survey in 2008.

Award of Excellence
The Manitoba Hotel Association received an award from an international group of hotel associations for best membership program. The award recognizes the MHA’s successful self-insurance based program with HED, which launched on March 1, 2004. The Award of Excellence was bestowed by the International Society of Hotel Association Executives (ISHAE) at their annual convention in December 2004. It is the first time an association outside the U.S. has received such an award.