Thoughts

For Immediate release April 28th 2008: For the second year in a row, Karo Group has been named one of the top ten workplaces in Canada. The annual Best Workplaces in Canada survey is presented by the Great Places to Work® Institute Canada and appeared in a special national report on Monday April 28th, 2008 in the Globe and Mail.

Instead of buying your sister-in-law a new sweater or a singing fish for her next birthday, ChristmasFuture invites you to give a project in the developing world instead that will help end extreme poverty.

Alberta’s Climate Change Central has been focusing their efforts on strategies to reduce greenhouse gases since 2000 and Karo has joined in to help out in this important work. We have partnered with Climate Change Central to help raise awareness of the not-for-profit’s long list of efforts.

Hockey fans everywhere - but especially in Edmonton - watched with great interest in February 2008 as billionaire Daryl Katz was finally able to fulfill his dream of buying his local team.

Father Time, a figure usually associated with ushering out the old year, is given a new job in this year’s First Calgary Savings RSP advertising campaign and his new job is aging people. TV, radio, print, online banner ads, in-branch posters, and direct mail all poke fun at the common signs of aging, like getting wrinkles or losing hair.

Karo was featured in a recent “Cool Spaces” segment on City TV. Karo Environments Director, Keith Moe, was the perfect choice to take City TV on an office tour—after all, he designed the office space when Karo moved into the building in 2005.

The people of Karo Group have come together to make a difference in the lives of children in developing countries. We have participated in the “One Laptop Per Child” (OLPC) initiative to provide school-age children with laptop computers.

This holiday season Karo decided to bring a little magic to children who will be in the hospital during the Christmas season.

This holiday season Karo once again experienced the thrill of giving—2,000+ cans of food to the Calgary Food Bank. Staff members in the Calgary office joined forces to build an 8-foot Christmas tree out of carefully stacked cans

The merit of running ads for needy causes has never been questioned. But when Calgary-based Homefront (a support agency for those affected by domestic violence), chose to run an outdoor campaign, they knew they were courting controversy.

In an interview on CBC, prior to the unveiling of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots, Karo’s Director of Customer Experience Strategy, Anson Lee, suggested that a good mascot ought to pass the “what exactly is that?” test and, in an uncomplicated way, reflect the kind of place the games are being held.