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[amor de cosmos]

I mean companies like AbeBooks (before they sold out to Amazon). That would be companies like:
- Viberg (workboots)
- Greggs (custom furniture)
- Sarpino's (pizza/pasta)
- Carmanah (alternative energy)
- Lighthouse, Phillips, Vancouver Island Brewery (umm... beer?)

Splashes & Landsdowne Appliances haven't been wiped out by Trail yet, so maybe they could make it beyond Victoria also. I don't know why Splashes doesn't move their store to a bigger building though, so they don't have to store their stock in an outdoor yard across the street. That doesn't make any sense at all. What are some other ones?

[concorde]

Splashes is owned by Andrew Sheret Ltd with about 20-25 locations around BC so they aren't going anywhere.

Andrew Sheret is building a new store in the Western Communities right now and I am not sure if Splashes will be part of that building.

[zoomer]

I mean companies like AbeBooks (before they sold out to Amazon). That would be companies like:
- Viberg (workboots)
- Greggs (custom furniture)
- Sarpino's (pizza/pasta)
- Carmanah (alternative energy)
- Lighthouse, Phillips, Vancouver Island Brewery (umm... beer?)

Splashes & Landsdowne Appliances haven't been wiped out by Trail yet, so maybe they could make it beyond Victoria also. I don't know why Splashes doesn't move their store to a bigger building though, so they don't have to store their stock in an outdoor yard across the street. That doesn't make any sense at all. What are some other ones?

Actually, good call amor - as look what opened up in the former Cookie Guy location on Blanshard beside the Italian Deli:

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[Victoria Watcher]

I mean companies like AbeBooks (before they sold out to Amazon). That would be companies like:
- Viberg (workboots)
- Greggs (custom furniture)
- Sarpino's (pizza/pasta)
- Carmanah (alternative energy)
- Lighthouse, Phillips, Vancouver Island Brewery (umm... beer?)

Splashes & Landsdowne Appliances haven't been wiped out by Trail yet, so maybe they could make it beyond Victoria also. I don't know why Splashes doesn't move their store to a bigger building though, so they don't have to store their stock in an outdoor yard across the street. That doesn't make any sense at all. What are some other ones?

 

Viberg (workboots) - still doing well, moved to bigger spot
- Greggs (custom furniture) - closing
- Sarpino's (pizza/pasta) - stale
- Carmanah (alternative energy) - stillgoing (?)
- Lighthouse, Phillips, Vancouver Island Brewery (umm... beer?) - still going

Splashes & Landsdowne Appliances haven't been wiped out by Trail yet

 

Still going

 

 

 

 

Businesses founded more than 100 years ago:

 

Disney: 101 years

Warner Brothers: 101 years

Gucci: 103 years

AMC Theaters: 104 years

KLM: 105 years

Boeing: 108 years

BMW: 108 years

IBM: 113 years

Mars: 113 years

Chanel: 114 years

Hitachi: 114 years

L'Oréal: 115 years

Xcel Energy: 115 years

GM: 116 years

UPS: 117 years

Kellogg’s: 118 years

Rolex: 119 years

Ford: 121 years

Harley-Davidson: 121 years

Kraft: 121 years

Target: 122 years

Archer Daniels Midland: 122 years

3M: 122 years

Weyerhaeuser: 124 years

Mack Trucks: 124 years

Fiat: 125 years

Equifax: 125 years

PepsiCo: 126 years

Goodyear: 126 years

JM Smucker: 127 years

Becton Dickinson: 127 years

Tootsie Roll 128 years

Hershey: 130 years

Kodak: 132 years

GE: 132 years

Coca-Cola: 132 years

Hormel Foods: 133 years

Merck & Co: 133 years

Emerson Electric: 134 years

McCormick: 135 years

Nintendo: 135 years

Johnson & Johnson: 138 years

Crayola: 139 years

Kroger: 141 years

Exxon Mobil: 142 years

Chevron: 145 years

Eli Lilly: 148 years

Jack Daniel’s: 149 years

Kimberly-Clark: 152 years

JP Morgan: 153 years

Goldman Sachs: 155 years

Campbell’s Soup: 155 years

Tabasco: 156 years

Sherwin-Williams: 158 years

Nokia: 159 years

Heineken: 160 years

S&P Global: 164 years 

Macy’s: 166 years

Church & Dwight: 167 years

General Mills: 168 years

Louis Vuitton: 170 years

Travelers: 171 years

Levi Strauss: 171 years

Steinway: 171 years

Wells Fargo: 172 years

Anheuser Busch: 172 years

Kiehl’s: 173 years

Siemens: 177 years

Stanley Black & Decker: 181 years

Berkshire Hathaway: 185 years

P&G: 187 years

Deere & Co: 187 years

Cadbury: 200 years

Brooks Brothers: 205 years

Peugeot: 214 years

Colgate: 218 years

Jim Beam: 229 years

Birkenstock: 250 years

Guinness: 265 years

Sotheby’s: 280 years

Twinings Tea: 318 years

Barclays: 334 years

Lloyd’s: 335 years

Hudson’s Bay: 354 years

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 September 2024 - 09:35 AM.

[Mike K.]

Viberg no longer makes custom boots that they were known for, for generations.

Vancouver Island Brewery is closing. Phillips is going to brew their beer from now on.

Carmanah is making a good go of it, but I don’t know how large they are relative to their competitors. The company peaked 20 years ago, I think? Maybe? Not sure.

[Victoria Watcher]

2022:

 

 

 

VICTORIA – Vance Street Capital, a Los Angeles based private equity firm, announced it has acquired Carmanah Technologies Corp, a leader in “away from intersection” solar LED pedestrian and traffic safety technology.

 

Carmanah, along with Polara Enterprises, which Vance Street partnered with in December 2021, will together form Vance Street’s traffic and pedestrian safety ITS platform. As part of the platform, Vance Street plans to significantly invest in both Carmanah and Polara’s organic product development initiatives as well as look to complementary M&A in an effort to further support Vision Zero’s movement to eliminate traffic related fatalities through providing a holistic product and technology solution to municipalities and DoTs.

 

Based in Victoria, BC, Carmanah is a leading designer and manufacturer of compliant solar and AC powered systems for pedestrian and traffic safety across North America. Since 1999, Carmanah has been developing innovative, MUTCD-compliant “away from the intersection” safety solutions that offer cost savings while ensuring environmental sensitivities. The Company designs systems for a variety of applications including midblock crosswalks, school zones, traffic-calming and general hazard marking.

 

 

https://businessexam...street-capital/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 September 2024 - 10:21 AM.