Retail & Manufacturing

Online eyewear seller Coastal Contacts’ foray into brick-and-mortar stores with its Clearly Contacts brand is clearly paying off, given sales numbers that the company released this morning (September 17).

More consumers in B.C. are following a gluten-free diet than anywhere else in the country.

Family can provide help but are not always the wisest choice

Online shopping, fittings at clients’ offices displacing storefronts

Expanding businesses are running to catch up to increasing demand

Burnaby’s Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (TSX:RBA) sold $64 million of equipment at an auction in Edmonton September 4-5, the company announced September 6.

Vancouver-based skin-care product company Skoah has opened a location in Bellevue, WA – the first of three planned Seattle-area locations.

Russell Breweries’ CEO Brian Harris, who purchased the company from its founding family the Russells in 2004, has retired.

Vancouver’s Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery (SPUD.ca) will launch a back-to-school program in which it will raise funds for local charity Breakfast for Learning, the online grocer announced September 3.

Burnaby-based Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (TSX:RBA) sold more than US$53 million of equipment at two-day public auction in Houston, Texas last week.