CARTIER Packaging named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies

PRESS RELEASE

Saint-Césaire (Québec), May 14, 2024 – CARTIER Packaging was recognized for its industry-leading performance, its global business practices, and its sustained growth by receiving the prestigious 2024 Canada’s Best Managed Companies award.

Celebrating over 30 years, Canada’s Best Managed Companies program awards excellence in private Canadian-owned companies with revenues of $50 million or greater. To attain the designation, companies are evaluated on their leadership in the areas of strategy, culture and commitment, capabilities, and innovation, governance and financial performance.

“We’re very proud to have been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. This success represents the culmination of many years of constant effort to set ourselves apart. It’s also gratifying to be able to share and celebrate such recognition with the entire team who give daily life to our vision of revolutionizing packaging for a sustainable world,” says David Cartier, President of CARTIER Packaging.

Canada’s Best Managed Companies is one of the country’s leading business awards program recognizing innovative and world-class business Every year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies compete for this designation in a rigorous and independent evaluation process.

Applicants are evaluated by an independent panel of judges with representation from program sponsors and special guests.

CARTIER Packaging, an undisputed leader in the field of logistics packaging in Canada, stands out for its innovative approach to the market. With a unique packaging optimization laboratory and the support of its 350 manufacturing partners, the company offers its customers customized solutions that enable them to make the best use of packaging materials and reduce their costs. Its commitment to eco-responsibility is reflected both in the launch of eco-designed products and in its approach to reducing not only its own carbon footprint, but that of its customers too.

The company is also distinguished by a culture of mutual support, promoting a strong team spirit and total transparency in the communication of results and progress at all levels. Its management team, now shareholders of the company, guides business strategies with a strong long-term vision. Made up of individuals from diverse backgrounds, this multi-generational, gender-balanced team brings the versatility and agility essential to meet the challenges ahead.

The 2024 cohort of Best Managed companies share common themes such as having a people centric culture, targeting effective ESG strategies, and accelerating operational digitization.

“Over the past year, companies such as CARTIER Packaging have continually adapted and successfully responded to challenges, seized new opportunities, and leveraged industry leading competencies to maximize their investments and drive sustainable growth,” said Lorrie King, Partner, Deloitte Private, Global Best Managed Leader and Co-Leader, Canada’s Best Managed Companies program. “By demonstrating an increased focus on environmental, social, and governance themes, these winners have set the standard of excellence for Canada’s business ecosystem.”

About Canada’s Best Managed Companies Program

Canada’s Best Managed Companies program continues to be the mark of excellence for privately-owned Canadian companies. Every year since the launch of the program in 1993, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies have competed for this designation in a rigorous and independent process that evaluates their management skills and practices. The awards are granted on four levels: 1) Canada’s Best Managed Companies new winner, one of the new winners selected each year; 2) Canada’s Best Managed Companies winner, award recipients that have re-applied and successfully retained their Best Managed designation for two additional years, subject to annual operational and financial review; 3) Gold Standard winner, after three consecutive years of maintaining their Best Managed status, these winners have demonstrated their commitment to the program and successfully retained their award for 4-6 consecutive years; 4) Platinum Club member, winners that have maintained their Best Managed status for seven years or more. Program sponsors are Deloitte Private, CIBC, The Globe and Mail, and TMX Group. For more information, visit www.bestmanagedcompanies.ca.

About CARTIER Packaging

www.emballagecartier.com

Founded in 1980, CARTIER Packaging provides packaging optimization services in four complementary fields of expertise: its ISTA-certified testing laboratory, its range of packaging equipment, its specialized technical service and its packaging product lines.

Through its four fields of expertise, CARTIER Packaging is a partner of choice to help its customers protect their products, control their costs and improve their productivity while reducing their environmental footprint.

In 2023, the company will continue to consolidate its expertise in optimized, eco-responsible packaging in Eastern Canada with the acquisition of Complete Packaging Systems; an Ontario-based company, also present in the United States, specialized in cargo securement and load containment for transport.

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For more information, please contact:

bestmanagedcompanies@deloitte.ca;

www.bestmanagedcompanies.ca

Contact information

Rhita Amane, Marketing & Customer Experience Director, Partner, CARTIER Packaging • (450) 469-1357, #276 • ramane@emballagecartier.com • www.emballagecartier.com