Wilbert in the News & Community

Business in Edmonton magazine: Leaders program celebrates the owners, presidents and CEOs of private and public small-to-mid size companies, who through innovation, business strategies, industry involvement, commitment to community and philanthropy clearly demonstrate highly successful performance.

Leonard Traub has been featured a couple of times ... Today Alberta Wilbert Sales holds the largest Canadian territory in the Wilbert franchise with three locations, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton.

Canadian Funeral News magazine: Leonard Traub honored with the distinguished Remco Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, by Alberta Funeral Service Association (AFSA ).

“When it comes to burial vaults, you can only do the best job you can for that family during a tough time and you only have one chance to do it right,” explains Traub. Positioned as one of the largest independent precast owned business in Western Canada, Traub is thankful for the support of all his employees and has enjoyed assisting funeral directors for more then 50 years.

Involvement in community: WEBA was created in 1982 in order to represent the interests of west-end businesses; over the last 35 years it has grown to embrace business people from all over Edmonton and its surrounding areas. Leonard Traub one of the founders of this organization and was the first president, as well , he was the first committee chair from WEBA to sit on Edmonton Economic Development board. WEBA's 35th Anniversary Gala invited Len to be a guest speaker and share his success story.

119 First Responder Families Served in 2018. Commemorating First Responders is a program honoring fallen heroes in our communities. They should be remembered , so that our gratitude never fades. Since the program began in 2012 , a total of 830 first responders have been served. With sincere thanks to our valued Wilbert network.

Sponsorship: " Getting Grace "- bringing Hollywood to Edmonton ....is a film about a teenage girl with terminal cancer who visits a funeral home to find out what will happen when she dies....AWS had an opportunity to help to bring this beautiful film and its message about living life to its fullest to the Canadian audience . Janet and Len Traub were at the red carpet premiere for the film with the film's star Madelyn Dundon and director Daniel Roebuck.

Funeral Business Advisor magazine: Burial vaults were the feature editorial in the November/December 2018 issue and Wilbert was well represented in three sections.