The Lists
Unprecedented times goes without saying. (Also, we never want to hear the word "pivot" again.) Despite the challenges of 2021, B.C. has no shortage of companies that are growing and growing—here are the Top 100 largest businesses in the province...
So who gained—and lost—the biggest percentages of revenue in a year unlike any other? Revenue change: 2,947.1% Net income: $448,000 (converted from USD)Net income change: NA The Vancouver-headquartered mining company tops the list of gainers with a whopping 2,947-percent increase in revenue for 2020.
The economies of B.C. and the world may never be the same after the watershed events of 2020. Public health protocols accelerated a new, digital era as face-to-face dealings became risky business. Thanks to pandemic-related closures and disruptions, the greatest...
2019 rank: 22Chief executive: Linda Seymour Revenue by fiscal year ($000) 2020: 1,129,0002019: 1,305,000% change: –13.5 2019 rank: 56Chief executive: Fiona Dalton Revenue by fiscal year ($000) 2020: 1,037,9162019: 930,622% change: 11.5 2019 rank: 43Chief executive: U. Gary Charlwood Revenue by fiscal year ($000) 2018: 1,000,000 e2017: 1,250,000...
2019 rank: 1Chief executive: Darren Entwistle Revenue by fiscal year ($000) 2020: 15,463,0002019: 14,658,000% change: 5.5 2019 rank: 3Chief executive: Jim Pattison Revenue by fiscal year ($000) 2020: 12,700,000 2019: 10,900,000 % change: 16.5 2019 rank: 2Chief executive: Donald Lindsay Revenue by fiscal year ($000)...
If B.C. has been through the wringer, you’d almost never know it from looking at our eighth annual 30 Under 30 list. Many of the winners found ways to grow their businesses during a world-changing pandemic. For some, that meant...
Life Story: Albert Kim doesn’t have a lemonade-stand story from his childhood—not quite, anyway. In high school, Kim, who grew up mostly in Richmond after immigrating to B.C. from South Korea at age five, made $400 by creating registration software...
Life Story: Courtney Peters found her way to business by way of banking and medicine. Although the Surrey native comes from an entrepreneurial family, she had no plans to head in the same direction. Peters, who got her first job...
Life Story: LeeJoo Hwang is either lying or being overly humble when says he was “just a normal kid growing up” in Surrey’s Fraser Heights neighbourhood. In Grade 9, Hwang became super invested in the PC video game League of...
Life Story: When Meg O’Hara was 16, she sold her first painting for $100—to her late grandmother, after whom she’s named. “It was the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me,” recalls O’Hara, who grew up in Toronto in...