Rockwood Best Managed Winner 2023
For the fourth year in a row, Rockwood Custom Homes has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies 2023, sponsored by Deloitte Private, CIBC, The Globe and Mail, Salesforce and TMX Group. A top honour in the Canadian business community, the 2023 Best Managed award winners are some of the very best Canadian […]
Builders Still Bullish on Calgary
NEW HOUSING MARKET CONTINUES UPWARD SWING DESPITE MOUNTING CHALLENGES BY JAMIE ZACHARY Allison Grafton has seen many of Calgary’s most popular communities transform right in front of her eyes. In fact, she’s had a hand in many of those changes. The founder and president of luxury custom home builder Rockwood Custom Homes has been “disrupting” […]
Rockwood Best Managed Winner – 2022
Rockwood Custom Homes is proud to announce its third official recognition as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies 2022 by Deloitte and CIBC. The 2022 Best Managed program award winners are among the best-in-class Canadian owned and managed companies with revenues over $50 million demonstrating leadership in the areas of strategy, capabilities and innovation, culture […]
Matt Llewellyn, Rockwood CFO wins 2022 Report on Business Best Executive Award
Annual awards program from The Globe and Mail celebrates excellence among non-CEO leaders Calgary, Alberta Rockwood is pleased to announce that our CFO, Matt Llewellyn, has been awarded a 2022 Report on Business Best Executive Award. The Report on Business Best Executive Awards is an annual program to celebrate excellence among non-CEO leaders at the […]
Another big win for Rockwood and Allison Grafton
Winners of two Stevie Awards for Women in Business
Calgary, Alberta – September 23, 2021 – Rockwood Custom Homes and its president and founder, Allison Grafton, are celebrating a double win today. Allison Grafton was awarded a Gold Stevie® Award in the Female Entrepreneur of the Year in Canada category and Rockwood Custom Homes has been named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the Women-Run Workplace of the Year category in the 18th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
Rockwood Best Managed Winner – 2021
For the second year in a row, Rockwood Custom Homes is proud to announce its official recognition as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies 2021 by Deloitte. This prestigious honour goes to a small selection of Canadian companies that best demonstrate leadership in the areas of strategy, capabilities and innovation, culture and commitment, and financials to achieve sustainable growth. This year, additional criteria for COVID-19 response and management were also considered.
Rockwood and Allison Grafton take home two Stevie awards for Women in Business
International Recognition for Local Builder
Calgary, Alberta – October 2, 2020 – Two wins for Rockwood and its powerhouse female leadership! Rockwood Custom Homes has been named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Women-Run Workplace of the Year category; and Allison Grafton, president and founder of Rockwood, takes home a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Female Entrepreneur of the Year in Canada category in the 17th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run, worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards and are a prestigious international distinction.
Rockwood takes home prestigious BILD Alberta Award
On September 10th, 2020, the Building Industry Land Development Alberta Association (BILD Alberta) announced the winners of their annual BILD Alberta Awards. Over 100 judges participated in selecting this year’s winners, which were celebrated during a special online ceremony. A total of 29 awards were handed out to honour Alberta’s top home builders, professional renovators and community developers.
Rockwood Custom Homes took home a BILD Alberta Award in the Category: Multi-family Unit Over $500,000. The award was received for our Residences of King Edward project – Unit 301.
Maclean’s Best Managed
Maclean’s Magazine features Best Managed Winners in Special Report
This March, Rockwood Custom Homes was honoured with a Canada’s Best Managed Companies distinction by Deloitte. This prestigious award is not given out lightly, and Rockwood stands together with some of the best privately-held companies in Canada.
In its April 1st issue (currently on the stands), Maclean’s magazine selected a handful of Best Managed 2020 inners to share their success stories. Rockwood’s Allison Grafton was interviewed and shared her own trajectory from investment banker to luxury construction maven. Want to find out how did she do it? How Rockwood stands out from the pack? And why a team that plays together stays together?
Find out by reading the Best Managed feature in Maclean’s Special Report.
Rockwood Best Managed Winner – 2020
We made it! The Rockwood Custom Homes team is very excited to announce that we have been officially recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies 2020 by Deloitte. As a winner, we were successful in demonstrating investment in talent and technology, innovation in a competitive environment, and an increased focus on global competition.
Now in its 27th year, Canada’s Best Managed Companies remains one of the country’s leading business awards programs, recognizing Canadian-owned and managed companies for innovative, world-class business practices. The highly competitive program honours excellence in privately held, Canadian-owned and managed companies with revenues over $25 million. Each year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies undergo a rigorous application process, but only the best are awarded with this prestigious designation (and only after a thorough review of the caliber of their management abilities and practices). Applicants are evaluated by an independent judging panel comprised of representatives from program sponsors in addition to special guest judges.
