North Bay marketing firm plans small business outreach Ian Ross Tough economic times can force a company to take stock and re-evaluate how to stay relevant to their clients. It’s not any different at Penney and Company Marketing in North Bay. The recession made them brainstorm on how they can stay in the mi

The kind of parties that Vanderwees Home & Garden Centre throws usually brings out the cops.

But their job is restricted to directing traffic of the hundreds of greenthumbers who make their way out to Mapleward Road on the outskirts of Thunder Bay.

There are many way to gauge the economic health of the city, Timmins airport manager Harley Nikkel says, but what he uses is one simple glance.

A food research expert is adopting a wait-and-see approach to a marketing push by Safeway grocery chain to provide shelf space for locally grown food.

A government funded $20-million mining innovation centre that will be built at the University of Toronto has key players in Sudbury's mining industry fuming.

The financial fires continue to burn brightly in Timmins with the promise of millions in investment and ongoing growth.

Since recently retiring from Smith and Associates Insurance, the company his father Lorne Smith founded in 1946 after 31 years, the Thunder Bay businessman has set off on a new adventure with his wife Jacqueline as the pair have developed Lloyd Smith Solutions.

The new corporate offices for Northern Credit Union in Sault Ste. Marie broke ground last week for the construction of $8 million building scheduled for completion next year.