Our Business Partners
ESS is committed to being a good neighbor and maintaining outstanding relations with the people and local communities in which we do business.
ESS includes our Alaskan native corporations, villages and individuals in the ownership of the catering, housekeeping and facility support services
business. Our Joint Venture businesses not only provide services to our clients, but lead by example in establishing progressive native relations
Gana-A’Yoo, Limited was formed in 1978 after the shareholders of four Yukon River ANCSA village
corporations voted to merge. The villages include Galena, Koyukuk, Nulato and Kaltag.
The corporation is owned by more than 1100 shareholders of primarily Koyukon Athabascan descent.
With a mission ‘to strengthen the pride of our people’ the board of directors chose Anchorage, AK as the
location for their corporate office.
Gana-A’Yoo is the parent company of Khotol Services Corporation and Gana- A’Yoo Services Corporation.
Both companies have contracts through out the United States in custodial and food service and employees
over 400 people.
Gana-A'Yoo
6927 Old Seward Hwy
Suite 101
Anchorage, AK 99518
Phone: 907-569-9599 Fax: 907-569-9699
Tikigaq Corporation (Tikigaq) of Point Hope, Alaska, is an Alaska Native Village Corporation, which
was established in 1971 under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). The corporation has
approximately 1,000 Inupiaq shareholders. Most of these shareholders are in Point Hope and are also
shareholders of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC).
Tikigaq has proven arctic construction capabilities, rural and urban environmental expertise, logistics
services experience, and supports local hire throughout various projects. Their resources include staff
engineers, scientists, project managers, superintendents, office managers, purchasing agents, quality
control personnel and safety specialists.
Tikigaq has offices and yards in Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Point Hope,
Alaska. Tikigaq’s subsidiaries are 8(a) certified through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
and are registered Small Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) with the State of Alaska.
Tikigaq Corporation
910 Ippiq Street
Point Hope, AK 99766
Phone: 907-365-6284 Fax: 907-365-6250
Kake, population around 800, lies on the northwest corner of Kupreanof Island about 30 air miles from
Petersburg. Basically stretched along one three-mile road, Kake has modest homes, several trailer parks
and a smattering of down-home- looking businesses, including a small teen arcade-hangout, two small
groceries and a restaurant.
Kake Tribal Corporation’s prime focus is logging, with growing interests in fisheries, and plans to
diversify into commercial construction, contract road building and bioremediation of polluted real estate.
The corporation currently employs around 200 people. Kake Tribal is one of four local entities that
controls and directs the economy of the town, along with the City of Kake, the federally recognized local
tribe known as the Organized Village of Kake, and the Kake Non-profit Hatchery. But, as a for-profit
privately held corporation, Kake Tribal is fundamentally different from its partners and rightly
spearheads the entrepreneurial efforts of what has become a very entrepreneurial town.
Kake Tribal Corporation
Post Office Box 610
Kake, Alaska 99830
Phone: 800-524-2487
Kijik Corporation is an Alaska Village Corporation from Nondalton, Alaska and is located in the Lake
Illiamna region with a population of 203. Kijik Corporation was formerly known as Nondalton Native
Corporation and at the time of incorporation on October 5, 1979, the name became Kijik Corporation.
In 1996 Kijik Corporation and ESS Support Services formed a Join Venture Partnership. This partnership
is committed to providing training programs for skills improvement and opportunities for advancement
and permanent sustainable jobs for any catering, housekeeping and camp services project that may come
up in their area.
Kijik Corporation
4155 Tudor Centre # 104
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: 907-561-4487
Chiulista Services, Inc. (CSI) was incorporated in 1996 when the parent company, Calista Corporation,
needed to provide an international mining company with camp structures, equipment and personnel in
support of Donlin Creek, a gold exploration project in southwest Alaska. Since then CSI has steadily
grown by providing a variety of quality services to an even wider variety of quality clients.
Whether it is temporary personnel, purchasing and expediting, camp management and maintenance, or
food and housekeeping services for remote-site projects that you need, CSI has the experience and
wherewithal to provide these services efficiently and economically to a wide range of industries. The
petroleum, mining, construction and fishing industries all generate much of their business and revenues
from rural and remote sites. CSI is there to assist them greatly by providing the services they need, when
they need them, for remote sites.
Chiulista Services, Inc.
6613 Brayton Dr., Suite C
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: 907-278-2208 Fax: 907-677-7261
• Over 24 Joint Venture agreements ongoing with ESS
• ESS earned Gold Level Progressive Aboriginal Relations Program
• ESS is a Founding Sponsor of the Aboriginal Hall of Fame
• Serves over 50,000 meals daily in Alberta Tar Sands, to over 17,000 workers
• ESS JVs are respectful of our partner’s traditional territories
Clients being served by ESS Canada's Joint Venture Partnerships include:
• Albian Sands
• CNRL
• Cogema
• OPTI Nexen
• DeBeers
• Shell Suncor
• Encana
•
Compass PLC
•
Compass Canada
•
Compass USA
•
ESS Gulf of Mexico
A Member of
Compass Group