Business | Mar 10
Spring is in the air. People’s spirits are lifting as the sun shines and weather warms. Our snowbirds are returning to the north. So, it is time to start planning spring activities. Knowing that the health of a town’s downtown is often seen as a reflection of the health of that community at large...
Business | Mar 03
PARRY SOUND – A free seminar will teach local business owners how to succeed in the online market.
Today the Parry Sound Area Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Business Centre Nipissing Parry Sound is holding an E-Business seminar hosted by A Couple of Chicks e-marketing.
The...
Business | Mar 03
GRAVENHURST — Electronics retailer The Source is the newest tenant announced for the south-end commercial development in Gravenhurst, developers of the retail plaza have confirmed.
Ingrid Beausoleil, development manager for Trinity Development Group, which has partnered with the Otis...
Business | Mar 03
The Huntsville Business Improvement Area’s (BIA) annual general meeting last Wednesday had a G8 Summit flavour to it.
Not only was Parry Sound-Muskoka MP Tony Clement presented with the Friends of the Downtown award for his work in bringing the international meeting to Huntsville, but...
Business | Mar 03
With the help of area stores, Canadian Tire Corporation has donated 980 sleeping bags with built-in airbeds to the Ontario Winter Games.
Games manager Myke Malone and chair Scott Aitchison accepted the bags right off the truck in the receiving area of the Huntsville Canadian Tire...
Business | Mar 03
Good News Biz Files
We hear it in the news all the time lately: high unemployment rates, timid investors, higher bankruptcies, but what we’re not hearing about are all the success stories of businesses that have managed to navigate through turbulent waters to a...
Business | Feb 24
MUSKOKA LAKES — Securities held for stormwater management provisions at Touchstone resort will be returned, a Muskoka Lakes committee decided last week.
Neighbours criticized the resort, located on Lake Muskoka off Muskoka Road 118, last December for failing to build an environmental...
Business | Feb 24
BRACEBRIDGE — If you are in need of employment or are thinking about switching careers, a job fair is being held at the Bracebridge Sportsplex March 1.
The Bracebridge Job Fair 2010 begins at 10 a.m. and runs until 4 p.m. at the sportsplex, located at 110 Clearbrook Trail.
Business | Feb 24
Innovation Muskoka, an initiative from Muskoka Futures, is welcoming the end of winter with a couple of seminars of particular interest to business people, plus a special workshop for the writers in our area.
On Monday, March 1, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Nipissing University, 125...
Business | Feb 24
Most business experts and lay people alike will agree that a very important factor for success in business is to know your market. If you don’t know who your customers are, what they like and what form of advertising they respond to, how can you be sure you’re giving them what they really want and...
Business | Feb 24
Kawartha Credit Union, with branches in Huntsville and Bracebridge, is once again on the list of the 50 Best Small and Medium Employers in Canada with an 11th place finish.
The study, now in its sixth year, is published in the Globe and Mail.
“We are absolutely thrilled to...
Business | Feb 17
A unique retail clothing business is expected to open its doors later this month.
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