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Anamika Gioia has been professionally popping lotus seeds since she launched Sacred Foods in 2020. (Her small-batch biz earned her a spot on our 30 Under 30 list last year.) But the Vancouver outfit’s roots go back much further: the...
The name and brand advantage that one of Canada’s oldest microbreweries has had on newcomers has slowly but surely run out over time. Started in 1984, Granville Island Brewing has been an institution since its inception. For a long while, it...
When Helen and Glen Davies moved from Vancouver to Invermere some seven years ago, they weren’t sure exactly what the plan was. They did know they wanted to start a company of some kind. After a couple of different ventures...
You may not score $10 finds at ex-celebrity stylist Courtney Watkins’s designer consignment store Mine & Yours, but you’ll bag vintage statement pieces from the likes of Gucci, Chanel, Prada and more. Clean black-and-white interiors make up the 1,100-square-foot posh...
Asked when she knew that her company was actually going to make it, Blume co-founder and CEO Karen Danudjaja gets earnest. “I don't know if I’ve had that moment yet,” she says with a chuckle. Maybe we can help her with...
Life Story: Joshua and Joyce Yim’s bubble tea obsession started young. The siblings were under 10 when their parents would bring them to local boba shops around Vancouver. After awhile, they didn’t want to ask their folks for bubble tea...
Life Story: In 2019, tired of what he calls the “bland, watery hummus and other dips” at the grocery store, Salt Spring Island native Justin Kopetzki made his own at home in 45 flavours, using a food processor. “I started...
Life Story: Helping people always came first for Stephanie Huen. When she was young, she thought the best way to do that would be as a forensic scientist, but that vision quickly morphed into social work while she was pursuing...
Life Story: Ariss Grutter and Tess Gobeil knew they didn’t look like typical cobblers when they went into boot manufacturing. The co-founders of B.C.’s only female and queer-owned leatherwork and shoe repair shop connected on a very important note: they both...
Life Story: Childhood bake sales and lemonade stands may have triggered her passion to be an entrepreneur, but Kayla Gabelhouse never imagined herself a jewelry baron. Growing up in Edmonton and Kelowna, she didn’t know a ton about making jewelry to begin...