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LITTLE CANADA, Minn. – September 29, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

The Star Tribune recently announced that local home services company, Aquarius Home Services, has been named the gold winner of four individual Minnesota’s Best Awards.

Last year, the company was named a three-time gold winner and one of the top-three rated companies for Heat and Air. This year, for the first time ever, they took home the gold for Heat and Air and Best Electrician, in addition to Best Water Treatment and Best Plumber.

“These awards represent the great pride and effort our team takes in offering our customers a 5-star experience,” said Jeff Dougherty, owner of Aquarius. “We are honored that our state recognizes Aquarius Home Services as the best company for HVAC, Water Treatment, Plumbing, and Electrical Services.”

Setting the Gold Standard in Service 

The Star Tribune Readers’ Choice for Minnesota’s Best Awards recognizes the top Minnesota businesses from over 390 categories, including professional services, restaurants, and cultural institutions. Once a company is nominated, the Star Tribune will vet and approve its placement on the Minnesota’s Best ballot. From there, voters from the general public can vote for the business they think best represents each category.

“To be recognized as the best heating and cooling company in Minnesota is an amazing achievement for us,” said Brook Haas, president of the company. “We are ‘Earning the Right to be Recommended’ by offering the latest heating and cooling technology, hiring and training the best staff, and always providing a 5-star experience for every customer.”

The company sends out a special thank you to all its voters and looks forward to another year of outstanding service and support for Minnesota and Wisconsin customers.

About Aquarius Home Services

Since 1987, Aquarius Home Services has been a leading provider of home water filtration, water softening, heating, cooling, plumbing, and electrical services. These awards demonstrate that their core value, “Earning the Right to be Recommended,” has allowed them to deliver superior customer satisfaction.

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Erik Hinds

Aquarius Home Services

[email protected]

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Company Ranked Number Seven on this Year’s Best Workplaces™ in Canada for Organizations with 50-99 employees and was also included in this Year’s Best Workplaces™ in Technology in Canada.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – September 29, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

Pixieset Media Inc. (“Pixieset” or the “Company”), a leading software solutions provider for photographers and creative professionals, is pleased to announce it has been listed as one of this year’s Best Workplaces™ in Canada by the Great Place to Work® Institute. The Company was ranked number seven on this year’s list for organizations with 50-99 employees.

The 2022 Best Workplaces™ in Canada list is compiled by the Great Place to Work® Institute, a global research and consulting firm with a mission to build a better society by helping companies transform their workplaces. The Best Workplaces™ list is entirely employee-driven and evaluates companies of multiple sizes and industries across five trust-building dimensions: credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie. Pixieset earned its spot by working to ensure the comfort of its employees across all levels of the company, including perks & benefits such as remote-friendly work environment, extended health benefits plan, wellness, education and home office budgets, and a corporate donation matching program.

“We are deliberate about building and fostering an environment where people feel appreciated, happy, and are always growing. Because that’s where people can reach their full potential,” said Co-founder and CEO Simon Wong. “We are honored our ambitions have been recognized on Great Place to Work®’s Best Workplaces in Canada. This is only possible because of the efforts of our team, who is behind the magic that makes Pixieset a great place to work.”

“It’s been a challenging two years for everyone as we adjusted to remote work and learned to grow in the new normal, which makes this certification even more meaningful to us as a team. This is only the beginning, and we look forward to continuing to grow as an organization,” Pixieset Co-founder and COO Phoebe Jiang commented.

About Pixieset:

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Pixieset is an all-in-one SaaS platform that offers a range of solutions, including website, gallery, and business management tools to help photographers and other creatives manage their workflow. The company serves over 700,000+ users around the world and is a market leader in the industry. 

Pixieset is currently hiring for a range of roles across Canada—learn more about these job opportunities at pixieset.com/careers and stay in touch by following Pixieset on LinkedIn, and Instagram. For more information, visit pixieset.com.

About Great Place to Work®: 

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. It is a global research and consulting firm with a mission to build a better society by helping companies transform their workplaces. Great Place to Work® provides the benchmarks, framework, and expertise needed to create, sustain, and recognize outstanding workplace cultures. In Canada, Great Place to Work® produces both industry and demographic-specific Best Workplace™ lists. This is part of the world’s largest annual workplace study, which culminates in a series of national lists in over 50 countries, including the study’s flagship list of 100 Best Companies published annually in Fortune magazine. 

