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 …
A new shared event calendar for the Nelson area has given residents and visitors an efficient way to find out what’s happening in the community.
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 …
Not many schools can promise a student will have a job at the end of their studies. This year, Selkirk College’s cooking program is offering its grads their choice of them. “Right now we have 16 students and more than 40 jobs to fill,” says Simon Parr, Instructional Assistant for Professional Cook (Level One) at …
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 …
The adVenture Capital Conference is designed to introduce entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs to business opportunities in British Columbia’s Elk Valley.
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There were several challenges facing local businesses unearthed through last year’s Business Walks, and succession planning was chief among them. Given that almost half of business owners planning to sell in the next five years have not prepared themselves with a succession plan and have no effective exit strategy that will assure the ongoing success …
There’s a great deal written here (oh, and here, and here, and here!) about the variety of advantages to creating “your better life” in the Kootenays, both East and West. This makes for a tremendous resource for looking for opportunities but equally so for listing your opportunity on Imagine Kootenay. They are vast and varied, …