{"id":911279,"date":"2026-09-27T06:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T06:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911279\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T06:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T06:20:15","slug":"24-finalists-named-for-surrey-white-rock-business-excellence-awards-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911279\/","title":{"rendered":"24 finalists named for Surrey &#038; White Rock Business Excellence Awards this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              24 finalists named for Surrey &amp; White Rock Business Excellence Awards this fall<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 4:00 pm Friday, September 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Finalists for the 2026 Surrey &amp; White Rock Business Excellence Awards have been announced by Surrey &amp; White Rock Board of Trade.<\/p>\n<p>Winners in eight categories will celebrate Nov. 5 during a 28th annual gala at Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel. Event tickets are sold on <a href=\"https:\/\/swrbot.com\/events\/28th-annual-surrey-white-rock-business-excellence-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">swrbot.com <\/a>\u2014 $150 for SWRBOT members, $195 general admission. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s finalists represent the diversity, ambition and entrepreneurial spirit of our business community, and we look forward to celebrating their achievements,\u201d said Joslyn Young, board CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s awards gala was <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2025\/10\/30\/strike-moves-surrey-white-rock-business-excellence-awards-to-new-venue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">moved to SFU on University Drive<\/a> due to a labour dispute at the hotel in Guildford.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 award finalists are:<\/p>\n<p>Business Person of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Emily Kearns, Ankenman Associates Architects Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Gerard Bremault, Centre for Child Development<\/p>\n<p>Kumar Surender Sinwar, ThoughtsWin Systems<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Business Excellence 1-10 Employees<\/p>\n<p>Safe Sweat Fitness Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Slater &amp; Associates Counselling and Psychotherapy<\/p>\n<p>U-Lock Mini Storage<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Business Excellence 11-40 Employees<\/p>\n<p>My Empower Therapy<\/p>\n<p>Salas Collective Care<\/p>\n<p>SWR Drain Service Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Business Excellence 41+ Employees<\/p>\n<p>Boundary Bay Veterinary Specialty Hospital<\/p>\n<p>Heathrow Security Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Westland Insurance Group Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>White Rock Business Excellence<\/p>\n<p>Artigiano Caf\u00e9 and Bar<\/p>\n<p>Creo Arts Studio + Creo Kids<\/p>\n<p>Grounds &amp; Greens Cafe<\/p>\n<p>Not-for-Profit of the Year<\/p>\n<p>BabyGoRound Helping Families Society<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Society<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Fire Fighters\u2019 Charitable Society<\/p>\n<p>New Business of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Skystreet Real Estate Marketing<\/p>\n<p>Those Indian Guys<\/p>\n<p>ZIKR \u2013 Whispers of Indian Flavour<\/p>\n<p>Young Entrepreneur of the Year<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anmol Dosanjh, The Shelf \u2013 Sustainable Healthcare Group Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Swanson-Karpes, CSK Electric Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmin Dhanda, Prosport Health Centre Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The event includes a Corporate Social Responsibility Award recognizing a business demonstrating leadership in creating positive economic, social and environmental impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"24 finalists named for Surrey &amp; White Rock Business Excellence Awards this fall Published 4:00 pm Friday, September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-911279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911279","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=911279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}