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Rianna Tan

HR Specialist

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Campaign aims to demonstrate how commercially caught Great Lakes whitefish can be more fully used, raising per fish value toward $3,500

DETROIT – September 29, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

The Conference of Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers, a Chicago-based organization representing the Governors of the Great Lakes States and the Canadian Premiers of Ontario and Québec, today launched its “100% Whitefish” initiative that includes a diverse group of partner organizations. Dan Eichinger, Director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, helped kick off the initiative in conjunction with a “head to tail” whitefish tasting organized by noted Detroit-area executive chef Doug Hewitt, in collaboration with Motor City Seafood Company. The event also featured remarks from Dr. Thor Sigfusson, Founder and Chairman of the Iceland Ocean Cluster. 

The organization’s goal with the campaign is to demonstrate how 100% of a whitefish can be used for different purposes and beyond just food. The effort builds on success with the cod in Iceland and with other species elsewhere globally. Organizers believe that a 100% fish strategy holds tremendous promise for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence region to more completely utilize caught fish, drive greater economic returns, create jobs and help develop rural economies. 

Director Dan Eichinger said, “The 100% whitefish initiative can help bring new products, jobs and revenue opportunities to our local communities. It also represents a more sustainable use of one of Michigan’s iconic natural resources—lake whitefish—while growing our blue economy in a way that can maximize the commercial return while respecting the management, health and recreational needs of the fishery.” 

Dr. Thor Sigfusson added, “Iceland has proven the 100% fish concept, and we are now creating similar successes around the world. Initial testing on lake whitefish has shown many different high-value products that could be made from materials that are today either thrown away or processed for very low value. Great Lakes whitefish can be our next success story.” 

Current uses for commercially caught whitefish only capture a small fraction of the full potential value of each fish. Overall, the Great Lakes commercial fishery is a tremendously undervalued and underutilized asset. Iceland pioneered the “100% fish” strategy that has rejuvenated and expanded its fish-dependent economy. The Iceland Ocean Cluster works across business sectors to maximize the beneficial use of the entire Icelandic cod (hence “100% fish”). As a result of this effort, the utilization rate of the Icelandic cod has increased from 40% when utilization was almost exclusively filets for human consumption (similar to whitefish today) to more than 90%, including high-value byproducts such as skin and collagen that are processed into a variety of food and non-food products, raising the value of each fish from about $12 to $3,500. Significant benefits could similarly flow from greater utilization and reduced waste of the whitefish catch. 

David Naftzger, Executive Director for the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, said, “There is tremendous potential for Great Lakes whitefish. Beyond this, 100% fish can help create more value and benefits from lake trout, walleye, yellow perch and other species in our region. This is just the tip of the iceberg and we look forward to the work to come.” 

The 100% whitefish project is being coordinated by a diverse project team including representatives from the following: 

• Conference of Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers 

• Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority 

• Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians 

• Great Lakes Fishery Commission 

• Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission 

• Iceland Ocean Cluster 

• Illinois Department of Natural Resources 

• Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians 

• Matis 

• Michigan Department of Natural Resources 

• Michigan Sea Grant 

• Motor City Seafood Company 

• Ontario Commercial Fisheries’ Association 

• Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources & Forestry 

• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 

More information on 100% whitefish is available at www.gsgp.org

PROJECT SUPPORT This project is supported through a grant by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust (GLFT). The GLFT is an innovative funding source created to compensate residents of Michigan for the lost use and enjoyment of fisheries resources of Lake Michigan resulting from the operation of the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant. Since 1996, the GLFT has granted more than $80 million to enhance, protect, and rehabilitate Great Lakes fishery resources. 

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Craig Clark

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A mailroom punching bag. Tuna cans with no can opener. A folded-up exercise machine. New marketing campaign seeks ‘the most useless office perk ever’ and draws in hilarious submissions.

NEW YORK – September 29, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

Workers are being lured back into offices this fall with promises of community, fun, and superb perks. But unless you’re working at Google, Netflix or Apple, these office perks are often far from glamorous.

Framery, the world’s leading manufacturer of soundproof private spaces for open offices, has launched a new global campaign to track down “the most useless office perk in the world.” The playful initiative — created in collaboration with creative agency Reaktor Creative — pokes fun at all the strange items that are left to accumulate dust in offices around the globe.

“We want to help companies see that if we’re going to make employees return to the office, then we should at the very least create an environment that’s actually conducive to doing work — and maybe even having fun,” says Chief Executive Officer Samu Hällfors at Framery. “There’s a real need to reinvent office culture.”

There are already many hilarious (downright baffling!) submissions on the campaign site. Entries at perksforpods.com remain open worldwide until Oct. 31. 

Three submissions will each win a premium Framery One soundproof pod, ideal for quiet working and private teleconferencing in open offices. The winning three pointless office perks will also be donated to charity for better use.

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Kalle Mattila

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