Apollo Earns Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies Platinum Award - Claims 6th straight 50 Best award!
--MARCH 2008--
Apollo is very honored and proud to have been recognized as one of the 50 Best Managed Companies by Canada’s leading business awards program for 2007. It is our fifth consecutive win and we strive each year to surpass the goals that make us unique. The 50 Best Managed Company award recognizes the whole of our company based on strategy, capability, commitment, and financial results. We recognize that there are many ways to benefit with this award program. The application process rewards us with professional coaching and a detailed self analysis focused on strategic and operational issues. To have been selected as a winner is a privilege which we cherish.
We have grown each year with each win of the 50 Best Managed Company Award. We have been able to identify our strengths and weaknesses and we have celebrated with Team Apollo in honor of our success. We have been granted the use of The Best Managed designation which is the stamp of excellence that is recognized world wide. We have received local, regional and national recognition and media exposure. Invitations to events such as the Best Managed Symposium and Gala have allowed us to network and learn new cutting edge Business Management practices.
We would like to thank the 50 Best Managed Company is award program for giving us the opportunity to showcase our success and the vision that has allowed us to outperform competitors surpass targeted growth objectives.
--FEBRUARY 2007--
In 2006 Apollo Health and Beauty Care became a registered holder of an Establishment License issued by Health Canada.
Before attaining this license, the 15-year-old company, which mainly develops and manufactures private-label products for retailers, was allowed to manufacture only items classified as cosmetics within the health and beauty care industry. With the license, the company can now offer its clients a broader range of products that include pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter drugs, say Charles Wachsberg, chief executive.
"Our mandate is to be flexible to the changing expectations of our clients and their end users, the consumer public," says Mr. Wachsberg. "By becoming a very broad-based manufacturer, we are able to partner with our clients to become the single source for all their innovative and creative health and beauty care needs. We believe that the retail client is looking to consolidate its interests with credible, more capable, larger-scale manufacturing sources."
Founded by Mr. Wachsberg and his twin brother, Richard, a co-principal of the company, Apollo Health and Beauty Care features product lines such as personal washes, hair care, skin care, and baby care items, as well as liquid soap and sanitizers.
Eighty per cent of the company's customer base is in North America, says Mr. Wachsberg, with the remainder international.
"We manufacture private label products for retailers in areas as diverse as Mexico, Latin America, South America,the Pacific Rim, Africa and Asia," he says. B.C., Financial Post
--JANUARY 2006--
CIBC and Deloitte Touche and National Post and Queen's Business
School have, in 2006, conferred unto Apollo the honour of
one of the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada 2005 for the 3rd year running!
Apollo continues to capitalize on the development of chemically-complex premium private label products which offer true National Brand equivalence in quality and performance at a substantial value proposition for the Retailer. A laboratory team comprised of chemical engineers, quality control auditors and lab technicians maintain the competitive advantage in product formulation and design which defines Apollo’s product range.
--JANUARY 2005--
CIBC and Deloitte Touche and National Post and Queen's Business
School have, in 2005, conferred unto Apollo the honour of
one of the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada 2004
for the 2nd year running!
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our
dedicated Associates and Vendors and Customers who challenge
us to do better each year.
--JANUARY 2004--
Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies’
Secrets of Success…
Adaptability, Commitment and Passion
Toronto, ON -- January 12, 2004 - Winners of the 2003 Canada’s
50 Best Managed Companies award, display a number of common
business attributes which may provide insight into their
ability to achieve significant growth and success.
“Through our analysis of this year’s 50 Best
award winners, we found a number of common characteristics
of these exceptional companies who have successfully developed,
articulated and executed a strategy to achieve a high performance
advantage,” said Tony Grnak, Deloitte Partner and
National Leader, Canada’s 50 Best. “These winning
companies clearly exhibit a strong propensity and ability
to stay in close contact with their markets and to adapt
and align their strategy accordingly. As well they demonstrate
significant passion and commitment to ensuring they acquire
and retain the best possible employees.”
Key traits that the 2003 50 Best companies share, include:
a continued ability to remain alert and responsive to changes
in the market and consumer demands; a passion to create
the right leadership and vision; and a commitment to invest
in the hiring and retaining of the most talented employees,
are some of the key determinants which contributed towards
companies achieving recognition on this years 50 Best winners
list, while requalifing companies share a remarkable commitment
to stay at the leading edge of innovation and to continue
growth.
