The 19th annual Moose Jaw Business Excellence (MJBEX) Awards headed to social media this year to spotlight and celebrate deserving local businesses within the community, putting a virtual spin on one of the city’s biggest awards shows.
Instead of the usual fanfare at the Heritage Inn, the Moose Jaw & District Chamber of Commerce hosted the awards on its Facebook page, featuring 59 nominees in 13 different awards categories between Jan. 18 and Feb. 3.
Nominees featured in this year’s MJBEX Awards were selected because they represent the best that local business has to offer in the community.
Each award was given one day during the two-week-long celebration where the Chamber featured the category’s nominees and invited Moose Jaw to interact with the post, before announcing the winner with a video presentation.
The awards concluded with the presentation of the People’s Choice Award, which was chosen by the number of social media interactions nominees received on the Chamber’s MJBEX feature posts.
The Strong Studio won People’s Choice this year, after its nomination post for the Marketing Award received the most amount of likes, comments and shares within a 24-hour period.
The Business of the Year and the Business Leader of the Year Awards were not included in this year’s presentation, said Chamber CEO Rob Clark, as there were complications with adapting the voting process. Instead, the Chamber is hoping to host an in-person event later in the fall to potentially honour those two awards, if possible.
After its conclusion, the Chamber shared that the MJBEX Awards reached nearly 50,000 people on Facebook — a much larger audience than the few hundred the live awards presentation usually hosts.
The winners of this year’s categories are:
- Customer Service: Tax Team
- Young Entrepreneur: Brilliant Cleaners
- Impact: Joe’s Place Youth Centre
- Community Involvement: Young’s Equipment
- Pillar of the Community: St. Andrew’s Church Moose Jaw
- Business Innovation: The Crushed Can Sports Bar & Nightclub
- Job Creation: Nelson Construction
- Marketing: Tourism Moose Jaw
- New Business Venture: Prestige Patching Inc.
- Newcomer Entrepreneur: The Chopped Leaf
- MJ & District Farm of the Year: Morhart Farms
- #trending: Moose Jaw Co-op
Congratulations to all nominees and winners of this year’s MJBEX Awards.
Stay tuned to Moose Jaw Today/Moose Jaw Express for more coverage of some of this year’s winners.
