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Business exit plans: How to structure a sale to co-owners, family members or key employees

It is imperative that your exit plan works to minimize the tax consequences to the business and to the buyer

Making businesses better: KPMG dedicated to working with private businesses

From startup companies, owner-managed businesses to multinational public enterprises, KPMG can efficiently and effectively respond to clients’ complex business challenges.

Ottawa needs to better promote itself on world stage, city summit told

“You have great neighbourhoods, but nobody knows,” marketing guru says during presentation at online conference Friday.

How rethinking employee benefits gives employers an edge in the war for top talent

A growing number of employers are seeing first-hand how modernizing their employee benefits package strengthens their ability to recruit and retain skilled staff.

New city bylaw to limit short-term rentals to 10 guests

Change is part of new rules aimed at more tightly regulating properties rented out on Airbnb and similar platforms.

Finding creativity in a crisis

Even before COVID-19 hit, Nelligan Law was undertaking a significant modernization effort, injecting business management best practices not always found at more traditional law firms.  

The Bright Side of Business: Centretown salon owner Gamal Rahman combines hairstyling with love for art

Owner of the Connoisseur Art and Hair Studio offers free lessons to community amid pandemic downturn

Committee green-lights plan to seek public feedback on small biz tax cut

The change would cut property taxes by 10 per cent at about 4,700 commercial properties housing nearly 8,000 small businesses in Ottawa.

Podcast: Shopify’s C-suite shakeup, hot cottage market and ‘turning dirty air into dollars’

Listen on Spotify or Soundcloud, or watch the video on OBJ's YouTube channel.

Ottawa businesswomen take bite out of pandemic with major expansion of Corner Peach

Emma Campbell and Caroline Murphy turn popular Somerset Street West restaurant into thriving food store during COVID-19 crisis
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