Caramanico Year End Highlight Review

• We started a monthly perfect attendance bonus program. We awarded over $7,000 this season. #3 FIND A WAY
• We continued our referral bonus program – that program paid over $25,000 this season. #17 BE A BRAND AMBASSADOR
• We increased our total employee count to 125 employees in season.
• We estimate that C. Caramanico & Sons, Inc. affects approximately 480 lives. Those lives rely on C. Caramanico & Sons, Inc. for food and shelter; that responsibility is one that I do not take lightly. #5 “BRING IT” EVERY DAY
• We had 1000 instructional hours of tailgate talks sharing best practices. #1 THINK SAFE. WORK SAFE.
• We had 480 learning hours of CLEAR Training in the classroom to help grow skills and leadership. #12 WORK ON YOURSELF
• Our safety committee spent 96 hours collaborating on ways to make us safer and more efficient. #29 FIX THE PROBLEM- NOT THE BLAME
• We gathered our entire team together for over 1200 hours for 3 Rodeo Training Events. #19 FOLLOW THE OPERATING PROCEDURES
• We supplied 125 turkeys to families. #16 SHOW MEANINGFUL APPRECIATION
• We now have 11 husband and wife combos in our organization. #24 ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT WE’RE A FAMILY
• We are leveraging new technology – Property Intel to outsource aerial measuring so we can turn around maintenance proposals faster. #30 WORK SMART
• 8 team members studied and obtained a Pennsylvania Driver License. #12 WORK ON YOURSELF
• We added 8 new certified pesticide applicator licenses.
• We shared over 2200 photos & 582 videos of our awesome work on WhatsApp. #21 MAKE QUALITY PERSONAL
• We attended 4 industry conferences and tradeshows with the ideas of #22 STRIVE FOR BETTER and #25 EMBRACE CHANGE.
• We had many promotions from within showing growth within our team, these include: #9 THINK CARAMANICO FIRST
  • Loreen Andersen – Director of Account Management
  • Alex Bonnard – Director of Purchasing & Estimating
  • Pat Rowe – Assistant Crew Leader
  • Jeff Govannicci – Crew Leader
  • Alberto Fernandez – Crew Leader
  • David Galvan – Crew Leader  
  • Moises Najera – Assistant Crew Leader
  • Omar Najera – Crew Leader
• We started a Superstar of the Month award to highlight an employee who #15 LEADS BY EXAMPLE or is caught in the act of #28 DOING WHAT’S BEST FOR THE CUSTOMER.