Rockwood Best Managed Winner 2025!
Calgary, AB – May 7, 2025
Rockwood Custom Homes has done it again! For the sixth year in a row, we’ve been recognized for our industry-leading performance, world-class business practices and sustained growth by receiving the prestigious 2025 Canada’s Best Managed Companies award. This is our sixth year as a recipient of the Canada’s Best Managed award and our second as a Gold Standard winner.
Celebrating over 30 years, Canada’s Best Managed Companies program recognizes excellence in private Canadian-owned companies with revenues of $50 million or greater. To attain the designation, companies are evaluated on their leadership in the areas of strategy, culture and commitment, capabilities, innovation, governance and financial performance.
“This past year, we once again proved our Best Managed – Gold Standard medal with strong corporate performance, proactive decision making and adept responses to market conditions. We met inflationary pressures and fluctuating regulatory conditions head on, accurately predicting shifts in consumer behaviour and adjusting our operations accordingly. While doing so, we remained committed to our mission, vision, values, and strategy,” said Allison Grafton, president of Rockwood Custom Homes.
“On behalf of my tremendously talented team at Rockwood, we are all so very grateful to be once again honoured by Deloitte and the prestigious Canada’s Best Managed Companies award.”
Canada’s Best Managed Companies is one of the country’s leading business awards programs recognizing innovative and world‑class businesses. Every year, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies compete for this designation in a rigorous and independent evaluation process. Applicants are evaluated by an independent panel of judges with representation from program sponsors and special guests.
The 2025 cohort of Best Managed Companies shares common themes, including fostering a people-centric culture, implementing a strategic company framework, investing in innovation and technological advancement, maintaining financial resilience and strong corporate governance. Together, these practices strengthen the Canadian economy by promoting sustainable growth, enhancing competitiveness, and cultivating a thriving business ecosystem.
In Rockwood’s case, the judges applauded the company’s innovative, vertically integrated business model, apt geographic movement into markets with promising growth—namely Kelowna and Canmore, and Rockwood’s collaborative and entrepreneurial culture.
“Over the past year, companies like Rockwood Custom Homes have continually adapted and successfully responded to challenges, seized new opportunities, and leveraged industry leading competencies to maximize their investments and drive sustainable growth,” said Lorrie King, Partner, Deloitte Private, Global Best Managed Leader and Co-Leader, Canada’s Best Managed Companies program.
“These winners have set the standard of excellence for Canada’s business ecosystem by demonstrating a strong commitment to strategic transformation, talent and workforce development, and technological and business adaptability.”
About Canada’s Best Managed
Canada’s Best Managed Companies program continues to be the mark of excellence
for privately-owned Canadian companies. Every year since the launch of the program
in 1993, hundreds of entrepreneurial companies have competed for this designation in a rigorous and independent process that evaluates their management skills and practices.
The awards are granted on four levels:
1) Canada’s Best Managed Companies new winner, one of the new winners selected each year;
2) Canada’s Best Managed Companies winner, award recipients that have re-applied and successfully retained their Best Managed designation for two additional years, subject to annual operational and financial review;
3) Gold Standard winner, after three consecutive years of maintaining their Best Managed status, these winners have demonstrated their commitment to the program and successfully
retained their award for 4-6 consecutive years;
4) Platinum Club member, winners that have maintained their Best Managed status for seven years or more.
Program sponsors are Deloitte Private, CIBC, EDC, The Globe and Mail, and TMX Group. For more information, visit www.bestmanagedcompanies.ca.