Black Business Ownership on the Rise
Black-owned businesses across North America have a rich legacy, one that shows no sign of slowing down. While some of us may think of Black entrepreneurship as relatively new, members of the Black community have long made inroads in business sectors as diverse as health care, aesthetics, construction, restaurants and retail, real estate, and technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics, to name but a few.
Terradyne Armored Vehicles
Terradyne Armored Vehicles, Inc. designs and builds armored vehicles for law enforcement, border patrol agents, and military medical personnel. At its base in Newmarket, Ontario, the company celebrated its tenth anniversary this year as an independent manufacturer of ultra-tough four-wheeled vehicles. Armored vehicles produced by the ISO-certified company have been put through stringent testing involving bullets and bombs.
TDL Gentek
With 45 years of IT channel experience, TDL Gentek is a technology, telecommunications, and consumer goods specialist serving more than 250 brands in Canada in the broadband, security, unified communications, networking, ProAV, and consumer goods sectors. Renowned for its proficiency and value-added services, TDL Gentek is dedicated to assisting its partners in finding the best solutions for their clients regardless of business type including ISP, WISP, MSP, SP, VAR, and consumer goods retailers.
Commend Americas
For more than half a century, Commend has developed and manufactured Security and Integrated Communication systems that protect people, buildings, and assets.
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Projection
Projection provides a customized solution for any event. As a full-service, nationwide event production company, this business delivers event production design and services including presentation management, networking, content capture and live streaming, ePosters, digital signage, overflow solutions, strategy and creative services, general session production, breakout room management, and more.
Cloward H2O
Based in Lindon, Utah, Cloward H2O has brought its aquatic engineering skills to water parks, aquariums, splash pads, fountains, white water rafting sites, and the world’s deepest swimming pool, among other recreational water facilities for over 45 years.
Makloc
For over 50 years, Alberta-based Makloc has served the building needs of customers in oil and gas, commercial and industrial, and the renewable energy sector. Known for quality, customer service, and on-time project delivery—no matter how far-flung the project—Makloc is a one-stop shop for both modular and field construction projects.
H.H. Barnum Company
The multi-award-winning H.H. Barnum Company has taken great pride in building a legacy that prioritizes customers and employees for more than 75 years. Offering value-added services and factory automation solutions since 1946, the company’s solutions help businesses get up and running, optimize their workflow, and maintain efficiency.
Tempeff
Part of the NIBE Group—an international association of more than 120 independent enterprises that manufacture, distribute, and promote their own brands globally—Tempeff strives to reduce carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency by developing, manufacturing, and marketing environmentally friendly, energy-efficient solutions for indoor climate comfort for all types of properties through sustainable efficiency and exceptional eco-design.
Divert NS
With a mission to improve the environment, economy, and quality of life, Divert NS has been working with Nova Scotians to reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover resources since 1996.
