Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
I had an opportunity to chat with our President and CEO, Kevin Boyce, just prior to the holidays. We asked if he would like to write a blog post related to our official supplier status for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games. He worked with Tonia and I on creating this message and we are delighted to post it on his behalf. Kevin looks forward to reviewing your responses and Tonia will make sure that we get back to you in a timely manner…over to Kevin…
(Voir en français ci-après)
I am delighted to post this blog today formally announcing that Molson will be the official beer supplier to Canada’s Games in Vancouver in 2010. Molson is proud to play our part in celebrating with Canadians leading up to and including the games. It is a proud moment for all of our employees, customers and suppliers to be hosting this world event in British Columbia and with Canadians from coast to coast to coast. No doubt you will see that pride showing through in the videos accompanying this post.
Molson will be supporting a number of initiatives leading up to the games through various employee and brand activities. Please join with us in supporting the games and Team Canada as we count down to February 12, 2010 in Vancouver. We look forward to playing our part to make this a truly memorable event for all Canadians.
Our social media team will be highlighting a number of our activities right here on our Molson Community Blog in the weeks and months to follow (Thanks to Tonia for inserting the links for me in this post!).
Cheers,
Kevin Boyce
(Traduction intégrale du message original de Kevin en anglais ici-haut)
Je suis ravi de profiter aujourd’hui de notre blogue communautaire pour vous annoncer formellement que Molson sera le fournisseur officiel de bière des Jeux d’hiver de Vancouver 2010. Molson est fière de faire sa part dans les célébrations qui précéderont et entoureront les Jeux. Tous nos employés, clients et fournisseurs d’un océan à l’autre sont fiers d’accueillir le monde en Colombie-Britannique dans le cadre de ce grand événement planétaire — une fierté qui ne fait d’ailleurs aucun doute dans les vidéos qui accompagnent le présent message.
Molson organisera de nombreuses activités centrées sur ses employés et sur ses marques d’ici le grand jour de l’ouverture des Jeux. Je vous invite donc à vous joindre à nous pour exprimer votre appui au Comité organisateur ainsi qu’à l’équipe olympique canadienne pendant le décompte vers l’ouverture officielle, qui aura lieu le 12 février 2010 à Vancouver. Nous sommes impatients de faire notre part pour faire de cet événement un moment réellement inoubliable pour tous les Canadiens.
Notre équipe des médias sociaux vous présentera d’ailleurs plusieurs activités ici même, sur le blogue communautaire de Molson, au cours des prochaines semaines et des prochains mois (merci à Tonia pour son aide dans l’insertion des hyperliens!). Demeurez à l’écoute!
Salutations,
Kevin Boyce
English VLOG
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French VLOG
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Posted by Ferg Devins in Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
“Tis the season” for those year-end review stories, so we thought it would be fitting to try to capture some of the great work Molson and its employees have done in the past 12 months to help benefit community organizations in towns and cities all across Canada. With the holidays about to end, there’s still time for all Canadians to make a contribution in 2008 to their own communities. That being said, to help play our part, I’ve listed some details about the great organizations and individuals that we’ve been privileged enough to work with in the past year. We hope you’ll consider sharing a little of yourself this holiday with those less fortunate.
Some of the organizations and initiatives that stand out for me in 2008:
Raising the Roof is an organization that builds partnerships across the nation to help solve youth homlessness. Molson has supported their Youthworks program for three years, but also has a very special story with them. On February 5th, 2008, over 1,100 Molson employees sold toques on Toque Tuesday (RTR’s national fundraiser), raising just over $90,000 in about one hour. This event was also the day we launched this blog! To donate
I’ve written about Meal Exchange a few times on this blog and one of their employees wrote a great guest blog. Meal Exchange is a national student-founded, youth-driven, charity organized to address local hunger by mobilizing the talent and passion of students. To donate
United Way….wow – this a great one. Every year Molson has an internal United Way campaign, and this year was out best ever! We raised $610,000 this year (increase of 15% from 2007). Amazing effort from our employees across Canada. To donate
Framework Foundation/Timeraiser
Framework Foundation promotes volunteerism amongst Canadians in their 20s to 30s by helping volunteer agencies find the skilled people their organization needs – Molson is a founding sponsor of Timeraiser, an event that is part volunteer fair, part silent art auction and part night on the town that connects volunteers with volunteer agencies. I took part in the Toronto Timeraiser for the first time this year and it was one of the best events I went to in 2008.
