Awards

Great Little Box Company (GLBC) is pleased to announce that it has been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for another consecutive year. Canada’s Top 100 Employers 2007 list, published by Mediacorp Canada Inc. and featured in Maclean’s Magazine, recognizes Canadian companies with exceptional and innovative human resources practices.

Great Little Box Company has continued to receive this honour year after year and we are proud of it.
In addition to this honour, GLBC was also named one of BC Top 25 Employers in 2010.

Great Little Box Company is honoured to announce that it has been named by the Financial Post (National Post, Saturday, October 22nd edition) as one of Canada’s Top 10 employers. The Financial Post list recognizes exceptional employers that are growing quickly and offer excellent career prospects. Robert Meggy, President and CEO of Great Little Box Company commented, “This really means a lot to me; it is a real high point in my business career.”

Great Little Box Company has Requalified for Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies program, thereby retaining its Best Managed status for the fifth consecutive years! This prestigious award is sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC Commercial Banking, National Post and Queen’s School of Business. The Best Managed designation caps off a tremendous year as we were honoured with many great awards including recently being named "The Best Company to Work For in BC".

Being a Best Managed company is a distinction GLBC strives to maintain on a daily basis. The stringent financial and operational requirements of this award are a definite challenge – especially as the competitive landscape of the box manufacturing industry continues to change. We are very proud of this accomplishment and attribute it to our staff that goes above and beyond the call of duty on a regular occasion.

This is the seventh time Great Little Box Company has earned this award including 2009-04, 1999 and 1995-97.

About Canada’s Best Managed Companies

Established in 1993, Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies (Best Managed) is one of the country’s leading business awards program, recognizing excellence in Canadian-owned and managed companies with revenues over $10 million. Every year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies compete for this designation in a rigorous and independent process that evaluates the calibre of their management abilities and practices. The awards are granted on three levels: 1) Best Managed winner (one of the 50 new winners selected each year), 2) Requalified member (repeat winners retain the Best Managed designation for two additional years, subject to annual operational and financial review), 3) Platinum Club member (winners that have maintained Best Managed status for a minimum of six consecutive years.) Program sponsors are Deloitte, CIBC Commercial Banking, National Post, and Queen’s School of Business.

Robert Meggy, President and CEO of Great Little Box Company, is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2006 Pacific finalist. As one of three finalists in the manufacturing category, Mr. Meggy was honored to be recognized for his accomplishments. 2006 was the third consecutive year the committee identified Mr. Meggy as a finalist.

In its 12th year, the Entrepreneur of the Year Award is an international program which celebrates entrepreneurial talent and achievements around the world.

October 2007

Great Little Box Company (GLBC) was able to capture three awards at the International Corrugated Packaging Design Competition. The event was created by the AICC (Association of Independent Corrugated Converters) to recognize independent corrugator and sheet plant manufacturers who meet and exceed their customers expectations.

There were 175 design entries, 35 companies and 19 categories and GLBC placed 3rd in three of those categories:
Point-of-Purchase Displays, Innovative Structural Design, and Live Design (not shown).

        
Nascar Display                                                                           Teleflex

An honorable mention was also received in the catagory of Best Use of Corrugated Replacing Other Substrate.

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November 2010
Great Little Box Company (GLBC) is excited to announced that we have captured another 3rd place win at International Corrugated Packaging Design Competition. The CorrPak 2010 competition is sponsored by TAPPI’s Corrugated Packaging Division and held every other year. The competition identifies and recognizes the finest commercially produced corrugated package products in the industry. The CorrPak 2010 comeptietion is open to ALL corrugated manufacturers worldwide.

The GLBC Design team submitted 1 design to the competition in the Structure – Floor Displays – Product. Placing 3rd for the our customer Picquic Tools for achieving their unique requirements in a compact and innovative format.

November 2014

• 1st Place Structure/Floor Displays-No Product
• 2nd Place Printing – Flexo Printing on Combined Brown Board
• 1st Place Printing – Flexo Printing on Combined Brown Board

September 2006

Great Little Box Company earned 2^nd place in the Tappi Corrpak 2006 Corrugated Design competition. The recognized design was the Proheat protective packaging container for Teleflex Canada Limited Partnership. Great Little Box Company was approached by this customer to design packaging for their product that would protect the 50 lb product during international shipping. Through discussions with the client, it became apparent that traditional foam protective packaging was not an option as some countries would not allow foam inserts. Our design team went to work to create a unique and creative way to not only protect the product, but to also to accommodate the smaller version of the Proheat product. The resulting design not only has been extremely successful in protecting the valuable product, but it has also eliminated the need for two different sized boxes therefore reduced the client’s packaging costs considerably.

Great Little Box Company has been recognized two previous times earning 3^rd place for our Grotek floor display (2004) and Jones Soda Limited Edition Collector Pack (2003).

Grotek – 3^rd Place 2004              Jones Soda – 3^rd Place 2003

Great Little Box Company received the Award of Distinction from the Quality Council of BC in both 1997 and 1999, recognizing our overall efforts to improve products, services, and business operations that help make BC a more competitive business environment.

Great Little Box Company also received the Award of Distinction: Customer Focus from the Quality Council of BC in 1999, recognizing our commitment to, and focus on, our customers.

