Business View Magazine - August 2023

80 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 8 members have been working with transportation partners to optimize routes and reduce delivery times, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of products to retailers and consumers. Arctic Beverages is one of the CBA’s members leading the way in providing healthier beverage options and improving the supply chain. Based in Flin Flon, Manitoba, with branches located throughout northern Canada, Arctic Beverages is a 100% Indigenous- owned and operated business serving remote communities in the North for over 85 years. Shipping to remote communities in the North is a significant logistical challenge due to the region’s vast size and harsh weather conditions. However, Arctic Beverages has developed innovative ways to ensure residents in remote areas can access various beverage options. The company uses air, winter roads, rail and sea transport to get products to its remote retail customers, with planes flying out of major urban centres and semi-remote communities where the road ends. A barge service also travels along the western side of Hudson Bay and large ocean cargo ships out of Montreal into Nunavut during the summer months. Arctic Beverages’ commitment to improving the supply chain in the North has not gone unnoticed. One of Arctic’s subsidiaries – Northland Beverages in Yukon – was awarded the 2020 PepsiCo Canada Bottler of the Year and was a Donald M. Kendall Award Finalist for its outstanding contributions to enhancing the beverage supply chain in northern Canada. Named for PepsiCo’s beloved former Chairman and CEO and dedicated to our independent bottling partners, no greater honour is bestowed within the Blue System. Being selected as a DMK BOY finalist distinguishes Arctic Beverages as the best of the best, driving the Pepsi Spirit with extraordinary zeal and expertise. By almost any measure – volume and share growth, per capita consumption, product quality, customer service and community involvement. Arctic Beverages has also been successful in reducing caloric consumption in the North. According to the Northwest Territories Bureau of