Local Business

Burnaby pets were a little less pampered this year – but they’re still living the good life, according to Amazon Canada. Today (Oct.

Do you like burgers? Do you like helping kids? Of course you do, and on Friday, Sept. 28, Triple O’s and KidSport are teaming up for the annual KidSport Day fundraiser.

Tickets are on sale for the Burnaby Board of Trade’s annual Burnaby Business Hall of Fame luncheon. The luncheon is on Tuesday, Oct. 2 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown, 6083 McKay Ave.

Burnaby-based Pacific Blue Cross has officially hired a new president and CEO. John Crawford is the new leader of the health benefits provider after nine months as interim president and CEO, according to a press release from Pacific Blue Cross.

One of Burnaby’s most popular fine dining establishments is marking an important milestone this month by offering patrons a special “throwback” menu.

It’s a match made in foodie heaven, and it’s happening right here in Burnaby. The folks over at YVR Prep, a commissary kitchen on Still Creek Avenue, are bringing fresh food to Dageraad Brewing’s tasting room.

Canada’s first “fresh food delivery platform facility” – known as Food-X – is set to open next week in south Burnaby. The 74,000-square-foot mega-warehouse, located south of Marine Way, is being opened by Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery Inc.

Get a slice of this: Toronto-born pizza chain Pizza Pizza quietly opened its first new Metro Vancouver location in New Westminster this summer, and now it has revealed plans for six additional regional locations – including one in Burnaby.

The Burnaby Board of Trade announced that longtime local family business Charlie’s Chocolate Factory will be this year’s inductee into the prestigious Burnaby Business Hall of Fame .

Doteasy, a Burnaby-based web-hosting company, is presenting two recent graduates with scholarships for post-secondary studies later this week.