Retail & Manufacturing

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

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

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

Entrepreneurs capitalize on a growing consumer trend

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

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.

Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) opened a new North Vancouver store last week and is poised to build new headquarters next year before furthering its expansion into Ontario.

Company points to business logic behind acquisition of Book Warehouse location