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Castle Vendor Appreciation Golf Tournament

Mississauga, ON – On Monday September 14th, 2015, The Club at North Halton played host to the 2015 Castle Building Centres Group Vendor Appreciation Golf Tournament. The tourney was held on a beautiful September day within the rolling greens of this perfectly groomed private golf course in the city of Georgetown, ON.

For the past six years, Castle has held this annual charity golf event benefiting the SickKids Foundation and continues to be a great success. This year’s event raised over $25,000.00 in charitable donations thanks to the generosity of Castle Valued Vendor Partners. SickKids is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children by providing the best in family-centred, compassionate care, to lead in scientific and clinical advancement, and to prepare the next generation of leaders in child health.

“Castle recognizes the importance of acknowledging the contribution of our supplier network to the success of Castle. Once again we wanted to show our sincere gratitude for their dedication to our membership and their commitment to Castle and for their generosity at this year’s event.” Ken Jenkins, President

A national selection of Castle supplier representatives from across Canada enjoyed a fun-filled day of golf with some exciting charity challenges along the way. Over 150 vendor participants attended the event and had the opportunity to donate to a worthy cause, win great prizes and enjoy yet another perfect day on this picturesque course, in the company of their peers. Castle vendor, Eric Dake makes the journey all the way from Denver Colorado for the event each year.

“This was my third year participating in Castle’s Vendor Appreciation Golf Tournament and I look forward to it every year. The event is always very well organized and is a great way to develop new relationships with customers and other vendors and the proceeds to a very worthy cause.” Eric Dake, Johns Manville, Senior Account Manager – Canada

James Jones; Vice President, National Marketing who played on the winning team and hosted the evening event commented “This kind of sincere camaraderie between national and regional suppliers can only exist though mutual respect and long term win-win partnerships, we appreciate their on-going dedication and support of Castle.”

Castle Building Centres Group would like to once again thank their Valued Vendor Partners for the generous donations at this year’s charity event. Castle is truly grateful for their continued support and commitment and for building strong relationships with Castle Members for over 50 years.

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Castle Building Centres Group Ltd. is a Canadian member-owned, Lumber, Building Materials and Hardware buying group committed to the success of the independent. Our commitment is to drive this success to over the 300 member locations in our group and is achieved through Transparency, Freedom and Profitability. Our business model focuses on accountability to our membership, member freedom of choice, and a commitment to their success, growth and profitability through strategic partnerships with key vendor partners and a winning hardware distribution solution.

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Jennifer Mercieca Director of Communications
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