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Archive for May, 2009
Cash Flow Fixes. Improving your cash flow now
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Learn how to grow through recession and get the most out of life from the Chairman of FirstEnergy Capital Corporation and Alberta’s Business Person of the Year, W. Brett Wilson, in this three-part video series Strategies for Success.
A year ago three bankers sharing a stage wouldn’t have been much of a draw. But the appearance of ATB Financial’s Dave Mowat, Canadian Western Bank’s Larry Pollock and Servus Credit Union’s Garth Warner before a lunch of the Edmonton CFA Society on April 30 offered three insiders’ takes on a financial implosion that, thankfully, all three survived. (more…)
There are a number of things that business owners should be thinking about before selling their business. Here Doug Robbins, President and Founder of Robbinex Inc., talks about some key things to think about before selling your business including planning ahead, assembling a team of experienced advisers, knowing your worth, doing your due diligence and the biggest mistake business owners make in the process. (more…)
Last November, the diamond industry and the N.W.T. government partnered to attract, and keep, skilled southern labour. Now with the industry in contraction, can the territory still create a resident, taxpaying workforce?
Harley Hotchkiss not only co-founded the Calgary Flames with the late Doc Seaman and his brother B.J. and chaired the National Hockey League’s board of governors, but he has also been one of Alberta’s most successful oilmen. Peter C. Newman has described him as “the most influential of the quiet establishment.” Adapted from his absorbing, just-published memoir, Hat Trick: A Life in the Hockey Rink, Oil Patch and Community (written with Paul Grescoe), Hotchkiss talks about his long, cherished friendship with the legendary oilman, billionaire and, most recently, wind power promoter T. Boone Pickens. (more…)
A number of people have asked me what I think of the Precision Drilling “bailout.” People connected to the oil and gas sector in downtown Calgary, especially, see Alberta Investment Management Corporation’s $380-million lifeline to Precision Drilling Trust as the Alberta government’s way of saving the creator of thousands of well-paid jobs in rural areas and small towns — the Stelmach heartland — at the expense of smaller competitors and needed rationalization throughout the oilfield services sector. I think otherwise. Here’s why. (more…)
A look at how enterprising companies have capitalized on the North’s “opportunities”
