Molson in the Community

Our award!

L to R: Bryan Cox, Molson Coors Canada; Wade Bayne, Molson Coors Canada

L to R: Wade Bayne, Molson Coors; Peter Barnett; Ron Putzi, KITSFEST; Thomas DeSchutter, Chair, Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce; Bryan Cox, Molson Coors; Howard Kelsey, KITSFEST; Julien Phpps, KITSFEST; KITSFEST

We are very proud to announce that last night at the 2009 Westside Business Awards of Distinction Dinner, hosted by the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce at the Vancouver Yacht Club, Molson Coors Canada was awarded the 2009 Westside Business of the Year!

This award is given annually to the Westside business which has made an outstanding contribution in the combined areas of overall business success, innovation and community service. We are extremely honoured to have been judged worthy of this prestigious community award from amongst several nominees.

We at Molson Coors are very proud of our 51 year history of brewing beer in our Burrard St. brewery and our overall 223 year legacy of brewing Canada’s favourite beers and helping to build Canada’s communities through our extensive community involvement.  Locally, we are proud sponsors of many initiatives including the Corona Open and KITSFEST, which was the winner of the Westside Community Spirit Award last night (congrats to Howard Kelsey and his team for their win!). And at our Vancouver brewery, we are proud of our achievement in reducing our energy consumption by almost 20% in the last 5 years, with more sustainability efforts in the works.

We are proud to play our part  in the Kitsilano community to help make Vancouver and Canada a great place to live and play and are looking forward to helping the world celebrate as Official Beer Supplier to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Cheers to all of the finalists and winners from last night.

Cheers!

@MolsonBryan

We are very proud to announce that our Burrard St Brewery, situated in the beautiful and historic Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, has been nominated as a finalist for Business of the Year by the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce.  The winner will be announced at the upcoming Westside Business Awards of Distinction on October 21st.

Molson Coors is proud of the prominent role we play in Vancouver. We have been brewing on our Burrard St. site for over 51 years and are heavily involved in the local community through our many initiatives and sponsorships, including this summer’s KitsFest. And, we are very much looking forward to helping Vancouver welcome the world in February as the Official Beer Supplier to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Our thanks to the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce for honouring us with this nomination.

Cheers!

@MolsonBryan

Le jeudi 17 septembre, Molson et Club Médaille d’Or avons procédé à la remise de bourses à des athlètes du Québec, dont Marie-Pier Dupuis en handball, Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto en gymnastique et Valérie Lefebvre en haltérophilie. Cette activité représentait le coup d’envoi de la nouvelle saison 2009/10 du Club Médaille d’Or. Nous souhaitons donc une très belle année et de belles levées de fonds au Club.

Carole and I recently attended the Ontario Community Newspaper Association (OCNA) awards dinner to present the Molson Community Award in Memory of Mary Knowles for 2008.

A little background on the award:

The Molson Community Award in Memory of Mary Knowles was created by the Ontario Community Newspapers Foundation, the charitable division of OCNA which provides funding for industry and educational endeavours.

Mary Knowles was a dedicated newspaper person, and active community member who died from breast cancer in November of 1996. This award recognizes both the contributions of individuals, and the intimate connection community newspapers have with their communities.

Me (Tonia) and Mike – smile!

This year’s award went to a very deserving Mike Williscraft of the Grimsby Lincoln News and Niagara This Week, who, after meeting and reading about his community dedication, is one of my new favourite people to talk to about community relations, journalism, hockey, and yes, even old school rock.

Mike’s community roots go deep, so I’ll give you a quick bio which won’t do him justice, but is at least a great start.

Since starting the Grimsby Lincoln News more than twelve years ago, Mike Williscraft has prided himself in supporting the community both through his work at the newspaper and on his own time. Whether it’s for amateur sports, economic development, or arts and culture, Mike tries to contribute to all sectors of the community. Mike plays his part with numerous organizations – serving as a consistent supporter of both the Grimsby and Lincoln Chambers of Commerce, the Grimsby Downtown Improvement Area Board, the Peninsula Ridge Founder’s Club, and the Kinsmen Club of Grimsby. He is also a charter board member for Leadership Niagara, a highly respected volunteer development program in the region.

When Mike is not working for those organizations, he is organizing Family Skates to support the local food bank, mini-putt tournaments to raise money for the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation, and even coaching a basketball team through the Grimsby Basketball Association.

