The Surrey Board of Trade, the City of Surrey and Metro Vancouver are inviting interested businesses to participate in the Climate Smart Training Program and join a group of progressive businesses that are cutting costs by cutting carbon.
Through funding by Metro Vancouver and the City of Surrey, we are able to show businesses how they can save money by focusing on the environment. Climate Smart will provide hands-on training to small and medium-sized businesses, taking enterprises through the process of creating a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, and developing effective reduction strategies with a focus on cost savings and brand lift. It is designed to train key staff and provide businesses with the tools to become more competitive in an era of carbon regulation and volatile energy prices.
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On Wednesday, March 10, 2010, the Surrey Board of Trade hosted the inaugural Surrey Women in Business Awards Luncheon. This event recognized the hard work of Surrey’s businesswomen and their contributions to the community.
Photo: (L-R) Joanne Curry, Susan Robinson, Yvonne Hogenes
Master of Ceremonies, Steve Darling of Global TV, kept the program moving, and expressed the importance of the hard work and determination of women in Surrey’s business community. Statistics show that nearly half of all Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises have at least one female owner, and that since 1997, on average, women have started small- and medium-sized businesses at twice the rate of men. Small businesses are the most important component of BC’s economy, with companies with fewer than 50 employees representing 98 per cent of all businesses in British Columbia and creating over one million jobs. Moreover, almost 36 per cent of BC’s small business owners are women. That is quite the market!
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 The 4th Budget from the Harper Government has laid out solid plan which will stay the course in the short run with respect to stimulus, $19 million, while moving into a recovery mode, a sustainable economy and a balanced budget by 2016.
The Surrey Board of Trade supports the government’s plan which calls for a combination of incentives for growth through innovation, and research and development, combined with economies derived from reduced spending in some areas, frozen budgets in others, and appropriate departmental reductions including National Defense, Foreign-aid and others.
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