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10 to Watch: Is This Your Year To Shine?

Douglas knows it takes courage and creativity to start a new business. Reaching the critical three-year mark is challenging and requires taking every available opportunity to gain positive attention from peers. That’s why Douglas magazine created 10 to Watch: to support local business growth by honouring entrepreneurship and putting new enterprises in the limelight.

Business Meets Heritage

A day before renovations were to start at the Rogers’ Chocolates store on Government Street, Steve Parkhill woke up to read a startling headline in the Globe and Mail: “Rogers’ Chocolates threatens to destroy heritage site.” This was in January 2008 and Parkhill had been president of the company for exactly one year. “We’ve owned the building since it was built,” he says, “and have been stewards of this building and it felt very ironic that it was thought we’d be destroying something.”

 
 

Signs of Business

 

Every business needs one. Whether it’s over the main entrance, in the window, on the door, or a standalone structure, it helps customers find your front door and tells passersby about your presence.

Farming The Future

 

Rock music playing in his dusty and battered Ford half-ton, David Chambers drives up the foot of Mount Doug, passing Madrona Farm’s rows of budding, blossoming, and bounteous vegetables.

A Tale Of Three Main Streets

 

Main Street is the glory of Canada. If a community has no heart, it has no soul; and its heart should beat faster at the core. For here is the glory of the past, the symbol of stability, the structures that our fathers and their fathers erected, the visual reminder of another time that gives every small town a sense of continuity. — Pierre Berton, foreword to Reviving Main Street (1985)

Still Going Strong

 

If you wondered whatever happened to Victoria AM, we’re happy to say that after more than a thousand meetings and 26 years, the city’s pre-eminent tourism promotion group is still going.

Exit Strategies: Succession Planning For Business Owners

 

Small business owners not only have to plan their post-retirement, but they also need to create the road map to get there.

GreenLights

 

When it comes to environmentally friendly lighting products, just being green isn’t enough.

Recycling For Revenue

 

In the capital region, recycling diverts almost 20,000 tonnes of material a year — more than a third of the waste generated in the region — that would otherwise go to the CRD’s Hartland landfill in Saanich. In the land of recycling, “garbage” is definitely in the eye of the beholder.

Trying To Find Harmony In The HST

 

On Canada Day, B.C. joins the nation’s other HST provinces: Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. How will it impact Greater Victoria businesses?    

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