Retail & Manufacturing

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

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.

McLaren Vancouver joins the city’s tightly knit community of super-luxury car dealers

Canadians from Generation Y support small businesses because of convenience and personal service, but feel they would benefit from offering online services, according to new Rogers research commissioned by Harris-Decima.

Canada Post has announced the finalists for its 2013 E-Commerce Innovation Awards and Vancouver’s Coastal Contacts, which operates clearlycontacts.ca, is in the running for best large multi-channel retailer.

Canada’s auto parts industry is likely to post considerably lower profits in 2013, according to a Conference Board of Canada report released August 28.

Canada ranks amongst the top five countries for entrepreneurship, according to EY’s G20 Entrepreneurship Barometer released August 27.

After rising in May, retail sales in Canada slumped 0.6% in June to $40.1 billion, Statistics Canada reported August 22.

Canadian expansion hurt earnings at Minneapolis-based Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT), which reported second-quarter financial results August 21.

Canada’s economy could benefit if more work was done to integrate local food into the national food distribution network, according to a Conference Board of Canada report released today (August 20).