Kristen Hilderman

The original partners of Vancouver Urban Winery—Mike Macquisten, Steve Thorp and Reuben Major—have launched Belgard Kitchen, a new restaurant in The Settlement Building, the Railtown locale that houses a collective of food and drink ventures. Executive chef Reuben Major says Belgard is the unifying piece that showcases everything the building...

When Yaletown’s Chinois restaurant closed, general manager Michael Gayman worked with owner Peter Girges and his business partner to develop a new concept that would succeed where the one-dimensional Asian eatery failed. The team converted the interior from a dark space into a bright, open and approachable one, with custom...

This past Saturday marked the first day of Surrey's Food Cart Fest at Holland Park. Click through the gallery to see the 10 approved vendors from Surrey's Food Truck Program that will make appearances at the festival. Image credit: Varinicey Pa Taj Express and Don's Smokies are both on the Surrey Food...

Christian Codrington, B.C. Human Resources Management Association senior manager, and Kelly Slade-Kerr, lawyer with Hamilton Howell Bain & Gould Employment Lawyers, both maintain that “sick leave” is the proper—and only—term that should be used to describe the type of leave that employees seek when they are not mentally fit to...

From August 10-14, the Vancouver Convention Centre will host the 2014 SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques) conference, its largest event to date. The conference is expected to attract 16,000 attendees from more than 60 countries to both the east and west buildings of the convention centre...

1. Start with a few of the essential buzzwords and work from there: future-proof, intuitive and disruptive. 2. Gather the oldest, whitest males from the company, put them in a boardroom and let the magic fly. 3. Pick a brand that you admire and then copy them. After all, imitation is the...

In late June chef Nick Nutting, along with business manager Andre McGillivray and front of house manager Jorge Barandiaran, opened Wolf in the Fog. The Tofino restaurant is one that knows its audience and strives to deliver a dining experience true to island life, with local ingredients and a laid...

After holding positions with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the London 2012 Olympic Games and, most recently, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as deputy CEO, 48-year-old Ty Speer succeeds Rick Antonson as CEO of Tourism Vancouver, the city's destination marketing and management organization. Speer arrives amid what Tourism Vancouver board chair...

Founder and former CEO of Coastal Contacts Inc. Roger Hardy announced today that his company, Hardy Capital Corp., along with a prominent group of Vancouver investors, has acquired 100 per cent of two online shoe retailers, Vancouver-based ShoeMe.ca and Seattle-based OnlineShoes.com, for an undisclosed amount. Hardy will be taking on the...

You might have most recently read about Wantering in the BCBusiness 30 Under 30 issue, where Wantering's co-founder Nicholas Molnar was featured as one of B.C.’s rising entrepreneurial stars. Wantering is a fashion search engine that lists more than 1.1 million products, drawing on more than 100 million “social signals”...

You may have most recently read about Wantering in the BCBusiness 30 Under 30 issue, where its co-founder Nicholas Molnar was featured as one of B.C.’s rising entrepreneurial stars. Wantering is a fashion search engine that lists more than 1.1 million products and draws on more than 100 million “social...

Despite splashing the headlines with unfavourable news in 2013—see-through pants, a resigning CEO, a loose-lipped founder—Lululemon Athletica Inc. managed to climb from the number 29 spot to the number 25 spot on our annual list of B.C.’s Top 100 Companies, increasing its revenue from $1.4 billion to $1.6 billion. The first...