ventureLAB’s President and CEO, Melissa Chee, was recently featured by CTV News to discuss the importance of boosting semiconductor output to remain competitive.
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York Region Business News
Explore an aggregated collection of business news, blogs, and press releases coming from the York Region business community.
Richmond Hill-born Entrepreneur Anika Sawni is Making Alcohol-Free Drinks Mainstream
Grüvi has 18 full-time employees and sells its zero-proof sangria and nitro mocha stout at 3,500 North American stores. Anika, now 27, was named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list in its food and beverage category in 2021.
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LG Partners With York Region Headquartered Magna in Developing Self-Driving Technology
The announcement comes a year and a half after LG and Magna launched a joint venture to producing e-powertrains, a key part in electric vehicles.
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Markham-Based QEA Tech Makes Fourteen Canadian Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2023 List
Melati’s latest venture, QEA Tech, focuses on energy loss in buildings. As much as 51 per cent of heating and air conditioning escapes through poorly sealed or insulated areas on a building’s exterior.
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York Region’s Top 10 Threats: What’s the plan for your business?
The Regional Municipality of York conducts an annual Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) to identify the top 10 threats facing our communities and York Region businesses. Use it to inform your business continuity plans so your business can be as effective as possible during a service disruption and quickly recover afterwards.
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York Region Headquartered Magna International to buy Veoneer Active Safety division for $1.5 billion
“This acquisition is consistent with our Go-Forward strategy to accelerate investment in high-growth areas, strengthens our ability to deliver systems solutions to meet customer needs, and positions Magna as a leading full-service ADAS provider,” said Magna CEO Swamy Kotagiri.
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Markham Headquartered Iristel Furthers Global Expansion with Service Introduction in Kenya
For this initial rollout of our global expansion, we will provide the capability to purchase SIP trunks, which can be aggregated with our onnet footprint, and DIDs.
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SHEIN Opens 170,000 sq ft. Warehouse and Office in Markham
SHEIN is a global fashion and lifestyle e-retailer committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all. We use on-demand manufacturing technology to connect suppliers to our agile supply chain, reducing inventory waste and enabling us to deliver a variety of affordable products to customers around the world.
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Economic Developers Association of Canada Announces – “The Best of the Best” – York Region Wins National Marketing Award
The Regional Municipality of York has been awarded a prestigious Marketing Canada Award. This year’s awards program attracted submissions from across Canada, coast to coast to coast.
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York Region Agri-Food Business Spotlight: Ontario Sustainable Agriculture
We’re excited to bring you a new local agri-food business spotlight, featuring Ontario Sustainable Agriculture, from the City of Markham!
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Celebrating Ontario’s Agriculture Week
October 3 to 9, 2022 is Ontario Agriculture Week, and we’re celebrating the abundance of food our farmers produce.
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Building Out Spokes: Selecting the Right Space for Your Company’s Return-to-Office Plan
The hub-and-spoke office model pushes companies to reconsider a single central location and instead have a primary head office with smaller ‘spoke’ locations placed closer to where employees live. Giving staff the option to come into the office with more accessibility and comfort.
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York Region Economic Development Team Spotlight Series: Jonathan Wheatle
In this edition of our team spotlight series, we connect with Jonathan Wheatle. As Director, he oversees the Economic Development portfolio and teams here at the Region.
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Markham Teen’s Passion for Art Evolves into Business Venture with Help From Summer Company Program
“I was inspired by my fellow art friends on social media to open up an art product shop so that I would be able to physically share my art with a larger audience,” said Lum.
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Stouffville Teen’s Passion for Photography Evolves into Business Venture with Help From Summer Company Program
Students between the ages of 15 and 29 who registered to return to school full-time the following September are eligible to apply.
The program “helps students learn critical skills such as financial management, networking, and creating a detailed business plan,” he adds.
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York Region Showcases Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
The Summer Company program offers mentorship and start-up funding of $3,000. York Region small business consultant Vivian Ho-Tam said it is an important way to help aspiring young business owners.
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