September 02, 2010
Category: BizBeat - Editor's Blog
Tags: Athabasca River, David Schindler, Ed Stelmach, oil sands, Rob Renner, Ron Lipert, Shell Albian Sands
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Stelmach no doubt frustrated when his ministers undermine him
By Paul Marck
Premier Ed Stelmach must feel a bit like the guy who sweeps up behind the elephants at the circus parade. He does a good job, wins applause for his effort, but never knows when the next mess is going to land in front of him. And so it was this week with government and industry’s ham-handed dealing with the Schindler report on oil sands pollutants in the Athabasca River.
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September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: largest employers
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The 50 biggest payrolls More →
September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: Paul Douglas, PCL Construction Holdings Ltd.
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Changes aplenty in Alberta’s executive suites in 2009 introduced new faces to the province’s boardrooms. But how do companies know they have the right person for the job? More →
September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: Bill Comrie, Bill Gregson, Brick
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Bill Gregson is turning around Canada’s biggest furniture retailer — with a little help from founder Bill Comrie More →
September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: analysis, growth, V100
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With balance sheets written in red last year, companies are betting on a better year ahead
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September 01, 2010
Category: What's New
Tags: Expo, Expo 2017, World's Fair
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Will Edmonton’s 2017 Expo bid help the city – and the province – mature?
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September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: Founding, V100, visualization
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One of the pieces of data we collect for the V100 is the year when the company was founded. We wondered, how old (or young) are Alberta’s top businesses? First off we wanted to look at the companies with roots. Below are all the companies that were founded before 1960. Behold the grey eminences of the V100. More →
September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: Alberta, data, economy, revenue, V100, visualization
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In the midst of Alberta’s difficult 2009 fiscal year, the revenue posted overall in the Venture 100 can be overlooked by revenue declines in individual companies. The prevalence of revenue declines across the V100 charts casts a particularly bearish picture of Alberta’s 100 largest companies. More →
September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: Alberta, data, economy, profit, V100, visualization
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Truncating the Venture 100 list into thirds would group net income figures together in similar-sized packages. In the top third, data collected from the past three editions of the V100 shows that 2009 was a net income anomaly for an otherwise highly profitable class of Alberta’s top 30 companies. More →
September 01, 2010
Category: Venture 100
Tags: Alberta, revenue, V100, visualization
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The Venture 100 charts are dominated by large companies with massive revenues. Their contributions to the gross domestic product of the cities they’re headquartered in are important, but at first blush it’s difficult to see how vital a major corporate headquarters can be to a smaller centre. More →