Lifestyle, lifestyle, lifestyle is the new location, location location! The Kootenays is a highly desirable place to live and work and the increased availability of infrastructure now makes it viable for technology businesses to take the leap and operate successfully away from the city. Kootenays supports innovation and startup success There are pockets of tech …
Media Release~ The Little Cabin Company has been established in Fernie BC to manufacture little cabins targeting the glamping market. The unique cabins have been designed and built to current BC and Canadian National Building Code standards and are highly insulated to keep them warm in the winter but cool in the hot summer sun. …
Press Release~ Kimberley’s SunMine has won the National Award for an Engineering Project or Achievement from Engineers Canada at their Awards Gala on May 26th in Charlottetown, PEI. The National Award for an Engineering Project or Achievement bestows distinction for an outstanding engineering project or achievement that has had a significant positive impact on society …
In its second year hosting the One Horse Town contest, Coors Banquet has selected Kimberley among six other towns, finalists eligible to win a legendary country music concert experience. The entertainers featured are JUNO award winner Dean Brody, and fellow Canadian Country musicians Chad Brownlee and River Town Saints. In the inaugural run of the …
You’re looking to take things in a new direction and you’re ready to take the plunge into owning your own business. You want to be your own boss! In our final instalment of our month-long Succession Planning Series, we’re going to look at why buying an existing business is a great idea. Of course, you …
In the last few weeks, we’ve explored a variety of ways to approach succession planning, from passing the business to a successor to transferring ownership through an employee or management buyout. Another option to keeping the vision behind your hard entrepreneurial efforts alive and seeing your company’s continued growth and success is the option of …
Media Release~ TELUS investing $8 million to connect Grand Forks homes and businesses directly to advanced fibre optic network Direct fibre connection will dramatically boost data capacity, providing local homes access to Internet speeds of up to 150 megabits per second and Optik TV, enhanced wireless coverage and speed, and even faster Internet speeds for …
In the last instalment of our Succession Planning Series we covered the steps involved in successfully transferring ownership of your beloved business to employees. This is one possibility when it comes to the succession of your business but how do you decide which path will be the best one to ensure the ongoing success of …
Those of you living and traveling through the Columbia Valley may have already noticed the new addition to the promotional landscape, but for those of you who’ve yet to see it, Imagine Kootenay is in full colour and living large… to reflect the dreams of the many passers by! The Imagine Kootenay billboard has recently …
In an effort to better represent what it is to live #yourbetterlife in these, our wonderful #Kootenays, Imagine Kootenay is now on Instagram! We’re posting and reposting all of the fantastic snapshots of life and work in our precious part of the world and would like you to join us. There are thousands of terrific …