Ten Sunshine Coast businesses are up for Small Business BC Awards, across several categories and, in some cases, in multiple categories.
Rockin’ Deed, a business dedicated to “spreading kindness through art,” is up for the Premier People’s Choice award and Best Community Impact.
Sunshine Tiny Homes has been nominated in the People’s Choice category.
Deckhand Cleaning Company, a start-up in its first year, is also nominated in more than one category – People’s Choice and Best Youth Entrepreneur.
Deckhand is one of two local companies nominated in the Youth Entrepreneur category; the other is Beyond BnB Management.
High Beam Dreams, which bought the former Gibsons United Church about three years ago and converted into a daycare space and performance and event venue, is up for an award in the Best Immigrant Entrepreneur category.
Yellobean Total Clean is also nominated in the Best Immigrant Entrepreneur category.
Ginger Jars, a company that reuses culled produce from retailers and farmers to create its products while fighting food waste, is nominated for Best Community Impact.
Rhiza Capital, an investment management firm specializing in social ventures, is also nominated for Best Community Impact.
Coast Lifestyle Co., a retailer in Gibsons, is in the running for Best Marketer.
And, Emelle’s Catering which operates the café at the Gibsons Public Market as well as an extensive catering operation in the Vancouver area, is nominated in four categories: People's Choice, Community Impact, Best Marketer and Best Employer.
People can vote until Nov. 30 at sbbcawards.ca/nominees, then the top 10 in each category will move on to the semi-finals, which run from December to January.
The awards will be presented in Vancouver Feb. 21, 2020.
Past winners from the Sunshine Coast include the Gibsons Butcher, which was the 2017 People’s Choice winner, as well as Target Marine Hatcheries, which won for Best International Trade in 2014, and Gibsons Recycling Depot, which was the 2012 winner for Best Green Business.
