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B.C.’s 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year

  2009 ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR  

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2009 ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR

 

 

Ryan Beedie: 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year

While for much of 2009 corporate Canada fretted over balance sheets and talked of retrenching, for the hungry entrepreneur, it was nothing but go, go,

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Video: Ryan Beedie’s Acceptance Speech

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Ryan Beedie, president of real estate developer The Beedie Group, is the Pacific Region overall…

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Video: Interview with Ryan Beedie

Ryan Beedie, president of real estate developer the Beedie Group, is the overall BCBusiness 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year.

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Winner: Technology and Media

"I come from a family of entrepreneurs. I worked many years at the foot of my father in the toy wholesale business in Calgary,” David…

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Winner: Real Estate and Construction

Walking through Langley Concrete Group’s 110,000-square-foot precast plant in Chilliwack, Mark Omelaniec displays an old-fashioned enthusiasm for efficiency and solid craftsmanship.
His pride is obvious as…

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Video: Interview with Mark Omelaniec

Mark Omelaniec, the president of Langley Concrete, is the 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year winner in the Real Estate & Construction category.

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Winner: Business to Consumer

Growth hasn’t robbed Kin Wah and Kin Hun Leung of the spirit that drove their father, Chie Yau Leung, when he set up a 2½-metre-long…

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Video: Interview with Kin’s partners

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Kin's Farm Market partners Kin Hun Leung, brother Kin Wah Leung and Kin Wah's wife…

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Winner: Cleantech

Brad Miller has a motto: fail often, fail fast and fail cheap, then get back to the drawing board. Perhaps not every entrepreneur would embrace…

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Video: Interview with Brad Miller

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IMW Industries Ltd. CEO Brad Miller is winner of the BCBusiness 2009 Entrepreneur of the…

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Winner: Mining and Metals

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That’s the famous line from Dickens’ 1859 classic A Tale of Two Cities,

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Winner: Health Science

In the biotech industry, where success depends on a steady flow of venture capital and investors willing to wait years for profits to materialize, there’s…

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Winner: Business to Business

When Brett Hodson was given the opportunity to buy the water and utilities division of Terasen from new owners Kinder Morgan in December 2005, he…

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The 2009 Runners Up

Family Business

CEO, ABC Recycling Ltd.

What began as a scrap-peddling business in 1912 has since passed through the hands of four generations of the Yochlowitz family.

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Making the Decision: Entrepreneur of the Year 2009

Anyone can nominate a person for Entrepreneur of the Year, as long as the candidate is primarily responsible for the performance of a company that…

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