Tantramar Interactive Inc. was one of 14 New Brunswick companies honoured at the ACOA Partnership Outreach Summit 2006 — The Art of Success — held at the Delta Beausejour in Moncton last night.
photo: Steve MacGillivray
The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of ACOA, gave a presentation and David Ganong, President of Ganong Bros. Ltd., gave the keynote address.
Tantramar Interactive Inc. is a web company with a difference. Rather than the standard computer science background, its founding partners brought together skills in drawing, painting, photography, communications and, yes, computers, to build a different kind of web company. As graduates of Sackville’s Mount Allison University, they built a firm with a focus on clarity and usability, delivering web sites that are fast, easy to use and beautiful.
They generate business primarily through word-of-mouth, and have worked with clients as diverse as Queen’s University, Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada, Colorado-based Big R Manufacturing, and Business New Brunswick.
The businesses honoured at last night’s event were (in no particular order):
- Evolving Solutions — Chris Nadeau and Adrian Nadeau
- Bourgeois Farms — Robert Bourgeois
- Whitehill Technologies — Steve Palmer
- Dairytown — Derek Roberts
- Fatkat Animation — Gene Fowler
- Marwood — Ross Creelman
- Auberge Les Jardins Inn — Francine Landy and Valmond Martin
- Bulletproof Solutions — Steven Burns
- Timber Top Trusses — Steve Toner
- Sunny Corner Enterprises — Eugene Nowlan and Gordie Lavoie
- Bejewel — Trudy Gallagher
- Cooke Aquaculture — Glenn Cooke
- Groupe Savoie — Jean-Claude Savoie
- Tantramar Interactive Inc. — Choleena DiTullio and Christopher Mackay
The Art of Success was the brainchild of ACOA Senior Communications Officer Ann Kenney.