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Meet the founders of these Durham Region Creative Industries businesses
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2022 11:08 AM
By Jennifer Foden
These two businesses may be quite different from one another—a post-production sound studio and an event venue—but what they do have in common, is work that involves tons of creativity.
Footsteps images courtesy Jeremy Benning.
Footsteps Post-Production Sound Inc.Andy Malcolm, owner of the Uxbridge-based Footsteps Post-Production Sound Inc., has been making noise for almost 50 years. As a foley (sound effect reproduction) artist, he records everyday sounds heard in films,...
Meet the founders of Durham Region’s top food processing and manufacturing companies
Posted on Monday, November 28, 2022 09:55 AM
By Jennifer Foden
Durham Region is home to a diverse group of food processing and manufacturing companies. We chatted with three founders—who make shortbread, sprinkles and hot sauce—to learn more.
Eat My Shortbread, a wholesale and retail bakery located on Boundary Road in Oshawa, started in a small century home in Markham almost 30 years ago. Trisha Bower, the business’ Chief Baking Officer, takes pride in that every shortbread treat (bites, cookies, butter tarts, etc.) and...
Meet the founders of Durham Region’s leading micro-manufacturing businesses
Posted on Friday, October 14, 2022 02:13 PM
By Jennifer Foden
Durham Region is home to a diverse range of micro-manufacturing businesses. We sat down with the founders of two of them to learn more.
Seven years ago, Lisa Keizer, then raising funds for charitable and non-profit organizations, started making hair products at home after she saw her own hair thinning following years of using chemical straighteners. “I decided to embrace my curls,” says Lisa, now the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Up North Naturals. “And...
Location unveiled for future urban farm at corner of Harwood Avenue and Rossland Road in Ajax
Posted on Friday, October 07, 2022 11:19 AM
Whitby, Ontario – Yesterday, Durham College in partnership with Durham Region’s Economic Development and Tourism Division (Invest Durham), unveiled the temporary location for the new Barrett Centre of Innovation in Sustainable Urban Agriculture’s (Barrett Centre) urban farm at a groundbreaking ceremony in Ajax.
John Henry, Regional Chair and Chief Executive Officer, joined Bob and Francine Barrett of The Barrett Family Foundation; Don Lovisa, President, Durham College; Kelly O’Brien,...
Meet the founders of Durham Region’s innovative farming businesses
Posted on Friday, September 23, 2022 09:53 AM
By Jennifer Foden
These three farming businesses are not only contributing to the ongoing success of the agricultural industry in Durham Region, but they’re thinking outside the box while doing it.
Sunflower Farm Photo courtesy of Kailey Jane Photography
The Sunflower FarmUrsula Kressibucher, owner and CEO of The Sunflower Farm, an agricultural tourism (agri-tourism) business located in the north end of Durham Region, was born and raised on a farm in Beaverton—the same one her Swiss grandmother...