BBB Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics

The Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics is to honor outstanding businesses whose commitment to ethical business practices helps to uphold a fair marketplace.

The mission of the Better Business Bureau system is to promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between businesses and the public through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.

In this spirit, the Better Business Bureaus conducts an annual awards program to gain public recognition for businesses that maintain a solid commitment to conducting their business practices in an ethical fashion. Each year, companies of different sizes are selected through a regional competition to receive the Better Business Bureaus? Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics. The Torch Award is designed to promote not only the importance of ethical business practices, but the willingness and efforts made by outstanding businesses to ensure that our marketplace remains fair and honorable.

Charco Construction has been honored for the last three years, as the Winner of the 2005 Torch Award and finalists in 2003 and 2004.

Honorable Certificates of Recognition/Appreciation

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Each year Qualified Remodeler Magazine sponsors it's "Top 500" which ranks contractors as to total volume of work. Last year Charco was ranked 81st nationally. Similarly Remodel Magazine has it's "Top 100", and Charco was rated 68th.

A policy Charco has incorporated is our "Library Fund". With each new contract that is written, we are donating one hundred dollars, ($100.00) to a local elementary school of the customer's choice. The money is to be used to buy new books for the school's library. We feel after 44 years of customer support from all over San Diego County, this would be a good way to give back to the overall community while at the same time involving our clients in the donation distribution. The idea has been very well received.

Click on the links below to view letters from Schools.

San Marcos Unified School District
Poway Unified School District

Charco Construction Company has been voted best home remodeler in the San Diego Union-Tribune readers poll for an unprecedented 11 consecutive years. As Charco begins its 45th year in business, the staff continues to provide clients with uncompromising professional service and the highest quality workmanship and products in the industry. As a result clients keep coming to them for their remodeling needs and repeatedly refer Charco to their friends and family. In addition to founder Chuck Swimmer and vice president and chief operations officer Armando Flores, the staff includes a licensed architect, an interior design consultant, a project consultant and three superintendents to manage projects. "I believe the San Diego public has continued to vote Charco as 'best' because, although there are a number of respectable remodeling firms in San Diego, it is our combination of honesty and integrity that shines through the rest," said Swimmer.