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Great Little Box Company Ltd.

“If it is important to the employees, it is important to the Great Little Box Company,” reports one survey respondent. Number of employees: 202 Head office: Richmond Quote: “When a long-term employee had terminal cancer, the company bought her a DVD player and DVDs, sent home baking, and paid for her to take taxis to come to the company for visits”

By Marlene MacIsaac /

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“If it is important to the employees, it is important to the Great Little Box Company,” reports one survey respondent.

Number of employees: 202
Head office: Richmond
Quote: “When a long-term employee had terminal cancer, the company bought her a DVD player and DVDs, sent home baking, and paid for her to take taxis to come to the company for visits”

If my company were a celebrity, it would be: CLINT EASTWOOD
“Tough but fair and respectful”

“If it is important to the employees, it is important to the Great Little Box Company,” reports one survey respondent. Based on the incentives offered by president Robert Meggy, what matters to employees at the packaging solutions company is wellness and being rewarded for a job well done. Meggy, in his 60s, obviously values fitness himself and sets a mean pace whenever he can convince staffers to join him for a run. There’s a volleyball court outside the Richmond headquarters, and on rainy days workers can break a sweat in the company gym. Staff also get two personal trainer sessions a year. Aside from profit-sharing and prime parking spots for carpoolers, Meggy’s appreciation for his workers is evident every Christmas when he personally buys gifts for all of their children. Even more remarkable: whenever the company meets its annual profit goal, the entire staff is taken to a sun destination. This year the bar was lowered in recognition of the global economic slowdown.

Marlene MacIsaac

Marlene MacIsaac