A national literacy organization that Molson has worked with for years. We were given the Frontier College Fitzpatrick award this year. To donate
Again, these are just a few of the MANY organizations that Molson was involved with across Canada in 2008 – the above are initiatives that I was lucky to directly be a part of.
In 2008 Molson reached out to just over 200 organizations. Here are links to some of them organizations (by region), and to view all the Molson in the Community photos from 2008 — click here.
Maritimes:
Newfoundland:
Ontario:
Quebec:
West:
What is YOUR favourite community organization/initiative this year?
Posted by Tonia Hammer in Community
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Posted by Ferg Devins in Molson Family
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
In Adam’s blog yesterday, he mentioned that we created some custom Molson Canadian jerseys for the Kandahar Hockey League (KLH) in Afghanistan.
Well, the jerseys arrived at Molson in Toronto this morning and we’ll be shipping them out later today….but first, we thought we’d model them for all to see! (Thanks to my fabulous Molson models Paul and Barb).
Each Jersey is personalized for the players (Paul)
Face-off (Me, Barb, Paul)….I won
The KHL team logo on the front (Paul)
We’ve asked the team to send a group photo once they’ve received the jerseys so I can post it here too. Cheers and good luck in the playoffs!
Posted by Tonia Hammer in Community
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Supporting our Troops has been a longstanding tradition at Molson dating back to the late 18th century, when John Molson himself would brew beer for soldiers stationed near Montreal. Today, it’s our great pleasure and honour to continue that tradition by sharing a little piece of home with those brave men and women deployed all over the world representing our country so well.
So once again this year we’ve sent over 10,000 cans of Molson Canadian to soldiers stationed all over the world, from Afghanistan to Southwest Asia. The beer is designated for special occasions set to take place on Canadian Bases such as Christmas and New Year’s Eve, when off-duty soldiers can partake in the season’s festivities. In addition to our beer donation, we’re also donating 3,000 custom-designed baseball caps – one for every single deployed troop. The caps will be included in holiday care packages sent by the Department of National Defense’s Operation Santa Claus program.
One final story to share with you that makes us all proud is about a call we received through our consumer hotline back in November from Kandahar. Ryan Seguin from the TUAV (Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) flight group in Afghanistan told us about his team that plays in the KHL – Kandahar Hockey League – who play twice a week when they are not operationally committed. Ryan tells us that playing in the KHL is an excellent opportunity to give their minds a rest and gives them a taste of home. Ryan was looking for a sponsor for the team’s jerseys and obviously we jumped at the chance to support Ryan and his teammates. We’ve since created a custom jersey for their team, which we hope will arrive on the ground soon, just in time for the playoffs. Good luck boys!
So, from all of us here at Molson – happy holidays to all of our Canadian Armed Forces and their families. Please know that wherever you’re spending the holidays this year we are thinking of you and raising a toast to your brave service.
We encourage anyone else looking to make a donation to our Canadian Troops to visit the following sites to find out more about how you can help.
Canadian Forces Personal and Family Support Services
Send a holiday message to the Troops
Read messages from the Troops
Canadian Forces on Facebook
And here are some other Canadian Military Blogs you may want to check out. Cheers.
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?cid=326&sc=110
http://www.alphamikefox.blogspot.com
http://rmcnavyguy.blogspot.com/
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/
http://assolutatranquillita.blogspot.com/
Canadian Armed Forces Blogger
Military Mom at Home
Posted by Adam Moffat in Community
