We all know the saying: if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. A young Penticton entrepreneur has taken that wisdom to the extreme, opening up her own pet supply business to right some of the wrongs she has seen in the industry. Chrystina Barnard is the 25-year-old owner and operator […]

A pair of Kelowna restauranteers have just been recognized as the best small business employers in British Columbia. Jared Lee and Devon Murray’s restaurant, Central Kitchen + Bar, won the coveted Small Business BC award last week. The awards are the largest of their kind in the province, and aim to “recognize the outstanding achievements […]

Imagine having dentures made for you in the amount of time it takes for you to watch a movie. Perfit Dental Solutions, a Kelowna based non-traditional tech company, is home to the world’s first digital temporary denture. Before Perfit’s innovative technology, dentures would often take days to make, and the moulds would often be imperfect […]

For a young Jon Crofts the giant red grouper was one of the most exotic things he’d ever seen. At 19 years old Crofts had lived “a pretty sheltered life” in England, and the magnificent fish that were delivered every day to the supermarket where he worked were a connection to far-flung corners of the […]

Patrick Waunch, the owner and founder of Kelowna’s Rambow Mechanical Ltd., is nothing if not an evangelist for apprenticeship training. Waunch started Rambo when he moved to Kelowna in the 1980s. After buying a lakeside house on a whim he realized he needed to make some money, so he started the company and named it after […]

Name: Katrina Hansen Employer: Me! More specifially Pinned Boutique City: Kelowna Occupation: Owner/Operator of Pinned Boutique Tell us about your job: I get to be myself, hang out with my husband and meet the coolest people in our little boutique. Tell us about yourself: I’m a sincere yogini who loves pin-up and goth styles, 40s swing and death metal music. […]

In a nondescript, industrial building in West Kelowna a pair of immigrants have built an internationally recognized company. Geometrik Owners Vladimir and Natasha Bolshakov might not be that well known in the Okanagan “but whomever is involved in commercial construction, they are very much aware of the Geometric brand,” Vladimir says. Sitting at a board […]

A 50-year veteran of the Okanagan Valley wine industry was awarded the Vancouver International Wine Festival’s coveted Spirited Industry Professional Award last week. Harry McWatters, CEO and president of Encore Vineyards Ltd., was recognized in front of a crowd of his peers at an awards lunch Feb. 17. The SIP Award is presented annually to […]

A trio of third-year marketing students from Okanagan College’s School of Business are back on B.C. soil after placing second at the 12th annual BDC Marketing Case Competition. A total of 34 post-secondary institutions sent teams to the competition, which was hosted by Vanier College in Montreal last weekend. OC’s team, composed of Jacob Kuypers, […]

Janice Taylor likes to say she grew up “raised by the United Nations.” Born in Saskatchewan, her alcoholic dad left when she was young and her mom worked three jobs trying to stay afloat. Without her parents around a lot, Taylor spent a lot of time with other families in her neighbourhood – a multicultural […]