Retail

Bridgehead posts slight Q1 profit as wholesale, e-commerce sales surge

Coffee chain’s wholesale revenues are up 106 per cent so far in 2021 compared with a year ago, and company says it expects to quadruple its pre-pandemic online sales totals this year.

‘Staying true to our customers’: Giant Tiger still a ferocious retail force at age 60

Iconic Ottawa chain has never forgotten where it came from even as it's grown into a nationwide discount retail leader with 259 stores and more than 10,000 employees.

Bridgehead sales down 30% in 2020, parent company says

Ottawa-based coffee chain says it's still going ahead with its planned new location at Carleton University this fall.

Boom cycle: Ottawa bike shops can’t keep up with pandemic-fuelled sales surge

Cycling retailers are being run off their feet as cooped-up consumers look for healthy, safe activities to get them out of the house.

Business visionaries: Algonquin students’ ski goggle retail site gaining on competition

Startup has already landed a deal with one of the city’s best-known sports retailers as it seeks to cash in on a surge in outdoor activities during the pandemic.

Cross-country ski craze brings business boost during pandemic

Ottawa sporting retailers work to keep up with demand for ski equipment as public looks to escape to the outdoors

Ottawa malls banking on motivated shoppers to drive holiday sales

While Santa might not be coming to their properties and surveys suggest Canadians aren't in a spending mood, several local mall managers are seeing signs of hope amid the gloom.

Bridgehead presses pause on T.O. expansion plans as in-store sales plummet during pandemic

Ottawa coffee retailer is still going ahead with plans to unveil its first kiosk inside a Farm Boy store later this month at the grocer’s Train Yards location.

ByWard Market fashion retailer Mandy Gosewich on riding the COVID coaster

STUNNING! Fashion + Accessories shop buoyed by e-commerce sales, customer loyalty and decision to pivot toward more comfy-cozy clothing trends

‘It’s the right time’: Ottawa retail pioneer Gordon Reid steps down as CEO of Giant Tiger

Longtime company executive Paul Wood takes over as head of the national discount chain effective immediately.
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