Retail & Manufacturing

Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT) will open 125 stores across Canada next year, including 19 in B.C. The U.S. based big box retail giant announced that starting in the spring of 2013 it will open in rebranded Zellers Inc .

Business confidence among Canada’s small- and medium-sized enterprises continued to fall in June, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).

Increasing number of entrepreneurs working in cannabis culture’s legal nether world

Street festivals may be fun, but do they drive business or drive traffic away from local merchants?

The alternative to the one-on-one is firefighting – when critical activities go awry and problems must be addressed immediately and with a significantly reduced set of options

Branding is less about getting people’s attention and more about inviting them to develop a relationship with you

Entrepreneurs capitalize on a growing consumer trend

Low operating costs and margins key to survival in the increasingly competitive sector

Fast growing franchiser Instant Imprints plans to double its four-store Metro Vancouver presence within the next 90 days, the company’s CEO Ralph Askar told Business in Vancouver June 22.

Entrepreneur Kent McKenzie plans to close his 13-year-old Does Your Mother Know? magazine store June 24 in what is another example of how online media consumption is killing longtime brick-and-mortar businesses.