Additional coverage of the event/award:

• http://www.thegrimsbylincolnnews.com/opinions/article/249622
• http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/250098
• http://www.ocna.org/communityserviceaward
• http://www.thegrimsbylincolnnews.com/news/article/244760

We’re proud to play our part and support people playing their part in their communities.  Congrats to Mike for the award and also for his upcoming new position as President of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association.

Cheers, @toniahammer

The Club Médaille d’Or Gold Medal

Le jeudi 23 avril dernier, j’ai eu le privilège et l’honneur de recevoir, au nom de Molson, une médaille d’or décernée aux partenaires de longue date du Club Médaille d’Or, un organisme qui encourage, promouvoit et reconnaît le développement de nos athlètes partout au Québec. J’ai trouvé exceptionnelle l’idée que cette médaille nous soit remise par le biais de deux athlètes olympiques, soit Sandra Sassine (escrime) et Marie-Ève Marleau (plongeon).

L-R: Bernard Trottier, Robert Labelle, Monique Dépatie de Molson, Brigitte Frot, Jacques Boucher et Ian Champagne, member du Conseil d’administration du Club Médaille d’Or.

Cette activité s’est tenue au Club Antique dans l’Est de Montréal, où plus de 200 convives étaient présents. Quelle belle soirée en compagnie de la communauté sportive montréalaise. J’en profite pour féliciter les athlètes et les anciens athlètes qui se sont déplacé pour rendre hommage à tous les partenaires du Club.

Molson est fière de faire sa part et d’appuyer le Club Médaille d’Or et ses athlètes, et ce, puis les tout débuts du Club, il y a maintenant 40 ans.

Molson, le plus vieux partenaire du Club, félicite et remercie le Club Médaille d’Or pour cette soirée reconnaissance. Longue vie au Club!

I had the opportunity to attend the recent Packaging Association of Canada Leadership Awards dinner. I struggled with whether I should write a public blog on this matter. It’s obviously an achievement and story that we will talk about and celebrate internally at Molson. Yet, our packaging and designs of our brands are truly for the consumer, the beer drinker.  Therefore I thought that it was important to share that Molson achieved 2 Gold, 3 Silver and a Leader Among Leaders Award this past weekfrom PAC. The brand awards included tributes to Coors Light, Molson Export,   Black Horse and Carling. Beer drinkers would likely love to know that their brand of choice is also a leader in packaging and design.

We were also humbled by being named the recipient of the Inaugural Leader Among Leaders Award in recognition for exceptional technical reproduction and innovative levels for graphics and structure, robust brand identity and package inegrity, outstanding stustainable packaging leadership in extended producer responsibility, long before it was invented and a globally recognised closed loop system. (these descriptors are directly from the materials produced by PAC in describing the award) Molson continues to be proud to play our part in Canada and across the entire Molson Coors enterprise in all that we do with respect to sustainability initiatives and learning. 

I’m proud to share this achievement with you and proud to raise a toast to our pacakging team and internal Molson Studio that continue to deliver exceptional designs, creativity and innovation in all that they do.
Cheers @MolsonFerg

What a fantastic night for the Edmonton arts community on Monday night at the Winspear Theatre for the 22nd annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts. Molson was proud to play our part again this year through our sponsorship of the Molson Award for Excellence in Artistic Direction. Congratulations to Shelley Switzer from the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival for her well deserved win. Hats off to Bob Baker of the Citadel Theatre and Greg Dowler-Coltman from the Victoria School of Performing Arts for their nominations and for the great contributions they make to the Edmonton arts community.

Watch Ferg Devins of Molson present the Molson Award for Excellence in Artistic Direction

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Nothing like a good conga line!!

The evening was a great showcase of local talent with performances by the Be Arthurs, Ann Vriend, The Raving Poets, Jeremy Spurgeon, John Cameron, Bamba!, KO Dance Project, and Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow.

I really enjoyed the diversity of each performance and the amazing talent exhibited by each performer. Edmonton is truly home to one of the deepest and most diverse arts communities in Canada, and it is well supported through the commitment to the arts of Mayor Stephen Mandel and council, and the great citizens and businesses in the city. It was an honour for Molson to be a part of this event.

I also had the opportunity to meet @mastermaq and @sharonyeo – we had a great conversation! Check out @mastermaq’s write-up of the evening:

Cheers!