For Immediate Release
Flyte Enterprises Rewarded for their Community Involvement by Yellow Pages Group’s Make It Real Program Winners officially recognized at reception held on June 10th
Abbotsford (British Columbia), June 10, 2008 — Yellow Pages Group (YPG) is proud to announce the winners of its Make It Real: Better Businesses for Better Communities program: Flyte Enterprises Ltd. was awarded the $5,000 Platinum prize.
Flyte Enterprises designs and implements green management solutions for clients who wish to holistically improve health, safety and environmental awareness in the workplace. The Company is committed to fighting the climate change crisis by developing advanced custodial cleaning practices and educating clients about high-risk cleaning chemicals that have a negative impact on human health and the environment.
“We are honoured to have been selected as one of the 2008 Make it Real award recipients and would like to thank Yellow Pages Group for recognizing the importance of corporate social responsibility,” said Dennis Shepit, President of Flyte Enterprises. “Our goal is to educate businesses on the importance of greening their workplace and minimizing their own environmental impact.”
“We are proud and delighted to acknowledge the remarkable contributions being made by small businesses across the country towards the betterment of their communities,” underlines Annie Marsolais, Director of Corporate Communications for Yellow Pages Group. “These companies genuinely deserve a tip of the hat, and we hope that they will serve as models for other businesses when it comes to lending a helping hand to worthy causes.”
Local charities also benefit from this unique program In accordance with the terms of the Make It Real program, which calls for winners to donate a portion of their prize to a beneficiary organization of their choice, Flyte Enterprises will be contributing $1,000 to the Canadian Cancer Society. Open to small businesses of 50 employees or less, YPG’s annual Make It Real program is designed to recognize and reward companies that have shown an exceptional degree of social responsibility. Their actions could take the form of volunteering, fundraising or financial contributions to a worthy cause, ecological initiatives, or other charitable endeavours. Marking its third edition this year, the 2008 Make It Real program recognized small businesses in 10 different cities across Canada: Kelowna and Abbotsford in British Columbia, Red Deer and Grand Prairie in Alberta, Brandon in Manitoba, London and Kingston in Ontario, Sherbrooke and Saguenay - Lac-St-Jean in Quebec, and Halifax in Nova Scotia. Participants in each city were judged by local panels made up of select community leaders. For more information about the 2008 Make it Real program, visit www.ypg.com/makeitreal.
Yellow Pages Group is Canada's largest telephone directories publisher. It publishes annually more than 340 Yellow Pages™ and residential directories. The Company owns and manages Canada's most visited online directories, YellowPages.ca™ and Canada411.ca, as well as CanadaPlus.ca™, a network of seven local city sites. Yellow Pages Group is indirectly held by Yellow Pages Income Fund (TSX: YLO.UN). Yellow Pages Group places great emphasis on corporate social responsibility in areas such as the environment, community involvement, charitable giving and corporate governance. In 2007, Yellow Pages Group was recognized by Macleans and Jantzi Research as one of Canada’s most responsible companies. For more information, visit www.ypg.com.
Contact: Cristelle Basmaji Yellow Pages Group (514) 934-6894 cristelle.basmaji@ypg.com or Julie CoghlanPorter Novelli Canada(604) 602-6401 julie.coghlan@porternovelli.com