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Dodd’s, Balance Home Cleaning Top BE Awards ICTORIA – Dodd’s Furniture was named Business of the Year and Balance Home Cleaning Small Business of the Year at the 18th Annual Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards, celebrating the best of business on the island for the year, Thursday, Jan. 25 at the Delta Ocean Pointe Resort in Victoria. The sold-out event celebrated the best of the best of business on the island for the past year, and organizer Mark MacDonald, Publisher of Business Examiner Victoria, said it was a gathering of “all-stars” from across the region. “There were so many amazing companies represented, and brain power and creativity demonstrated by the people in the room was simply astounding,” he said. “There was a company represented that does sand blasting – with ice. A restaurant that has half of its staff with developmental disabilities. A firm that manufactures desalinated sea water. A
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Mazzei Electric President Ben Mazzei was pleased his company was named Trades Business of the Year at the Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards Jan. 25 in Victoria
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