YELLOWKNIFE (May 1, 2015) – Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) David Ramsay congratulates BBE Expediting Ltd. and Global Storm IT for being recognized with Frozen Globe Awards at the 2015 award gala held Thursday in Iqaluit. Annie Steen of BBE Expediting Ltd. in Yellowknife accepted the award for Best Aboriginal Business and Kirby Marshall of Global Storm IT took home the award for NWT Entrepreneur of the Year.

The Frozen Globes are presented annually by Up Here Magazine to businesses operating in the NWT, Nunavut and the Yukon.  The Government of the Northwest Territories Department of ITI is a major sponsor of the event.

“The North can be a challenging place to run a business, but each of you is proof that it is not only possible to run a business in the north; it is possible to create and operate  successful, highly-respected and award-winning businesses,” Minister Ramsay told nominees prior to presenting the NWT Entrepreneur of the Year award.

In total, 22 NWT businesses garnered 26 nominations for awards this year. Ten NWT businesses were finalists.

“The GNWT is working to create and support a climate in which NWT businesses can succeed,” Minister Ramsay says. “The prevailing theme of striving for business excellence fits with our commitment to provide quality programs and services that promote and support NWT residents and their businesses and contribute to a diversified economy and prosperous, self-reliant territory for all residents.”

In October 2014, the GNWT adopted the NWT Economic Opportunities Strategy focussed, in large part, on advancing supports for NWT businesses and developing a growing, stable and attractive entrepreneurial environment. The partnered development and implementation of this strategy reflects the 17th Assembly’s priority to strengthen and diversify the NWT economy.

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