Thank you Winnipeg! ... for voting us the Consumer Choice Award Winner for Business Excellence for the 7th consecutive year in the category of Mortgage Companies and Mortgage Brokers.

"On behalf of our entire team of Accredited Mortgage Professionals, we sincerely thank Winnipeg for your trust and confidence", says Marty Coubrough, broker/owner of VERICO One Link Mortgage & Financial, along with his wife Nadine Coubrough. "We are particularly proud of receiving this recognition for the 7th consecutive year. I believe it's our commitment to professionalism and ethics, combined with the tremendous experience our Mortgage Professionals have, that deserves the credit on where we are at today".

"We set ourselves out to raise the bar in professionalism in our industry, and this award confirms that we are on the right path."

The company mantra, according to the Coubroughs, is based on "accreditation, accreditation, accreditation." "We require all our Mortgage Professionals to obtain and maintain their AMP designation (Accredited Mortgage Professional), added Coubrough. The AMP designation is Canada's only national designation for Mortgage Professionals and sets a single proficiency standard.

"We were also excited to see our industry recently regulated, which has raised the bar even further", says Coubrough.

About the Consumers Choice Award:

Recognizing and promoting business excellence since 1987, the Consumer Choice Award is the only organization to determine the best service providers by conducting an independent market research that is statistically accurate and not based on a panel of judges.

Each year, the Consumer Choice organization contracts with an independent third party, Leger Marketing, to poll consumers all across North America to gather their opinions, perceptions and expectations regarding the services they purchase. Leger Marketing is the leading Canadian-owned market research firm and a member of the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) of Market Researchers. The research methodology determines all service providers within a community and ultimately selects the top ranked companies only, in order to establish the winner within each industry.

The Consumer Choice Award is considered the most distinguished award of business excellence in Canada since 1987. Winners are selected by results of an accurate and well-proven independent survey conducted by Leger Marketing, the largest Canadian independent research firm and a member of the Worldwide Independent Network of Market Researchers. Leger surveys are audited by Deloitte Touch. Each year, the organization surveys thousands of consumers and business customers all across North America to gather their opinions, perceptions and expectations regarding the services they purchase.