MANITOBA BUSINESS AWARDS
Doug Harvey, CEO, DLH Group, recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Community by an Individual.
36TH MANITOBA BUSINESS AWARDS HONOUR EXCELLENCE, INNOVATION AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT CELEBRATING LEADERS AND LEGACIES
luckier we get,” says Fehr. “I also know that the more you give away, the more you get in return. I am very lucky to be able to give back as a result of our success, and to have found something I love doing every day.” And he was clearly not the only finalist energized by entrepreneurship. “I am so proud of my team and what we accomplished this year,” says Prairie Fava founder and president Hailey Jefferies, a former Brandon Chamber of Commerce employee who was so inspired by the business owners with whom she connected every day that she pursued her own venture. Prairie Fava has been a labour of love for Glenboro-based Jefferies, who works alongside her husband, Cale, a farmer who grows fava beans for the company. Prairie Fava received hard-earned funding from famed investor and Dragons’ Den star Arlene Dickinson’s District Ventures for the company’s industry-leading foray into the virtually untapped world of fava bean processing. This year,
BY KAREN VIVEIROS O
ur province’s business leaders and icons took centre stage at the 36th Manitoba Business Awards gala on Oct. 25, as we celebrated their contributions and explored their chapters in the Manitoba story.
Ralph Fehr, President and Chief Executive Officer of Winkler- based Elias Woodwork & Manufacturing, and recipient of our 2019 Outstanding Large Business Award, seemed to capture the finalists’ common experience and sentiment – all while winning the hearts and minds of gala guests with his humility and humour. Fehr, one of seven self and peer-nominated category award winners, received a lengthy standing ovation at the close of his acceptance speech from the crowd of 430 guests at the Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre. “People tell us we’re lucky, but the harder we work, the
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