Canada’s Best Managed Companies
Recognizing excellence in private Canadian-owned companies.

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Celebrating Canadian business excellence
Canada’s Best Managed Companies is Canada’s leading business awards program, recognizing excellence in private Canadian-owned companies. Each year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies undergo a rigorous application process, but only the best are awarded with this prestigious designation.
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Best Managed new winner

Best Managed winner (years 2, 3)

Gold Standard winner (years 4, 5, 6)

Platinum Club member (year 7 and following)
Best Managed winners
One of the new winners selected each year. Meet our new winners
Best Managed winners (years 2, 3)
Award recipients that have re-applied and successfully retained their Best Managed designation for two additional years.
Gold Standard winners
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.
Platinum Club member (year 7 and following)
Winners who have retained their Best Managed status for seven years or more
Platinum Club member (year 7 and following)
Winners who have retained their Best Managed status for seven years or more

Who can apply?
Companies wishing to apply must meet the following criteria:


Canada's Best Managed Companies winners
Launched 31 years ago, Canada's Best Managed Companies is the country’s leading business awards program, recognizing excellence in Canadian owned and managed companies.
View our 2023 winners listMeet our sponsors
CIBC
CIBC is a leading Canadian-based financial institution serving over 11 million clients in Canada and around the world. CIBC Commercial Banking offers a unique client experience to mid-size businesses, with flexible business solutions, dedicated business expertise, and timely business advice that helps clients succeed.
Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, voice, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customers in a whole new way. The Salesforce Customer 360 is an integrated CRM platform, powered by AI, that unites marketing, sales, commerce, IT and analytics departments. Salesforce is one of the leaders on Fortune’s Change the World list, and has been one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, for twelve years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.
TMX
Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) & TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), owned and operated by TMX Group, are home to Canadian and global companies, from micro-cap to mega cap, across a diversity of sectors. Over 3,000 companies are listed on the Exchanges, with a total market capitalization of almost $3.0 trillion. TSX is Canada's oldest and largest public equity market, with more than 160 years of experience. TSXV is the world’s leading public venture marketplace for early-stage companies. The market provides emerging companies with capital formation opportunities to fuel their growth, while providing investment opportunities for investors who participate in a company’s development. For more information, visit www.tmx.com.
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, leading the national discussion and causing policy change through brave and independent journalism since 1844. With award-winning coverage of business, politics and national affairs, The Globe and Mail newspaper reaches 6.4 million readers every week in print or digital formats, and Report on Business magazine reaches 2 million readers in print and digital every issue. The Globe and Mail’s investment in innovative data science means that as the world continues to change, so does The Globe. The Globe and Mail is owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family.


The Network
You don't just win an award, you become part of an exclusive network.
The Best Managed program is a community defined by passion, resourcefulness, and imagination.
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Meet our leaders

Derrick Dempster
Best Managed Co-lead & Audit Partner,
Deloitte

Lorrie King
Best Managed Co-lead, Partner and Ontario
Deloitte Private and
Mid Market Marketplace Leader