“The 2003 50 Best recipients represent some of Canada’s
most exceptional, talented and successful companies who
clearly make a significant contribution in driving our economy
and expanding our workforce. This year’s 50 Best winners
generated $7.2 billion in combined revenue and account for
more than 29,000 employees throughout Canada in 2003 (up
significantly from $6.2 billion and 21,000 respectively,
in 2002). The average revenue increase from 2001 to 2003
for the 50 Best companies is 26% which is attests to the
calibre of these companies and acts as a positive indicator
for our economy,” continued Tony Grnak, Deloitte Partner
and National Leader, Canada’s 50 Best. “We applaud
and congratulate all of this year’s 50 Best winners.”
Established in 1993, the annual program recognizes Canada’s
50 Best Managed companies who have demonstrated exceptional
ability and aptitude in all areas of management and best
business practices. To be recognized as one of the 50 Best,
companies must complete a comprehensive questionnaire, and
an extensive, in-depth interview process which is evaluated
by an independent judging panel to assess and examine its’
management practices. The panel evaluates how companies
address various business challenges such as new technologies,
globalization, brand, leadership, leveraging and developing
core competencies and designing the right organizations
and systems to facilitate growth and the new generation
of people entering the labour market.
" The 2003 50 Best winners are an outstanding group
of Canadian owned and managed companies who have proven
their remarkable ability and commitment to apply best practices
to all areas of their business operations,: said James McSherry,
Executive Vice President and Managing Director, CIBC Commercial
Banking, a national sponsor of the program. "These
companies clearly demonstrate innovation, leadership and
a focus on their customers and employees. Their example
illustrates that focusing on the fundamentals while pursuing
a clearly defined strategy is key to achieving exceptional
results."
Apollo recognizes the benefits of going green. We are a company with a conscience for a cleaner and healthier world and we strive to restore and maintain our fragile environment. We believe that if more companies embraced this increasingly popular movement we would reap the benefits of improved human health and living conditions for our world and the world of our children. We see it as very simple: Save the environment, save money!
We have eliminated the use of copiers, fax machines and mass printing by incorporating the use of an MFP. Paper waste is probably the biggest item contributing to landfill and waste costs. Copiers, printers and fax machines are the fastest growing area of energy consumption. We store our records in digital filing cabinets searchable from our desktop. Faxes are sent from desktop to desktop or from application to desktop promoting easy recovery. By these simple implementations, we have reduced the use of ink, toner and electricity. Customer service has also benefited as response to inquiries is immediate with a much higher rate of accuracy.
Apollo is constantly striving to embrace the trends of today’s business world but when it comes to going green, we believe that it will not be a trend but a better way of conducting business and an improved way of life.
We are excited to take steps towards going green and we feel pride in knowing we are reducing waste, saving energy, reducing cost and increasing company productivity.
--APRIL 2006--
Establishment
License
As of April 6th, 2006 Apollo
is now a
registered holder of an Establishment License
issued by Health Canada
Apollo Health and Beauty Care Corp. www.apollocorp.com Location Concord,Ont Size 200 employees Sector Manufacture of health
and beauty care products Market International
Charles and Richard Wachsberg know an opportunity
when they see one. In 1993, the private-label
industry was just starting to come into its own,
but health and beauty care companies had not tapped
into this market yet. Enter the twin brothers.
"We broke into this industry in its infancy
here in Canada and truly helped define the early
stages of its evolution, "says Charles Wachsberg,
president and chief executive of Apollo. Today,
Apollo manufactures and distributes personal care
products on the world stage for companies such
as Wal-Mart, Target and Loblaws. "We're in
the U.S,. Mexico, Central and South America, and
now the Middle, East. There is not a continent
where we have not distributed our wares,"
Mr. Wachsberg says. He recently returned from
Lebanon, where Apollo broke down political barriers
to open the Middle East for Western Business.
The Largest private-label health and beauty care
products manufacturer in Canada with some 1,000
products, Apollo has also significantly saturated
the U.S. marketplace and is now looking to the
Pan Pacific to increase its market share. "We
have been recognized as a leader for launching
creative on-trend products, quickly and efficiently,"
Mr. Wachsberg says. "We offer the most attractive
balance of uncompromised product quality and price
competitiveness."
