David Sali

Dave is OBJ's senior features writer with two decades of experience in the newspaper industry working for a variety of publications from community weeklies to major dailies. He is a four-time award-winning journalist by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP). He has received awards for best news feature, best scoop and best overall writer among medium-sized business publications.

C-COM rides ‘significant’ rise in U.S., Asian sales to 27% bump in 2022 revenues

Ottawa firm generated revenues of $11.6 million in the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 2022, a 27 per cent increase from fiscal 2021. 

Brewed awakening: Bridgehead’s sales rise 20% in fourth quarter

In financial filings released Monday, parent company Aegis Brands said Ottawa-based coffee retailer posted revenues of $4.05 million for the three-month period ending Dec. 25, 2022, up from $3.38 million the previous year.

Ottawa hotel occupancy rose more than 50% in 2022, report says

Curtis Gallagher, who leads Avison Young’s hospitality business for Canada, said while a local recovery is “underway,” Ottawa’s return to pre-pandemic occupancy levels “may be a little bit slower-paced than some of the other markets” the firm surveyed.

‘I have products, I have market’: Versaterm CEO bullish as firm’s acquisition spree continues

Ottawa company that makes software that helps police forces, fire departments and other public safety agencies manage their operations announced Thursday it reached an agreement to acquire fellow software firm CI Technologies.

Toronto’s Nexus Industrial REIT acquires new Ford distribution centre in Casselman for $117M

Located just south of Hwy. 417 about 56 kilometres southeast of Ottawa, the facility is slated to open this spring and will serve as a parts distribution warehouse for Ford Motor Co., which has a 15-year lease on the property.

Trellis’s e-commerce merchandising platform shines on big stage in Vegas

Ottawa-based software firm -- which now serves about 300 merchants who sell their wares on Amazon and Walmart’s e-commerce sites -- made a big splash this week at the Prosper Show on Sin City's famous strip.

Ottawa Airport plans to terminate operating licence for ground-services provider to Flair, Sunwing

In a news release on Wednesday, the airport authority said that in recent weeks it has “observed a degradation of service levels associated with ground-handling activities” provided to Flair and Sunwing by U.K.-based firm Menzies Aviation.

Ottawa-Gatineau’s annual rate of housing starts up 725% in February: CMHC

Ottawa-Gatineau’s annual pace of housing starts jumped a whopping 725 per cent in February, the Canada Mortgage...

Familiar government buildings in downtown core would be better off demolished, industry insiders say

Building owners, property managers and other Ottawa commercial real estate insiders itching to get a sense of which assets the federal government plans to offload from its downtown office portfolio in the wake of COVID-19 will have to wait a little longer.

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