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With BC Hydro’s online electricity tracking tools, you can easily monitor your business’ energy use on an hourly, daily, weekly and monthly basis. Understanding your energy use patterns can help you make smart energy choices for your business. Finding ways to improve energy usage can significantly impact your business’ bottom...
Global shipping giant FedEx has been scrambling to restore its online databases after a June Petya ransomware attack wreaked havoc on the company's computer systems and crippled shipments from their European TNT Express subsidiary. This was the latest in a recent global outbreak of ransomware attacks that experts predict will cost...
BCBusiness + Uniserve In the oil and gas industry, market shifts are expected—but not always easy to navigate. Out of this unfortunate reality, opportunities arise. The telecommunications, media and technology industry can assist global and national businesses in a changing market. Nicholas Jeffery, CEO of Uniserve Communications Corporation, is particularly interested...
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BCBusiness + Grant Thornton LLP As a company owner, how do you choose one professional accounting firm over another? Does size matter? How about reputation? Or perhaps it’s how well the organization treats its employees and clients and whether they engage with...
Long gone are the days when luck was an acceptable component of any sales person’s arsenal. So, too, is the notion that opportunities simply happen. It’s just not done that way anymore, says Boyd Liski, co-founder of FOCUS Selling Systems (FSS), a service and training company that he and his brother...
BCBusiness + Raymond James Financial Planning Ltd. It’s one thing to trust thousands of dollars to a friendly investment adviser at the bank. It’s quite another to hand over millions. That’s the worry for many family-business owners after selling their life’s...
During his interview with Canada Wide chairman and CEO Peter Legge at the BCBusiness Top 100 Event, David Foster popped up from his chair, walked into the audience and asked this question: “What is the key to success?” The audience...
Whole foods? Great in theory, but in real life inconvenient and annoying. Much better to cut them up and enclose them in plastic. Presumably that’s why the Whole Foods Market Inc. supermarket chain briefly tried marketing pre-peeled oranges in plastic...