Alberta Business Marketing

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 [...]

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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. Averaging the total revenues across all V100 companies does show an [...]

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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. Net income sums for Alberta’s top 30 [...]

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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. Consider aggregating all the revenues of the V100 company [...]

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Cover Story: THE VENTURE 100 Growth is on the Horizon Companies bet on a reversal in fortunes The Venture 100 Alberta’s 100 top performing companies The Next 100 PwC Private 50 Big Deals of 2009 Largest Employers Not-for-Profit 50 Methodology and Notes Rebuilding an Empire, Brick by Brick Canada’s biggest furniture retailer is on the rebound The New Titans Change was inevitable – just ask the new CEOs [...]

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