2011 Skills Highway Award

Cardinal Logistics deserving winner of 2011 Skills Highway Award

Auckland logistics and freight company Cardinal Logistics was the winner of the 2011 Skills Highway Award.

This year’s Skills Highway Award winner Cardinal Logistics picking up the award at the Equal Employment Opportunities Trust (EEO Trust) Awards dinner on Thursday 25 August.

Managing Director Tony Gorton and Human Resources and Organisational Development Manager Karen Stent accepted the award from the Hon. Hekia Parata, Minister of Women’s and Ethnic Affairs, at the Equal Employment Opportunities Trust (EEO Trust) Awards dinner on Thursday 25 August.

The Department of Labour's Skills Highway Award celebrates employers who successfully boosted employees' workplace literacy and numeracy skills.

Jeremy Corban, Labour Department Deputy Chief Executive for Policy and Research, says: “Cardinal Logistics is a very deserving winner. In 2 years, they improved the foundation skills of their people – and, with that, teamwork, accuracy and company productivity.

“Staff are more confident. They go on to complete industry training in bigger numbers. And they take time off work less frequently. We heard at the awards dinner that workplace literacy training had a big part to play in all of this,” he says.

Find out more about Cardinal Logistics from their case study.

Stevenson Group highly commended

Stevenson Group, an Auckland-based company, was highly commended. Stevenson provides products and services to the quarrying, mining, engineering, infrastructure and construction markets.

Stevenson Group won a highly commended award.

Find out more about Stevenson Group from their case study.

Other entrants

Entries were also received from:

Video of entrants

See a video featuring three of the entrants: Cardinal Logistics, Snap Fresh Foods and Stevenson Group.

2011 Skills Highway Award media stories

• 01 Sep - Manukau Courier - Numeracy and literacy drive a major plus
• 30 Aug - Workbase - Cardinal Logistics Skills Highway Award
• 26 Aug - The Learning Wave - Highly Commended - EEO Trust Skills Highway Award 2011
• 26 Aug - Bril-yuhnt NEWS - 2011 Skills Highway Award winner announced
• 26 Aug - Kiwi 24/7 - Skills Highway Award winner announced
• 26 Aug - Voxy.co.nz - Skills Highway Award winner announced
• 26 Aug - FTD - Supply Chain Management Solutions Magazine - Cardinal Logistics receives 2011 Skills Highway Award
• 26 Aug - Business.Scoop - 2011 Skills Highway Award Winner Announced
• 26 Aug - infonews.co.nz - 2011 Skills Highway Award Winner Announced
• 26 Aug - Business to business (BtoB) - 2011 Skills Highway Award Winner Announced
• 26 Aug - Voozz - 2011 Skills Highway Award Winner Announced
• 26 Aug - National Business Review - Hawke's Bay DHB takes out top EEO Trust award
• 25 Aug - Cardinal Logistics - Winner of the EEO Trust Work and Life Skills Highway Award 2011
• 25 Aug - EEO Trust - EEO Trust Work & Life Awards - 2011 winners
• 25 Aug - Department of Labour - 2011 Skills Highway Award announced
• 08 Jul - Spicers Paper NZ - Skills Highway Awards Finalist
• 14 Jun - infonews.co.nz - Skills Highway Award 2011: Entries show positive results from literacy training
• 13 Jun - Department of Labour - Skills Highway Award 2011: Entries show positive results from literacy training.