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CELEBRATE SMALL BUSINESS WEEK OCTOBER 16 to 22

Victoria celebrates Small Business Week

Join retailers, professionals, restaurateurs and other small businesses in honouring their successes and sharing ideas and inspiration during Small Business Week, Oct. 16 to 22.Continued on page C4

Spotlight shines on innovation and ambition in Canada’s small business community

Jennifer BlythBlack Press

From its ever-growing craft brewing and winery industries to high-tech successes, Greater Victoria’s small business are central to the local economy.

Certainly sectors such as government and the military have a significant economic impact here in the Capital Region, but sup-porting those large-scale employers – and their employees – are myriad small busi-nesses. Accountants, retailers, doctors and aestheticians, they all help fuel the local economy. And we haven’t even mentioned Victoria’s eclectic array of restaurateurs and fashion designers. Small and medium-sized businesses are the engine of the Canadian economy. They account for 99.8 per cent of all Canadian companies and employ more than 60 per cent of private sector workers. To celebrate this contribution and support entrepreneurs in building successful, innovative businesses, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) hosts Small Business Week® activities across the country.

Celebrated each year during the third week of October, Small Business Week 2011 runs Oct. 16 to 22.

For more than 30 years, BDC has provided opportunities to share success stories, talk to leading business experts, exchange innovative ideas and participate in events held across the country.

This year, look for ideas and inspiration under the theme Power Up Your Business. Invest. Inno-vate. Grow.

“Small Business Week is an opportunity to reflect on the challenges Canadian entrepre-neurs must face and how we can support them,” says BDC President and CEO Jean-René Halde. “Innovation is a hot issue in Canada, which is why we have chosen to place it at the centre of our discussions. By presenting inspiring suc-cess stories, we want to show that, in business, innovation does not depend on intuition, but

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INvEST, INNOvATE and GROWyour small business

Investing in your business, looking for innovations and

growing can be good for business owners and staff, but

also for the local economy.

Whether tourism or high-tech, retail or service industry, small business is key to Greater Victoria’s economy.

And for those looking to continue along a path of business success and growth, the theme of this year’s Small Business Week of Invest, Innovate, Grow is timely.

InvestImproving business productivity can be as simple

as investing in tangible assets like new electronics and machines, and as well as time for skills training and development of new products and processes.

Howevr 2010, only one in five Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises were planning to invest in new production technologies, says the Business Devel-opment Bank of Canada. (BDC)

How can businesses get started investing in their business?

• Start with a strategic plan that outlines a long-term company vision and practical steps for achieving it. Make sure employees are on board and remember to invest in training. New equipment or technological solutions won’t help if employees don’t know how to use them.

• Invest in education and training, one of several intangible assets that Canadian businesses can under-value.

• Invest in other intangible assets such as research and development, business processes and best prac-tices, external contacts and partnerships, market devel-opment and supply chain management. Investing isn’t just about buying things; it’s also about developing new ideas and better ways of operating!

InnovateWhile Canada ranks 14th out of 17 industrial coun-

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Innovation generally brings to mind some dazzling new gadget or technological breakthrough, however 95 per cent of real-world business innovation is “incre-mental innovation”— using existing technology to solve new problems or to do more with less, explains the BDC. For example, find smarter ways of design-ing an existing product, organizing production and improving processes to cut costs and buy a new piece

Canada’s Business Development Bank, BDC, has almost 1,900 employees and more than 100 business centres across the country. It offers financing, subordinate financing, venture capital and consulting services to 29,000 small and medium-sized companies whose success is vital to Canada’s economic prosperity.

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Profile 2010 study from the Gov-ernment of British Columbia and Western Economic Diversification Canada, there were approximately 395,900 small businesses operating B.C. last year – up three per cent from 2008.

Locally, Vancouver Island showed significant growth in net new small businesses between 2007 and 2009, with an increase of 4.8 per cent, or 3,300 new businesses.

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• B.C. ranks second in Canada for the number of small businesses per capita, with 88.9 businesses per

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• Small business accounts for 32 per cent of B.C.’s gross domestic product, above the Canadian aver-age of 28 per cent.

• For the third straight year, British Columbia’s share of self- employed workers was the highest in the country, accounting for 19.7 per cent of total employment.

• The number of self-employed people in B.C. rose 14 per cent between 2004 and 2009, well above the national average of 10.1 per cent.

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Celebrating small businesson courageous strategic decisions made by ambitious entrepreneurs. Their success is crucial for Canada’s economy and we will have to redouble our efforts to help them carry out their projects.

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