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Award Name: 2009 Supplier of the Year
Awarded by: BILD (Building Industry and Land Development Association)
 At this year's Annual General Meeting of BILD (The Building Industry and Land Development Association) Associate Awards were awarded to recognize companies who are highly rated within and by the building industry itself. We have listed below, in its entirety, the press release recently issued by BILD.
2009 is the second year that Olympia Tile & Stone has won the honour of Manufacturer/Supplier of the Year (first won in 2006). Olympia Tile is the only company to have won this award more than once.
OLYMPIA TILE & STONE a big winner at BILD Associate Awards
Toronto, December 11, 2009 - The Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) is delighted to announce Olympia Tile & Stone as the 2009 Manufacturer / Supplier of the Year. The Associate Awards are handed out at the Association's Annual General Meeting at the end of each year in order to recognize companies who are highly rated by their homebuilder clients for quality and service as partners in the building process.
No stranger to the industry, Olympia Tile & Stone has been around for over 50 years, currently employing over 900 staff members while occupying a total of over 3.5 million square feet of warehousing. "Olympia Tile has always been ahead of the Game in this industry. They have been a great help with their service and promptness at addressing our concerns", said a dedicated client.
"The common denominator with each of these companies is professionalism, teamwork and reliability", said BILD President and CEO Stephen Dupuis. "The homebuilding process involves so many different people and processes along the way that no builder can possibly succeed without excellent relationships with their suppliers, trades and Professionals."
A complete list of winners can be found at bildgta.ca.
With more than 1,300 members, BILD, formed through the merger of the Greater Toronto Home Builders' Association and Urban Development Institute/Ontario, is the voice of the land development, home building and professional renovation industry in the Greater Toronto Area. BILD is proudly affiliated with the Ontario and Canadian Home Builders' Associations.
2009 Unique Special Award - TTMAC
At their recent Gala Dinner May 30th, 2009, Olympia Tile was recently honoured by the Terrazzo Tile & Marble Association of Canada with their 2009 Unique Special Award for the products Olympia Tile supplied for the installation at the Wedgewood Retirement Resort, Brockville, Ontario. Olympia Tile’s products were exclusively used throughout this Project. This included porcelain tiles, natural stone tiles, ceramic tiles, adhesives, and grouts. Products were used in a variety of imaginative and decorative ways: in the design of the logo in the front and back lobbies, on the columns around the therapeutic pool, the base of a glass waterfall in the spa area, and the feature curved wall surrounding the fireplace.
Sales Professional of the Year Award
At the 24th annual IIDEX / NeoCon Exhibition, held in Toronto, Ontario on September 24th and 25th, 2008, the ARIDO Award (Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario) for "Sales Professional of the Year" was won by an Olympia Tile sales representative. In nominating for this award, Design firms considered all manufacturer and distributor representatives who call upon them. NeoCon is the nation's largest and most comprehensive exposition and conference for the design, construction and management of the built environment.
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Award Name: Greater Toronto Home Builders’ Association - Supplier of the Year
Awarded by: Greater Toronto Home Builder’s Association
[now known as BILD (Building Industry and Land Development) Association)]
December, 2006
| This award requires registered Home Builder members of the GHTBA to nominate a company which they feel excels in quality service and professionalism. This honour was awarded to Olympia for their exceptional programs and services targeted specifically for homebuilders. Olympia’s commitment to education, service and premium quality products, makes them not only a preferred source for Homebuilders, but more importantly, for the Homebuilders’ purchasers. |
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Award Name: 2006 Hardsurface Award - Project of the Year - University of Toronto, Terrence Donnelly centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (CCBRAssopiastrelle)
The Hardsurfaces Award for Project of the Year is presented annually by the Terrazzo Tile & Marble Association of Canada at its annual convention. Association Members nominate projects for consideration, and the winner is decided upon by a panel of distinguished Architects and Designers.
The mural portion of the CCBR project was not your ordinary job - it was a major challenge overall in its artistic design, technical installation requirements and timing constraints.
special materials, unique design and application together with well-co-ordinated efforts blended perfectly to result in a structure which some Toronto media have dubbed “one of the finest buildings to have appeared in Toronto in some time”. Flextile Ltd. (a division of Olympia Tile International Inc.) was honoured as the installation system supplier. Olympia Tile was honoured as the supplier of the glass mosaic for the mural. The glass was selected and installed to give a unique antique mural appearance. A particular challenge posed was for special mortars to be pigmented on-site by Flextile to provide specified colour finishes. Surface preparation for the mural project was intricate by nature as most of the glass mosaic tile was exposed both indoors and outdoors. A further challenge to this project was that the mural was not grouted and that the walls are curved, requiring the glass to be specially blended This project is a solid example of ingenuity involving mosaics and is a deserved winner of the 2006 Hardsurface Project of the Year award.
Architects and designers involved had very specific and stringent requirements for this project and the Olympia / Flextile) team went the extra mile to ensure a successful installation.
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Award Name: American Distributor Award 2003
Awarded by: Assopiastrelle (the Association of Italian Ceramic Tile and Refactory Manufacturers)
awarded to premier American distributors for their dedication to the promotion and use of Italian ceramic tiles in the North American marketplace and for the company’s exemplary and effective practices in promoting Italian tiles in North America and for increasing its usage. Criteria for consideration for this award the number of preferences expressed by Italian ceramic tile manufacturers; included trade practices, promotions and positive representation, best showroom and corporate image. Olympia Tile met each and every standard of excellence.
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