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How Can Staffing Agencies Manage Labor Shortage?

July 13, 2022

It is becoming increasingly difficult for staffing agencies to meet the demands of clients by finding top talent. Many companies are having difficulty filling their staffing needs despite a slight…

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Health and Wellness – What’s Driving the Feel Good Factor?

June 22, 2022

If there was anything good to come out of the last couple of years, maybe it’s that people are prioritizing their health and wellness over anything else. Those that were…

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Pet Industry on a ‘Pawsitive’ Streak

June 9, 2022

Pets became priority again during the pandemic with owners forced to stay home to work and fill the void created by isolation with a furry friend instead. 18% of Canadian…

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Harnessing Growth Opportunities in the Beauty Industry

June 1, 2022

The beauty industry is big business and it’s getting even bigger. Globally, sales reached $511B in 2021 and are estimated to exceed $716B by 2025 with North America taking the…

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Financing Business Through Interest Rate Risk

May 12, 2022

Financing Business Through Interest Rate Risk Just a few short months back business owners were earnestly trying to come back from Omicron and wondering whether they would be facing another…

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Top 10 Ways to Improve Performance in Food and Beverage Manufacturing

May 4, 2022

There’s no doubt, being in the food and beverage manufacturing industry at this point in time is tough. It was never an industry for the faint-hearted, competing with established big…

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Canadian Business and The 2022 Federal Budget – Key Takeaways

April 12, 2022

It’s fair to say small businesses didn’t feature massively in the Canadian 2022 Federal Budget proposed last week. Although there were a handful of measures aimed solely at business, much…

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Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) – Bad for Business?

March 28, 2022

Both new and established businesses can suffer from cash flow problems occasionally and need to access funding to help them through those times when monthly expenses outweigh cash-on-hand. Securing small…

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Print Industry Pushed To Limits

March 16, 2022

In many industries stock constraints have begun to ease over recent weeks. Fears over virus cases and transmission seem finally to be dissipating and although the reasons behind empty shelves…

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Apparel Purchase Order Financing – Perfectly Coordinated Funding

March 8, 2022

The apparel industry has many nuances, cash flow constraints being one of the most significant and challenging. Long delays between placing an order and having it delivered to the end…

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Are Small Business Loans Hard to Get?

February 16, 2022

Small business loans have been the primary source of external financing for businesses and entrepreneurs for hundreds of years and banks still constitute around 70 percent of all lending supplied…

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Can You Get a Business Loan with Bad Credit?

February 3, 2022

Good credit management is one of those things that you only value when you really need it. When it comes to securing finance to grow a business, getting a small…

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Interest Rates and Business – Weathering the Storm

January 19, 2022

After almost a year of debate on ‘will-it-or-won’t it’ be transitory inflation, it’s clear that price increases are now far stickier than anyone would like and they’re not simply disappearing…

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2021 Year-End Financial Checklist for Small Business

December 9, 2021

Business owners are busy all year round but as the holiday season approaches, things reach a new level of hectic. As everyone looks forward to some well-deserved time off, focus…

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New Year, New Risks for Small Business

December 1, 2021

As the world faces the news of a new strain of the COVID-19 pandemic and a potential fourth ‘wave’ of infection to top off 2021, what will this mean for…

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