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Volvo Cars Victoria Breaks Ground

Douglas magazine — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:43:38 +0000

It’s been a long journey, with a few unexpected pit stops along the way, but Volvo Cars Victoria is at long last heading to a permanent location. On November 7, the GAIN Group of Companies broke ground for construction of its new, state-of-the-art Volvo facility at 2512 Government Street, next to the group’s Mercedes-Benz dealership. […]

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Automate Your Retail Success

Douglas magazine — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:50:16 +0000

Before you know it, the holidays will be upon us and the busy shopping season will be in full swing. If the last few years are any indication, consumers will be shopping for more gifts, ordering more groceries and booking more travel plans online. They are also communicating more and more through SMS/texts — in […]

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Efficiency Rules – The future of retail

Erin Skillen — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:55:50 +0000

While brick-and-mortar retail has struggled to compete with the convenience of 24-hour online shopping — with many companies shuttering as a result — there is still hope for the in-person shopping industry. The Future of Shopping: the Canada Market Report 2021, found that “half of Canadian consumers have missed the social aspect of shopping in-store […]

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Victoria’s Very Good Butchers fulfill growing global demand

Carla Sorrell — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:52:41 +0000

A premium product and a tight budget gave the Very Good Butchers a very good start. From the moment they launched at the Victoria Public Market in 2017, the company knew they needed to scale up. They had over 1,000 customers that day, and had to shut down for a week to restock. “We knew […]

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Calculated Consumption: new service brings insights to the Cannabis sector

Carla Sorrell — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:48:37 +0000

British Columbia is the wild west of cannabis production, but the sector hasn’t lived up to its great expectations. A partnership between the American provider of retail sales data and cannabis insights BDSA, and Vancouver based Buddi, provider of retailer technologies for the sector, aims to provide consumer data and market research to licensed producers […]

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Daisy Orser, The Root Cellar

Douglas magazine — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:16:49 +0000

Daisy Orser and her husband Adam are the co-founders and owners of The Root Cellar Village Grocer in Victoria, a market set apart by its experiential shopping atmosphere driven by a passion for sustainability and a locally focused purchasing philosophy. How is The Root Cellar coping right now? We are doing okay actually. I feel comfortable […]

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Keith Gage-Cole has Heart & Sole

Jeff Davies — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:28:56 +0000

Keith Gage-Cole is a man who describes himself variously as an old hippie, a storyteller, a history buff and someone with an eye for art and fashion. So how does a self-described “old hippie,” who never graduated from high school, someone who got his start selling posters and black lights, hash pipes and counter-culture newspapers, […]

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Can Tech Turn the tide on E-Com in Home Furnishings?

Douglas magazine — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:45:33 +0000

The Challenge The success of online furniture retailers like Wayfair has put a squeeze on the profit margins of many small furniture vendors and made it tough for bricks-and-mortar retailers to compete against selection and pricing. The Solution A new immersive solution from Picture This Today 3D, a Victoria-based tech firm, promises to level the […]

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Meet the Entrepreneur: Jill Van Gyn of Fatso Peanut Butter

Douglas magazine — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:38:28 +0000

UPDATE: Jill Van Gyn of FATSO peanut butter will face the investment dragons on the hit CBC show Dragons’ Den on the episode airing September 27. There are a lot of nut butters out there. Fatso is different. From buying and rebranding the business to optimizing the peanut butter recipe to reaching new buyers far from Victoria, Van […]

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Running an Innovative and Sustainable Clothing Company

Douglas magazine — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 10:58:25 +0000

Lifestyle Over Luxury (L/L), a Victoria-based goods and apparel company whose HQ is a solar-powered van called “Lucy,” has launched a limited-edition clothing collection made from 100-per-cent upcycled, pre-consumer waste. The collection is made with new materials from leftover fabrics to warehouse off-cuts from other brands that would have otherwise ended up in landfills. “The […]

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