Local Business

A question needed to be answered and it was crucial. I love food, but am not great when it comes to hot spices and so I asked a clerk at HanNam Supermarket in Burnaby last Saturday for some help.

When a fire gutted Shairose Shamji’s Burnaby restaurant, she didn’t let it get her down. Instead, she got cooking.

If Kevin Chaplin had his druthers, his company’s medical device would have been given the green light from European regulators by the tail end of 2018. Nonetheless, with the CE marking in hand as of June 30, the CEO of Burnaby-based Kardium Inc.

The biggest juice company in Burnaby and a food giant has seen its revenues fall off a cliff thanks to COVID-19. Just how big? Well, Freshii Inc. – which operates three locations in Burnaby, including the City of Lougheed - swung to a US$2.

Hi Five Chicken has finished setting up shop at a new location at Hastings and Warwick, just east of Holdom in North Burnaby. The location is just 60 seconds from my old high school and I weep that I didn’t have access to this. But I do now.

These are bleak times for businesses in Burnaby thanks to COVID-19. Retailers are slowly reopening their locations, but that doesn’t necessarily mean shoppers – especially those still out of work – will come back in significant numbers.

Roberta LaQuaglia is talking to me on the phone about how she wants to make an ice cream that is loaded with bits of cookies and I swear I started to feel faint. That’s how I get when I think about ice cream – a little woozy. I love it that much.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left a giant hole for businesses, but one group of Burnaby friends are finding their way through it.

Corporate restricting and filing for creditor protection could end up closing one of the most popular retail outlets in Burnaby’s biggest mall. Aldo, which sells footwear and other goods, has been an institution in Burnaby’s Metropolis at Metrotown.

Toys R Us in Burnaby just lent a helping hand to the Salvation Army. Toys R Us Canada recently delivered more than $60,000 worth of Babies R Us products and food items to 69 different charities across the country.