Retail & Manufacturing

Mount Pleasant proprietors pivot under pandemic pressure

Businesses adapt as COVID-19 shakes up retail and hospitality environment

Nov 16, 2020 11:00 PM Read more >

Revenue, losses up for B.C.’s biggest cannabis companies

Top companies in the burgeoning business sector still losing millions

Nov 12, 2020 11:00 PM Read more >

Burnaby business sees sales crash 90% amid COVID so it pivots to making millions of masks

What do you do when your business is crushed by COVID-19? Adapt or die. That’s what South Burnaby company Lonsdale Event Rentals did when it saw 90% of its business crater due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Nov 12, 2020 3:20 PM Read more >

New Gastown retailers boot up a recovery

Gastown has seen a score of new retailers open this year, despite the pandemic’s honing of the neighbourhood’s gritty edge

Nov 12, 2020 10:14 AM Read more >

The biggest Christmas store in Western Canada is now open in Metro Vancouver

In addition to a wide selection of merchandise, they have a number of intricate displays

Nov 8, 2020 11:00 PM Read more >

Seaspan takes a bow with delivery of foremost part of joint support ship

Shipyards working on multibillion-dollar project to build two vessels for Royal Canadian Navy

Oct 30, 2020 11:22 AM Read more >

2020 Halloween outlook: fireworks boom; costumes fizzle

Fireworks sales skyrocket as ban looms in Vancouver and pandemic hits costume retailers hard

Oct 23, 2020 12:15 PM Read more >

Candidates from all B.C. parties urge end to background checks for retail cannabis employees

Program put in place by NDP was aimed at keeping criminals out of burgeoning sector

Oct 21, 2020 1:47 PM Read more >

Recreation vehicle, boat sales revved up in July

Alcohol sales up 14.3% in July compared with 2019

Oct 13, 2020 4:10 PM Read more >

BC Supreme Court approves MEC's sale to Kingswood Capital

Members of the floundering co-operative retailer had attempted to block the company's sale

Oct 2, 2020 10:56 AM Read more >