A Message to our Clients

On November 24, 2008, Stantec announced that they had signed an agreement to purchase Jacques Whitford. Quotes from the press release stated:

“Jacques Whitford is a leading provider of environmental management, remediation, and geotechnical engineering services and their addition will significantly strengthen our core capabilities in our Environment practice,” says Tony Franceschini, Stantec President & CEO. “Jacques Whitford provides several strategic advantages including: doubling our geographic presence in Atlantic Canada; expanding and enhancing our geotechnical engineering capabilities; creating a significant presence in Canada’s Arctic and Alberta for resource development environmental and geoscience assessments; expanding our capabilities to support the mining sector; and expanding our capabilities in air quality services. Most importantly, we have similar cultures and shared values including our focus on sustainable development.”

“We’re excited about the prospect of joining Stantec, one of the most dynamic and innovative companies in our industry,” says Bob Youden, Jacques Whitford CEO. “We feel Stantec is a very good fit for us and we see many opportunities for us to expand our services into the additional sectors that Stantec serves such as mining, water resources, commercial, and manufacturing. By joining Stantec we are able to achieve immediately all of our key growth objectives while keeping true to our core values of advancing sustainability and offering outstanding career opportunities to our employees within the larger organization.”

We would like to assure our clients that it is business as usual at Jacques Whitford. Our same people will be providing the same excellent value added service that we have provided in the past with more resources and services over a wider geographic area.

Jacques Whitford and Stantec are companies with similar cultures and values. We pride ourselves in the quality of our work and our strong relationships with our clients. With both firms coming together as one company, our existing teams will provide the better practices and benefits of both firms to the benefit of Jacques Whitford clients and employees.