Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a joyful holiday season.
As we change our calendars to 2024, we at Odlum Brown are turning the page on a wonderful year of celebrating our 100th anniversary with our clients, team members and communities.
After all, when you turn 100, you don’t just celebrate once – you celebrate all year! For us, 2023 was a year about celebrations and stories.
We launched the festivities with clients at a special 100th Anniversary Edition of our Annual Address and continued on with celebratory client events across BC throughout the year. We invited you all to share your stories about the impact working with our firm has had on your lives, and we were blown away by what we received. These stories reminded us why we do what we do. Thank you for sharing them.
We also invited our clients and friends to nominate a new community partner for our firm, and we received many thoughtful submissions of organizations making a difference in our communities. We look forward to announcing the four recipients, each of whom will receive a special donation of $5,000, at next month’s Annual Address.
With our team members, we celebrated throughout the year with special treats, commemorative items and celebratory events, including one that brought all of our families together. We also made 10 special donations of $1,000 each to organizations nominated by our very own team members.
With one of our core values being Community, we also ensured giving back was a centerpiece of our 100th anniversary initiatives. In addition to the special donations I mentioned, we sought to make an even bigger difference in many other ways – including our Courtenay team planting 100 trees for 100 years in the Comox Valley!
It was a marvelous year. And while reaching this milestone was an accomplishment worth celebrating, we are not going to rest on our laurels. In fact, I’ve said all along that while we have much to be proud of in our rich history, it’s our future that really excites me! We’ve laid an incredible foundation on which to build, grow and enhance the service we provide to help our clients achieve their financial goals.
Thank you to all of our wonderful clients for your continued trust and support. We were able to reach this milestone because of you. Your success is both our most enduring legacy and the key to our future.
Speaking of legacy, we have one big announcement still to come – the cherry on top of our 100th anniversary year that we hope will make an impact for generations. Stay tuned for more details on this exciting development, and here’s to a healthy and prosperous 2024!