Newsletter of the Canadian Association of Recycling Industries
Volume 11, No.2, February 2006
Best Managed Company
Out of about 2,500 companies CARI member Barrie Metals Group of Companies has been named the 2005 winner of Canada’s Best Managed Companies award. Established in 1993, the Best Managed award is a national program, recognizing Canadian companies that have implemented world-class business practices and created value in innovative ways. It is sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC Commercial Banking, National Post, and Queen’s School of Business.
Barrie Metals, a 21 year old company, operates two industrial supply stores and steel distribution centers under the Automatic Steel branding and also provides a complete range of ferrous and non-ferrous recycling capabilities to a variety of suppliers. It has created and promotes a strategy that has allowed the company to be a one-stop facility for electric and electronic equipment processing.
