Grand Aire
Logistics is a high-pressure industry at the best of times, even without the mission-critical element of flying emergency medical personnel and vital human organs across the United States or...
Travel and Tourism Today
When suspected cases of pneumonia were first reported in Wuhan City, in the Hubei Province of China on December 31, 2019, it was a New Year’s Eve surprise no one anticipated. At first, other than...
Building a Client Base by Building Relationships
The customer may not always be right, but they definitely know what they want from their shopping interactions: quality, loyalty, and the ability to make meaningful connections with companies. In...
National Hemp Association
The National Hemp Association (NHA) is a non-profit organization that advocates for and educates all who have a collective interest in the strength and viability of the hemp industry in the United...
Green Wellness Life
Green Wellness Life distributes a wide array of cannabis-based goods, used primarily for health and healing. None of its wares—sold online and at a retail outlet in Caledonia, Michigan—will get you...
Lanau Industries
Martin Rondeau founded Lanau Industries in his hometown, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Quebec. The concept took off when Mr. Rondeau and his small team designed and built his first truck body in his...
BWS Manufacturing
As North American business continues to experience a return to domestic manufacturing, transportation becomes all the more vital to maintaining supply chains—and nowhere is that more evident than in...
SmartWay
SmartWay is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program dedicated to improving fuel efficiency and sustainability in freight supply chains. The concept for SmartWay was developed in 2002, when...
EuroSort
Dedicated to building sorting equipment that promise industry-best levels of accuracy and precision, EuroSort boasts products with the smallest discharge space possible—up to 50 percent smaller than...
Live Patrol Inc.
As different as they seem, construction sites, high-rise residential buildings, commercial businesses, storage facilities and even solar farms have one thing in common: they all need trustworthy and...
Bell and Howell
Technology-enabled field services company Bell and Howell services a wide range of automation equipment for multiple original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and markets across North America. We...
Specific Mechanical Systems
Specific Mechanical Systems is at a turning point. The Victoria, British Columbia-based firm specializes in the design, manufacture, and installation of brewing and distilling equipment for...
How Social Media has Redefined Marketing
The world of social media is like ever-shifting sands. No sooner had the world become almost blasé about the global reach that the internet afforded everyone from local school students busking on...
Emerging Technologies and the Impact of COVID
A modern warehouse is one that can keep up with the changing demands of customers and the evolving trends taking place in today’s world—one that has the budget, ability, and willingness to implement...
BIFMA
Marking its fiftieth anniversary, not-for-profit BIFMA International—the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association—plans to kick off 2023 by celebrating the milestone at its...
IOA Healthcare Furniture
IOA Healthcare Furniture has roots that go back to the mid-1920s when Gigi Delmestri launched a furniture business in northern Italy. “He inherited a company that was making horse-drawn steel...
Dauphin Americas
Dauphin Americas (a division of Dauphin HumanDesign Group), based out of Boonton, New Jersey, is the western wing of the Germany-based global office seating manufacturer, Dauphin HumanDesign Group....
Ghent
Gone are the bleak old days of stuffy office decor and felt notice boards crammed with memos—and thank goodness. Employers with an eye for the latest trends are going all out to make their offices...
Symbiote
Since 1982, Symbiote, a family-owned company founded by Travis Randolph, has been designing flexible, mobile, modular laboratory solutions for the education, technology, security, biotechnology, and...
Spec Furniture
Who says furniture can’t be strong and functional while also embracing stylish construction? Spec Furniture, a completely integrated company with a manufacturing process that utilizes North American...
Special-T
Special-T delivers Grade-A tables at Grade-C prices through innovation, supply chain best practices, and a customer-first attitude. The company’s story began twenty years ago when Loren Rozeboom...
ESI
As businesses across the globe struggle to adapt to the hybrid post-COVID work environment, one company has emerged as a leader in office furniture and equipment, surpassing the quality found at the...
Town of Windsor, Colorado
Although the Town of Windsor, Colorado was not immune to the COVID virus, its economy found a way not only to survive but thrive in the face of it. At the beginning of the pandemic, leaders and...
Truro & Colchester Partnership for Economic Prosperity
Since 2017, the Truro & Colchester Partnership for Economic Prosperity (TCPEP) has been driving economic development in the centrally located Colchester region of Nova Scotia. With the purpose of...
Walgre Transport
Walgre Transport is an asset-based, full-truckload and less-than-truckload logistics service provider specializing in dry-van services, refrigerated services, hazardous materials services, and...
Polyplex USA
Polyplex USA LLC, the Decatur, Alabama-based branch of Polyplex Corporation of India, is poised for massive growth. This major producer of polyethylene terephthalate—aka polyester or PET—film used...
