Price is celebrating its 75th anniversary throughout 2024, and our commemoration of this milestone will dedicate special attention to the 13 tenets of the Price Way. Each post in this blog series explores one of these guiding principles, giving our blog readers a closer look at its meaning.
In this final installment of our series, we’ll be looking at what greater good means at Price.
| Leaving a legacy of a different kind – the Price team plants trees near Winnipeg, MB |
Principled businesses form the foundation of society. At Price, we do not operate for the benefit of a privileged few; we operate for the benefit of everyone. This extends from our customers, employees and suppliers to the very communities we live in.
Our greatest asset is our people. Our team, numbered in the thousands, is made up of service-focused, principled individuals who willingly put others’ needs ahead of their own. Together, we give back in a material way to those in need, supporting charitable endeavors that benefit healthcare, communities and education through both philanthropy and volunteering.
Even before Gerry Price documented the 13 tenets, the concept of the greater good was central to the company’s values. Gerry’s dad, Ernest Price, served on the parks board for the community in which our head office is still located today. Ernie worked to expand parks, plant trees and save playgrounds, preventing them from being consumed by commercial development.
| Price’s Georgia-based team at Sims Lake Park in Suwanee |
In honor of these beginnings, throughout the year we have partnered with local parks and tree-planting organizations to hold a series of tree-planting team-building events. In Georgia, we planted trees and picked up litter at Sims Lake Park, which is located near our Suwanee facility. And in Winnipeg, more than 200 employees picked up a spade and planted 1,400 seedlings.
It is our responsibility and privilege to reach beyond our organization to improve our communities near and far. We believe that business should be for the greater good – and that’s what we are. When the actions and intentions of all our team members align to make the world a better place, everyone wins.
| Watch the video to learn more about the greater good tenet! |
As we close out this blog feature, we’d like to leave you all with one last thought: although we’ve discussed the 13 tenets in a certain order, these principles come with no ranking. It is the synthesis of these tenets that has propelled our business to where it is today. The past 75 years has demonstrated that there is no innovation without team, no growth without risk, no foundation without resilience, and no greater good without service.
Thank you to our readers for following along with our exploration of the Price Way and for celebrating 75 years of business with us.