Retail & Manufacturing

Retailers “cautiously optimistic” about Liberal majority

Party failed to take a position on issues such as credit card interchange fees

Oct 20, 2015 10:57 AM Read more >

Local e-cigarette shops wreathed in haze of regulatory uncertainty

Sellers of nicotine-vapour devices, supplies caught in legal limbo

Oct 20, 2015 12:00 AM Read more >

Robson Street expansion a small part of rapid Aritzia growth

Additions this fall include stores in New York, Boston, Toronto, Calgary and Saskatoon

Oct 18, 2015 11:00 PM Read more >

Pattison to put Meinhardt grocery store at One Burrard Place

The 4,300-square-foot store would open in spring 2019

Oct 16, 2015 12:20 PM Read more >

Sophisticated shoplifting operations are on the rise, says B.C. retailer

Retailers in the Lower Mainland are seeing an increase in the kind of sophisticated fencing operation revealed...

Oct 15, 2015 3:17 PM Read more >

Online furniture seller Cymax raises $30m

Funding round for the Vancouver company led by PlentyOfFish founder Markus Frind

Oct 14, 2015 11:08 AM Read more >

Simons a major part of Park Royal expansion

Quebec-based fashion retailer has been eyeing expansion to Metro Vancouver for five years

Oct 9, 2015 12:26 PM Read more >

MEC plans to open flagship store near Olympic Village

New store at the corner of Quebec and East Second streets would replace MEC's 20-year-old store on West Broadway

Oct 7, 2015 11:11 AM Read more >

Robust retail sales in B.C. persist into July

B.C.'s retail sector posted another strong sales performance in July, despite slipping fromJune. Total dollar-volume sales estimated by Statistics Canada reached $5.89 billion during themonth, marking a drop of 0.

Oct 6, 2015 12:00 AM Read more >

Overwaitea to ramp up grocery store wine sales

BC VQA store closures, looming licence auction increase potential for sales at grocery outlets

Oct 2, 2015 12:33 PM Read more >