Tag: KEDCO
KEDCO Update: Week Ending March 9, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development John-Paul Shearer, Director of Business Development and Christa Wallbridge, Project Manager – Business Development attended the 1st Annual Sustainable Energy Symposium at St. Lawrence College on March 8. The symposium was aimed at engaging the Sustainable Energy Industry in the development of innovative technology solutions and knowledge [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending March 2, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development Elizabeth Allen, Project Manager of Labour Market Development will be participating in the KEYS Career Speed Networking Event on Tuesday, March 6 at the Confederation Place Hotel. The event will feature over 25 local employers. The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for internationally [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending February 24, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development The Entrepreneurship Centre at KEDCO is now accepting applications for Summer Company 2012. Funded by the Government of Ontario, the Summer Company Program gives students between the ages of 15-29 years grants of up to $3,000 to start their own business. Interested students are encouraged to contact [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending February 17, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development On February 13, Christa Wallbridge, Project Manager – Business Development hosted Ann-Marie Kelleher, Economic Development Officer with the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario to Kingston. Wallbridge and Kelleher visited with local companies currently investigating FedDev Ontario funding programs. Kelleher will return to Kingston in March [...]
Government Grants Offered For Kingston Student Business Entrepreneurs
The Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO) has announced that the “Summer Company” program is open for business. Students between the ages of 15 and 29 years old are eligible to receive grants up to $3,000 to begin their own business. This Government of Ontario sponsored program will be administered in the Kingston area by KEDCO’s [...]
Kingston Companies Chosen for Windstream Energy’s Wind Power Project
Windstream Energy has announced its decision to invest in Kingston, home to Ontario’s first contracted offshore wind power project. At a press conference on Friday organized by the Lake Ontario Offshore Network (LOON), Windstream announced preliminary agreements with Anchor Concrete Products Ltd., George A. Wright & Son Ltd. and M. Sullivan & Son Ltd. for [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending January 13, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development John-Paul Shearer, Director of Business Development along with a local industry leader was in Quebec City on January 9 to meet with a Canadian company specializing in floating wharves. Floating wharves are built according to the needs and geography of the location where they will be installed. [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending December 23, 2011
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development John-Paul Shearer, Director of Business Development was in Toronto on December 19 to meet with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and discuss direct foreign investment from a major manufacturer and the opportunity to export their product into the United Kingdom and European countries. [...]
Provincial Grant Creates Jobs for Kingston’s Transformix Engineering Inc.
The Ontario government is helping create 20 new full-time jobs and retain 80 highly-skilled positions at Kingston’s Transformix Engineering Inc. The company is being supported with a $177,678 grant from the Eastern Ontario Development Fund. This grant will allow Transformix to purchase and install new machines to construct larger, more complex equipment for multinational manufacturing [...]
KEDCO Update: Week Ending December 2, 2011
HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT PROGRESS & ACTIVITIES Business Development Jeff Garrah, CEO was interviewed by Brian Mann from WBEZ Radio in Chicago. Mann is working with North Country Public Radio to feature Canadian cities with economic success stories. Garrah is featured in a series of radio episodes addressing business and labour market development. To listen to [...]
