Surrey company wins national business excellence award<\/p>\n
Published 2:00 pm Friday, May 29, 2026<\/p>\n
Cloverdale has won big on the national scene.<\/p>\n
Atkinson Landscaping recently won a Canada-wide award for business excellence. The Cloverdale-based compnay got nationwide recognition at an award ceremony in Toronto earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Atkinson Landscaping won the Best Business Practices Award at the 2026 Canadian Nursery Landscape Association Awards of Business Excellence, a national program that celebrates leading companies in Canada\u2019s landscape and horticulture industry. The Best Business Practices Award recognizes businesses that demonstrate outstanding performance in areas such as leadership, employee retention, operational excellence, business growth, and customer service.<\/p>\n
Matt Atkinson, co-owner of Atkinson Landscaping, said winning the award meant a lot to the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s super cool to be able to win a national award for all the hard work we\u2019ve done over the years,\u201d Atkinson told the Cloverdale Reporter. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of our team and we\u2019re proud of the work they do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dave Endacott, co-owner of Atkinson Landscaping, said the whole award experience provided an opportunity to reflect on their last decade-plus in business.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo look at where we started in Cloverdale\u2014just a small company with Matt and I doing it\u2014then to be recognized on a national level, it\u2019s something we take a lot of pride in,\u201d Endacott noted. \u201cI hope our staff takes pride in it too because they are a part of it. It\u2019s very much a team effort here. So, it\u2019s nice to be recognized as a team for the work we put in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Atkinson echoed Endacott, noting the company is greater than just one person and that the award belongs to every employee.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got great staff and they work so hard to make us who we are,\u201d Atkinson added. \u201cSo, (this award) recognizes their hard work. They are the best and they are super committed to everything we have going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA), Atkinson Landscaping was recognized for its \u201cstrong management practices, commitment to employees, and ability to build lasting client relationships.\u201d The company prioritises communication, reliability and consistency\u2014which are the leading factors behind its success\u2014the \u201cqualities that clients and property managers value in an industry where dependability is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n
CNLA cited Atkinson Landscaping\u2019s team-first environment as a key reason they won. According to CNLA, the company \u201cis a close-knit team committed to delivering reliable, high-quality landscaping services across its maintenance and project divisions. Atkinson is a growing company that values hard work and rewards its staff, and excels at establishing and maintaining long-term client relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to info contained in an email to the Reporter, Atkinson Landscaping has had years of \u201csteady growth\u201d and a \u201cstrong people-first approach.\u201d Founded in Cloverdale in 2014, they have built a reputation over the past 12 years across the Lower Mainland for delivering \u201creliable, high-quality landscaping services.\u201d The company has a maintenance and a project division and they serve residential, commercial, and strata clients across the South Fraser region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey company wins national business excellence award Published 2:00 pm Friday, May 29, 2026 Cloverdale has won big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-702459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}