CHATHAM, ON, June 14, 2012 /CNW/ - (TSX:L): Canadians
got busy voting in the President's Choice® BBQTown Contest
in the hopes to bring a massive one of a kind BBQ party to their
town! For their efforts Chatham is the lucky community that will host
the President's Choice® BBQTown Grand Prize Event on August
11!
Chatham will receive a BBQ
party in their town for up to 5,000 people with fantastic food,
hosted by Chef Tom Filippou,
Executive Chef for President's Choice® Cooking Schools and
Bob Blumer, host of Food Network
Canada's World's Weirdest Restaurants. There will be a
performance by multi-platinum, JUNO Award winning recording group
Hedley, and on behalf of
the community, $25,000 will be
donated to President's Choice® Children's Charity to support
a local nutrition program. To top it all off, Chatham residents will attempt to set a new
Guinness World Records® achievement for the most hamburgers
assembled in one hour!
Nine other communities will win a secondary prize which includes
a stop on the President's Choice® BBQTown Tour:
- Fredericton, NB
- Hampton, NB
- Orangeville, ON
- Mississauga, ON
- St. Thomas, ON
- Strathmore, AB
- Sturgeon Falls, ON
- Sudbury, ON
- Truro, NS
Log on to www.pcbbqtown.ca on June
21st to find out where and when the BBQ party will be
happening in each town!
These nine lucky communities will get a free BBQ party for up to
2,000 people in their town, complete with our best President's
Choice® BBQ grill items, a visit from the PC Ice Cream
Shop truck, and free family entertainment such as a balloon animal
artists and a fire juggler!
Have fun all summer long with President's Choice®
products and visit pc.ca for great recipes! Don't forget to 'Like'
us on Facebook and 'Follow' us on Twitter! Twitter hash tag -
#PCBBQTown.
About Loblaw Companies Limited TSX: L
Loblaw Companies Limited, a subsidiary of George Weston Limited,
is Canada's largest food retailer
and a leading provider of drugstore, general merchandise and
financial products and services. Loblaw is one of the largest
private sector employers in Canada. With more than 1,000 corporate and
franchised stores from coast to coast, Loblaw and its franchisees
employ more than 135 000 full-time and part-time employees. Through
its portfolio of store formats, Loblaw is committed to providing
Canadians with a wide, growing and successful range of products and
services to meet the everyday household demands of Canadian
consumers. Loblaw is known for the quality, innovation and value of
its food offering. It offers Canada's strongest control (private) label
program, including the unique President's Choice®, no name® and Joe
Fresh® brands. In addition, the Company makes available to
consumers President's Choice Financial® services and offers the PC®
points loyalty program.
About Hedley:
Hedley's recent highlights
include: near double platinum certification
for Storms (2011); awarded 'Pop
Album of the Year' at the 2012 JUNO Awards; double platinum
certifications for every previous studio album; over 1,500,000
digital singles sold; 15 career JUNO nominations and two wins,
twelve consecutive #1 videos at Much Music; multiple Top 10
singles; and listed as one of the top 100 touring artists in the
world of 2010 (Pollstar, October 18,
2010).
SOURCE Loblaw Companies Limited