Lufa Farms, a Canada-based commercial agricultural company, has established a rooftop greenhouse in Laval, Quebec, a development aimed at increasing its cultivation capacity by three fold and expanding its sustainable food and fresh-produce ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
With the April 2013 acquisition of AkzoNobel's North American architectural coatings business by PPG Industries, customers can now purchase PPG Protective and Marine Coatings (PMC) products at Dulux Paint stores across Canada. This is the ...
Tags: Construction, coaitng
Mattress industry veteran Normand Ricard has taken back the company he founded almost 40 years ago, having acquired what is now known as Rev Sleep Corp. from Bedford Capital, a private equity firm based here. The terms of the deal, which ...
Tags: Mattress, Light Industry, Daily Use
TeraXion Inc of Quebec, Canada (which designs and manufactures optical components and modules for high-speed fiber-optic transmission networks, fiber lasers and optical sensing applications) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, optical components
Mirage, the hardwood flooring brand renowned for quality, is proud to announce its Mirage 30th Anniversary Rebate Sale. This major hardwood flooring sale is taking place across North America* at all participating Mirage dealers from October ...
Tags: Construction, hardwood flooring
Danone in Canada has announced plans to invest C$40m (US$38.5m) to expand production of Oikos Greek yogurt at its facility in Boucherville, Quebec, a move which would create 25 direct and 250 indirect jobs. The company said it has ...
Tags: Yogurt Production, Food
Target announced the opening dates for 23 additional store locations in Canada, including its first stores in Quebec and Nova Scotia, along with additional Ontario locations in Ottawa and surrounding area. The stores are scheduled to ...
Freightliner Trucks—the official hauler of NASCAR—has launched its NASCAR weekend "Freightliner Hauler Challenge" Sweepstakes. Running September 1-28, 2013, the sweepstakes is part of the "Freightliner Hauler Challenge: Journey ...
Tags: Transportation, Trucks
Canada's newest union—Unifor—has elected Jerry Dias as its first national president. Dias had been assistant to the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) national president since 2007. The Unifor founding convention got underway this ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Cleveland, Ohio-based Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced Thursday that the United Steelworkers Union local membership have ratified a three-year labor contract agreement for its Bloom Lake Mine in Fermont, Quebec. The new labor ...
Are European trucks better than their North American brethren in terms of fuel economy? Given the price of fuel over there (you think we have it bad?), it's a question I've pondered more than once. And in a couple of weeks, we'll have an ...
Tags: Transportation, Trucks
Canada-based Maple Leaf Foods has entered into an agreement to sell Rothsay, its rendering and biodiesel business, to Darling International of Irving, Texas, for C645m ($614.11m). This move is a part of the Maple Leaf Foods' plan to focus ...
Tags: Maple Leaf Foods, Food
Furniture West and the Canadian Home Furnishings Alliance, two of this country's three regional associations of furniture and bedding manufacturers, importers and associate members, are merging effective immediately. The new organization ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Light Industry
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline's Flulaval Quadrivalent (Influenza Virus Vaccine) for the active immunization of people three years of age and more to help prevent disease caused by seasonal influenza ...
Tags: Flulaval Quadrivalent
In the wake of its acquisition of The Brick in March, Leon's Furniture said its sales for the second quarter had essentially tripled over the same period of 2012 while earnings were up by 53%. Leon's reported system-wide sales of C$573.4 ...
Tags: Brick, Construction