Mercure Sydney - The Schwartz Foundation

AHA NSW Awards for Excellence 2008
Mercure Sydney
Best Community Service
The Mercure Sydney is the flagship of Dr Schwartz’s hotels. His pub, the Macquarie
Hotel has entered and been a finalist for the past 5 years, and last year won the award.
He and his team have made it a priority to give back to the community
In fact “The Team” spreads further than that and incorporates all the Schwartz Family
Company Hotels. This creates an amazing array of organizations that they can support
and an even larger group of talented staff who ALL work TOGETHER to benefit a huge
variety of organizations. The Schwartz Family Company represents team work at its
best!
Fundraising and “giving” is a priority and Dr Schwartz is well known as one of the most
generous Philanthropists and Humanitarians in Australia.
He is a humble and most generous man who is grateful for his parents being given the
opportunity to achieve so much in Australia. He has inspired his team to make it their
duty and responsibility to become involved in organisations that support the community.
The input into community life and service by Dr Schwartz and his Management team is
demonstrated here on both a personal level and business level. They have a personal
commitment to helping many charities, community and sporting organisations as will be
demonstrated in this award.
The management team have instilled upon the staff the same fierce desire to get
involved in their local community. There have been so many Schwartz Family Company
Group initiatives like the ‘Walking for MS’ campaign as well as individual hotel and AHA
projects to be proud of.
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