It’s been a high-profile couple of years for Akran Marketing (PPAI 228797, Standard Plus), an Ottawa, Ontario-based distributor with additional offices in Canada, New York and China. In 2024, Mikas Agarwal, chief digital officer, was named a PPAI Rising Star and that same year the company earned a spot on PPAI’s Greatest Companies To Work For.
Since the beginning of 2025, the company began making a deliberate shift in its core metrics. It stopped optimizing purely for profitability and started raising the bar to be the industry’s premier problem solvers. During that time, it also made a formal commitment to internal mentorship and continuous professional development by actively investing in the team’s growth and fostering a culture where knowledge-sharing is celebrated.
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