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The co-founder and CEO of health-tech pioneer Fullscript has piloted the Ottawa-based company to a position of dominance in North America’s burgeoning wellness industry.

Kroon Electric Corp. announced last week it has received a “significant growth capital investment” from BDC Capital, the investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada, and a group of investors led by U.S.-based serial entrepreneur George Fechter.

Founded in 2011, Food Cycle Science sells a portable device about the size of a couple of large crock pots that grinds up food waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings, meat, bones, pits and shells and converts it into a dry, odourless fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphate and potassium.

Bill Leonard, the NCC’s vice-president of real estate and development, said new tenant Live Nation Canada’s plan to use the building to host a variety of live events will be the “first step” in a much-anticipated campaign to revitalize Ottawa’s downtown core.

The City of Ottawa has hired a local architect to consult on the “rehabilitation” of the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park.

An interview with Christopher Gillam, vice-president, operations and strategic initiatives, BDC Capital

Catherine Mensour has never worked as an actor, but the local businesswoman sure felt like one when she opened her talent agency in Ottawa nearly 40 years ago.

KRP Properties plans to convert a 10-storey office building near the Brookstreet Hotel into a residential complex...

With a decade of construction ahead in a downtown core struggling to come back to life, business officials are cautiously optimistic they’re equipped to handle whatever comes their way.