La Maison AubeLumière begins Poinsettia Campaign
La Maison Aube-lumière, launched the 27th Edition of it annual poinsettias campaign earlier this week. The campaign hopes to amass $100,000 from the sale of the plants.
From Nov. 22 to Dec. 23, 5,800 poinsettias nursed by the Serres St-elie will be on sale, hoping to raise the $100,000 required for the accommodation and care of 12 patients for approximately one month.
Poinsettias can be purchased online at www.aubelumiere.com and are also available at Serres St-elie, in front of the Bay at the Carrefour de l'estrie, and at Maison Aube-lumière itself.
After months of construction, the most recent expansion to the headquarters of Global Excel Management in Lennoxville officially opened its doors on Wednesday. Although offices are already up and running in the new spaces and have been for a little while, a brief ribbon cutting ceremony was held with company officials and local VIPS to celebrate the new chapter in the company’s history.
“We are proud to have our global headquarters in the heart of Lennoxville, in the same community and on the same site where we started our first business more than 30 years ago,” said Reg Allatt, CEO of Global Excel and son of company founder Steve Allatt, repeating his family’s commitment to keeping the headquarters of the international corporation in the place where the whole thing got started.
The expansion, build at the cost of $6 million, saw the construction of a second building at the Lennoxville site, joined to the existing facility by a new glassed-in atrium. The new development has allowed for a new main entrance, a new cafeteria, expanded gym facilities, and newly reorganized office and meeting space. The new building also leaves the company room to expand in the coming years.
“Our dedicated, knowledgeable
employees have always been our greatest asset, and we have long appreciated how much their expertise and experience contribute to our success,” remarked Nathalie Lafond, Chief Operations Officer. “As a family-owned company, Global Excel values the well-being and engagement of our employees very highly. The new space was designed to maximize our employees’ comfort and make them feel at home in their working environment.”
Allatt described the mission of Global Excel as being to transform and simplify access to healthcare worldwide through insurance claims management, and noted that the company has 350 employees in Lennoxvile with an additional 550 around the world. The company manages over 350,000 inpatient, outpatient and non-medical claims per year and processes in excess of $1.7B USD in healthcare claims annually.