Placed 2nd in the 2015 Labels-Flexo (Process)

• General Excellence- for the Purdy’s Diamond eye box
• General Gold- Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Tourist box
• General Gold- Christophe Chocolatier/Patisserie
• Boxmaker’s Award – Temper Chocolate & Pastry
• Boxmaker's Award - Skinphoria

September 2019

Great Little Box Company’s (GLBC) talented team has won 4 awards at the AICC 2019 Independent Packaging Design Competition.

GLBC’s design for the Liquidity Winery four-bottle wine carrier not only won first place but the Judge’s Choice award in the category of Corrugated – Innovative Structural Design, Consumer and Industrial Focus. 

GLBC also won first place and the Judge’s Choice Award in the Folding Carton – Retail Food & Beverages & Alcohol Packaging category with their Harken Coffee Box design.
 

Liquidity Winery          
Harken Coffee                                                                

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August 2019

Great Little Box Company’s (GLBC) talented Innovation Solutions team and passionate product team was honoured to receive three awards at the 33rd Annual Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards.

GLBC won first place in the Corrugated – Flexo Category for the attractive and creative Tea Runners e-commerce envelope. In the Wine and Beer Labels Category GLBC also won first place for the eye-catching creative of Red Truck Lager.

In the Label Digital Category GLBC won third place for the embellished Honey Brew Kombucha from Iggy’s. 

Tea Runners           
Red Truck Lager
Iggy's                                                                   

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October 2020

Great Little Box Company/ Ideon Packaging’s (GLBC) recently took home three Excellence Awards at the Paperboard Packaging Council’s (PPC) 77th annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition. The packaging designs recognized in PPC’s competition represent some of the best folding cartons and rigid boxes manufactured over the past year.

• Excellence Award in Sustainability for: Big Marble – Marbelous Snack from Red Hat Co-operatives Ltd. The challenge was to provide a solution that was not only more environmentally friendly but allowed for easy production loading, product ventilation and remained an eye catching product for consumers.

 

• Excellence Award for: Harken Coffee Carton.  The challenge was to provide a departure from standard coffee bags and boxes while staying true to the customer’s sustainability stance and create a design that would reflect the restaurant’s Japanese inspired aesthetic.

  

• Excellence Award for: Pod Pack from Vancouver Island Brewing. The challenge was to create the Pod Pack’s fin to mimic the orca’s dorsal fin while creating a functional closure with shelf appeal that included black and white esthetics and a soft touch finish.

   

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September 2020

Great Little Box Company/ Ideon Packaging’s (GLBC) Structural Design Team and passionate production team was honoured to receive 2 awards in the 34th Annual Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards, the industry’s only competition recognizing the highest level of printing quality and technical achievement across the full range of packaging segments

In first place in the Corrugated (Post/Direct Print): Offset Category, GLBC won for the Victoria Distillers – Empress 1908 Gin and Fever-Tree Indian Tonic Water 2 pack kit

In the Wine, Beer, and Spirits Labels: Flexo (Process) category, GLBC took second place with Strathcona Beer Company –Big Sexy Funk India Pale Ale. These labels were designed using vibrant colours, creating a fun drinking experience for the craft beer lover.   

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Great Little Box Company Ltd./Ideon Packaging (GLBC) announced today that it has received an award at the FTA (Flexographic Technical Association) Excellence in Flexography Awards. These awards honour outstanding companies who have made exceptional quality and precise consistency their mission in the pursuit of printing excellence. Each of the hundreds of entries every year is individually evaluated by a panel of judges on its degree of difficulty and level of execution.

GLBC won bronze in the Combined Corrugated, Line Category where entries are printed directly on sheetfed combined board (all flutes, combinations, and liner weights) for Coupe Beverages – Duchess Lightly Sparkling Cosmopolitan Box. 

August 2021

Great Little Box Company/ Ideon Packaging (GLBC) were honoured to win 5 medals at the first-ever TAPPI/ AICC Box Manufacturing Olympics. The competition was open to members from around the globe and judges evaluated entries on design, quality, graphic excellence, technical difficulty, and innovative application, among others.

Wins included:

A gold medal in the Folding Carton Cosmetics division for Routine Natural Soap Box

A gold medal in Corrugated Structure and a bronze medal in Corrugated printing for the Counter, Shelf, Power Wing, PDQ Point of Purchase Display category for Strait & Narrow’s 6-pack dispenser display.

A gold medal in Corrugated Structure in Corrugated printing for the Counter, Shelf, Power Wing, PDQ Point of Purchase Display category for Performatrin Ultra Limited Display.

A bronze medal in the category of best use of corrugated replacing other substrates for BC Fresh’s Potato Basket & Tray.

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November 2021

Great Little Box Company/ Ideon Packaging’s (GLBC) took home two Excellence Awards at the Paperboard Packaging Council’s (PPC) 78th annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition. The packaging designs recognized in PPC’s competition represent some of the best folding cartons and rigid boxes manufactured over the past year.

Excellence Award in Achievement for: Tacofino Food Trucks Kids Take Out Box.

Excellence Award in Achievement for: Uno Gelato Pint Carrier

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December 2021
Great Little Box Company/ Ideon Packaging’s (GLBC) is proud to announce we have won 2nd place for Dakota Nutrition’s Apple Cider Vinegar Gummies Label in the category of Toner-Pressure Sensitive –Color Process-Prime. ​​​​​​​This Competition recognizes the highest in technical achievements across all technologies in the narrow-web printing and converting industry.