Tag: Kingston Business
KEDCO Update: Week Ending May 11, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development Jeff Garrah, CEO, John-Paul Shearer Director of Business Development attended the SIAL Canada (Salon International de l’Alimentation) International Food Expo in Montreal, Quebec from May 9-11. The SIAL Canada show is one of the food processing industry’s most important meeting places for North America, hosting close to [...]
Kingston to be Represented at International Food Expo
The Kingston Economic Development Corporation has announced it will be attending the Salon International de l’Alimentation (SIAL Canada) International Food Expo in Montreal, along with the Ontario East Economic Development Commission. The SIAL Canada show – one of the food processing industry’s most important gatherings in North America – will run from May 9 to [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending May 4, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development Knorr Brake Ltd., part of the German based Knorr-Bremse Group, the world’s leading manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles, has received support through the provincial Eastern Ontario Development Fund for expansion of their Kingston facility and the creation of 18 new jobs. The Eastern [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending April 27, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development The Entrepreneurship Centre at KEDCO is seeking local business professionals interested in supporting the next generation of local business owners in Kingston. The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) provides start-up financing to young entrepreneurs aged 18-34. In addition, CYBF provides mentoring from experienced business professionals to help [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending April 20, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development Christa Wallbridge, Project Manager – Business Development and Rita Byvelds, Senior Program Advisor with the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation have been conducting meetings with local companies to promote the benefits of the Eastern Ontario Development Fund (EODF) program. The program supports projects that create and [...]
Bombardier Opens Factory in Brazil, Kingston to Build & Test Train
On Friday, Bombardier Transportation inaugurated a new, state-of-the-art monorail vehicle manufacturing facility in Hortolândia – São Paulo, Brazil. The new production site design and construction is based on technology transferred from Bombardier’s manufacturing and engineering hubs here in Kingston – where one of Brazil’s trains will also be built and tested – as well as [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending April 13, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development John Paul Shearer, Director of Business Development presented on the Building Sustainable Economies panel at the 2012 Economic Revitalization Conference on April 11. The Conference, organized by the Queen’s School of Business Monieson Centre was themed Sustainable Economies, Sustainable Communities and connected academics, policymakers, community leaders, and [...]
Kingston Housing Starts Decline in the first quarter of 2012
Preliminary data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) indicates the Kingston Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) had 159 housing starts in the first quarter of 2012, which was down from the 280 starts during the same period in 2011. The decline in the first quarter was due entirely to the apartment segment, and in fact [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending April 6, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development KEDCO has fielded a number of enquires related to the 2012 Provincial Budget announcement of the Ontario, Northern Ontario and Eastern Ontario Development Corporations dissolution as part of the province’s agency reduction strategy. This will have no impact on KEDCO or other regional economic development organizations as [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending March 30, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development On March 28, John-Paul Shearer, Director of Business Development and Donna Gillespie, Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications attended the annual Kingston Housing Industry Roundtable hosted by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Topics at the roundtable included reviewing the Kingston economy, resale market trends, rental [...]
