The third time in a row, Dallata Consulting Group ltd. won the OBAA Innovation Award and the Ontario Global Trader Award -HSBC Bank Canada Award for Innovation – Exports, respectively. To learn more about the even : http://www.obaa.ca/hall-of-fame/2011-winners/

The annual Ontario Business Achievement Awards (OBAAs) were launched as a way for the Ontario Chamber of Commerce to publicly recognize success stories within the Ontario business community.

Previously known as the Outstanding Business Achievement Awards, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce partnered with the Ministry of International Trade's Ontario Global Traders Awards to create a singular awards program. The 2007 initiative combined two successful awards programs to create a bigger and brighter celebration of business and export excellence in Ontario. As a result, the Ontario Business Achievement Awards was established.

Each year, companies from all sectors and all sizes are celebrated and honored at the OBAAs. Our award winners are some of the most innovative and successful organizations in the province. Since 1983, over 130 Ontario Business Achievement Awards have been presented to companies that have exemplified excellence in Ontario.

The Ontario Business Achievement Awards recognizes recipients in the following categories:

· Business Excellence -RBC Royal Bank Award for Small Business (250 employees or less)

· Business Excellence -Desjardins Award for Large Business (250 employees and over)

· Innovation – Technology Award

The Organization of American States (OAS, or, as it is known in the three other official languages, OEA) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas.

The goal of the OAS member nations in creating the OAS was "to achieve an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence." The OAS has eight essential purposes:

· To strengthen the peace and security of the continent.

· To promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle of nonintervention.

· To prevent possible causes of difficulties and to ensure the pacific settlement of disputes that may arise among the member states.

· To provide for common action on the part of those states in the event of aggression.

· To seek the solution of political, judicial, and economic problems that may arise among them

· To promote, by cooperative action, their economic, social, and cultural development.

· To eradicate extreme poverty, which constitutes an obstacle to the full democratic development of the peoples of the hemisphere.

To achieve an effective limitation of conventional weapons that will make it possible to devote the largest amount of resources to the economic and social development of the member states

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