Primera Carpet One Floor & Home
Your home is not only one of life’s biggest purchases but also your most prized possession, a place to feel safe and secure and express your individuality. Making those individual design choices,...
Logistics Sector Adapts, Changes and Grows
The past few years have created some uniquely difficult challenges for the logistics sector due to a number of factors, particularly the ongoing pandemic coupled with worldwide geopolitical and...
The Growing Presence of the Small Bank
Joining tiny, online-only banks is a growing trend amongst Gen Zs and Gen Ys. In fact, just as this writer came to think that using ‘indie banking’ to describe these small online banks could be an...
County of Grande Prairie No. 1
Located on Treaty 8 Territory in northwest Alberta and bordered by British Columbia, the Smoky River and the Wapiti River, the County of Grande Prairie No. 1 is home to a mix of thriving urban and...
City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw and its residents have never done anything half-heartedly. Residing in “Canada’s most notorious city,” Moose Javians are enormously proud of their Saskatchewan city and its reputation....
Peterborough & the Kawarthas, Ontario
With stunning scenery to appreciate both en route and at the destination, Peterborough & the Kawarthas marries natural beauty with a thriving and vibrant city. Conveniently located between major...
Envision Saint John: The Regional Growth Agency
In January 2021, the beginning of Year Two of the pandemic, most municipalities were working on survival plans. But not the Saint John Region in New Brunswick on Canada’s east coast. Their municipal...
West Prince Chamber of Commerce, Prince Edward Island
As a voice for western PEI, the West Prince Chamber of Commerce, headquartered in Bloomfield, is a member of the Atlantic Chamber of Commerce, a non-profit organization that fosters networking...
Eastern Prince Edward Island Chamber of Commerce
On Prince Edward Island, we headed east, crossing Queen’s County and bypassing the provincial capital of Charlottetown to come to King’s County, where we spoke with Lori MacGregor, Executive...
Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corporation
As a place to call home, the Myrtle Beach region in Horry County, South Carolina truly boasts something for everyone. It’s affordable, picturesque, and a competitive business market, amounting to a...
City of Greeley, Colorado
The city of Greeley, the county seat of Weld County, Colorado, has a growing population of over 110,000 people. The city has been experiencing an increase in both population and attention over the...
Town of Enfield, Connecticut
Home to 42,000 people and over 3,000 businesses, Enfield, Connecticut is the hub of the Hartford-Springfield interstate area. “It is the largest commercial and economic base for this north central...
Artizan Finishings
Artizan Finishings specializes in the installation of Exterior Insulation and Finish System (EIFS), architectural moldings, stone veneer, and cornice molding. As genuine craftsmen with years of...
John W. Egan Co. Inc.
Fresh paint expertly applied takes more than any layperson may at first imagine. Located in Newton, Massachusetts, John W. Egan Co. Inc. is trusted by industry leaders for everything from...
Redline Plastics
With its roots going back a century, this family-owned company provides solutions to clients both domestic and international. And innovation, quality, and professionalism are just a few of the words...
Performance Plastics Ltd.
Performance Plastics Ltd. (PPL) of Cincinnati, Ohio marked its fortieth anniversary this year as a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance thermoplastic components. The company...
RegO Products
With a broad range of flow-control components and engineered-to-order applications, including a wide array of valves, pressure regulators, and safety devices for mission-critical applications using...
Sound Investment or Risky Gamble?
For some time, cryptocurrency was heralded as the future of money and the ticket to wealth, while others took a position of caution and scepticism. The past few years have shown it’s a gamble like...
Trade Shows Are Back
What does a two-pound lobster have in common with an industrial crane weighing 40 tonnes? Truthfully, I can’t come up with a clever answer – they really don’t have much in common. However, the...
Convention Centres Re-Imagined
A far cry from the 1960s days of bare feet, daisy chains, and peace signs, the time of COVID-19 more recently highlighted one ideal of the flower power era—the human need for meaningful...
Arizona Association for Economic Development
Arizona has a remarkable track record when it comes to economic development. In fact, the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) recently named the Greater Phoenix Economic Council the...
ACO, Inc.
Dedicated to developing the best water management and drainage systems across the globe, ACO, Inc. improves the collection and reuse of water with its unique modular trench drains, in the process...
GNM Companies
With a specialty in heavy carpentry work and rough framing, Arizona-based GNM Companies, LLC, is a family-owned construction company with 25 years of experience crafting homes, condos, hotels and...
City of Chandler, AZ
Founded in 1912, the City of Chandler is the fourth largest city in Arizona, with over 280,000 residents. The city’s Economic Development Director, Micah Miranda, says that Chandler has been known...