Business in Winnipeg - Page 57

rrskylar · #**1121** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 5:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

winnipeg allways gets the short end of the stick due to decisions ottowa makes...

Like deciding to pay the $25 million per year in operating costs to run a soon to be open (2015?, 2016?..) museum no one wants.

Reed Solomon · #**1122** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 6:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

off topic...but did you know RIM spent more $ in R&D than any other Cdn company, including gov't. It's truly sad to see what has happened to them. Off shoring mfg with their low wages and consumers wanting the lowest price is what is killing R&D and MFG in this country.

Making crappy phones with locked bootloaders using an OS with no Apps didn't help them.

Riverman · #**1123** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 6:35 PM**

This story had nothing to do with Ottawa, the company is moving because they can't find qualified people here and they are easy to find in Minneapolis. Read the story.

Riverman · #**1124** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 6:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

Like deciding to pay the $25 million per year in operating costs to run a soon to be open (2015?, 2016?..) museum no one wants.

Can you still get banned here for disparaging the CMHR?

h0twired · #**1125** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 6:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

This story had nothing to do with Ottawa, the company is moving because they can't find qualified people here and they are easy to find in Minneapolis. Read the story.

THANK YOU! I was wonder how many NDP lefties it would take before some sanity finally broke through.

As someone who was out in Calgary doing IT work for almost a decade before returning here for a more technical job, it amazes me how few experienced technical people there are in this city. We always seem to be looking for experienced IT staff and 99% of the resumes we get are fit for the recycling bin.

1ajs · #**1126** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 7:49 PM**

http://www.wcc.mb.ca/news/event%20re...12_FINAL_1.pdf

WINNIPEG CONVENTION CENTRE
UNVEILS DETAILS OF THE EXPANSION
[Winnipeg, MB] November 13, 2012 -- At an event today with partners, industry leaders
and clients the Winnipeg Convention Centre unveiled detailed plans of the $180+million
expansion to the 37-year-old facility.
Architects Terry Cristall, Number TEN Architectural Group and Terry Danelley, LM
Architectural Group presented architectural drawings and building designs that included
details of a 26,000 sq. ft. main floor ballroom; 36,400 sq. ft. main floor public lobby,
concourse and registration area; and additional 69,100 sq. ft. third floor exhibit space that
will connect to the existing building creating a new contiguous 147,100 sq. ft. of exhibition
space that can accommodate over 700 exhibit booths.

rrskylar · #**1127** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Can you still get banned here for disparaging the CMHR?

Not sure, it will be so long before it actually opens that no one bothers to talk about it.

The last session we had here on the CMHR was on how crappy the tower spire looked with it's three shades of glass, you must have missed the memo.

Riverman · #**1128** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 9:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

Not sure, it will be so long before it actually opens that no one bothers to talk about it.

I drove by the fugly POS on Saturday. Luckily there was almost zero visibility so I couldn't see it.

drew · #**1129** Posted **Nov 13, 2012, 9:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

This story had nothing to do with Ottawa, the company is moving because they can't find qualified people here and they are easy to find in Minneapolis. Read the story.

To me, the part of the article that really stands out is this:

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IMRIS’s technology is based on work that was done at the National Research Council’s Institute of Biodiagnostics which is itself in the process of shutting down.

Qualified staff or not (which is interesting considering they found 129 people here qualified already), I think the NRC shutting down is the straw that broke the camels back in this case.

Once the free (or Federally subsidized) research is gone - what is the reason to stay in Winnipeg if most of your operation is in Minneapolis already?

wags_in_the_peg · #**1130** Posted **Nov 14, 2012, 1:51 PM**

good job Feds, good news for Aerospace industry! "Feds give RRC's research arm a $1.7-M boost"

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...179242041.html

Riverman · #**1131** Posted **Nov 14, 2012, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

Qualified staff or not (which is interesting considering they found 129 people here qualified already),

It is easy to find people for a "dynamic" new industry by robbing from other local businesses. The point was that they were having difficulty finding more qualified. people.

Riverman · #**1132** Posted **Nov 14, 2012, 2:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

good job Feds, good news for Aerospace industry! "Feds give RRC's research arm a $1.7-M boost"

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...179242041.html

Don't get me started on this. RRC gets nothing, this is a direct subsidy to industry. RRC merely gets to make the announcement.

wags_in_the_peg · #**1133** Posted **Nov 14, 2012, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Don't get me started on this. RRC gets nothing, this is a direct subsidy to industry. RRC merely gets to make the announcement.

I "may" take you up on that debate.

flatlander · #**1134** Posted **Nov 14, 2012, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by drew

To me, the part of the article that really stands out is this:

Qualified staff or not (which is interesting considering they found 129 people here qualified already), I think the NRC shutting down is the straw that broke the camels back in this case.

Once the free (or Federally subsidized) research is gone - what is the reason to stay in Winnipeg if most of your operation is in Minneapolis already?

Don't forget, the operation started in Winnipeg. It has gradually moved to Minneapolis. Crocus (remember Crocus?) was a big investor. Now there are other big investors with less incentive to operate here (David Graves ugly house on Wellington Cres notwithstanding).

Andy6 · #**1135** Posted **Nov 15, 2012, 1:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by flatlander

Don't forget, the operation started in Winnipeg. It has gradually moved to Minneapolis. Crocus (remember Crocus?) was a big investor. Now there are other big investors with less incentive to operate here (David Graves ugly house on Wellington Cres notwithstanding).

Winnipeg just isn't a place where you'd rationally want to do this kind of work. It's not as though "high tech" is some sort of magical industry that every city on the continent can be a leader in. Like every other industry, it concentrates where it makes sense to concentrate, held back in a few cases only by infusions of government money. Where you would be most likely to get high tech in Winnipeg would be in niche categories that relate to industries that Winnipeg already has, such as agriculture and aerospace. Even then, you still have to be a good place to do business, with low taxes, an appealing lifestyle and excellent higher education. Manitoba is improving on the lifestyle front but gets at most a "C-" or "D" in the other categories.

Jeff · #**1136** Posted **Nov 16, 2012, 11:41 AM**

the sky isn't falling...
as winnipeggers, in our amazingly diversified economy, we actually do not realize how many private companies are hq'd here:

buffalo transport
investors grp.
great-west life
nygard
northwest co.
new flier
artic glacier ice
richardson int'l
kitchen kraft
buhler
ARTIS reit
winpak
boyd group (boyd auto)
lakeview hotels (sheraton 4 points)
wawaneesa insurance
palliser furniture (eq3)
payworks
federated insurance
pollard banknote
san gold
warehouse one
buffalo gal picutres
medicure
cdn. hq. of cabellas
cdn. hq. standard aero
cdn. hq. motorcoach industries
aptn
etc.

special mentions:
cn new training centre
ikea warehouse (largest in canada)

big gov. agencies:
wheat board
mb hydro
revenue canada west
royal cdn mint.
national microbiology lab.
western canada lottery corp.
freshwater fish marketing corp.
etc.

with imris leaving, i'm sure there are extra IT and professional jobs out there to absorb the departure of this company as there are always jobs in these fields advertised.

wags_in_the_peg · #**1137** Posted **Nov 23, 2012, 11:52 AM**

cool stuff from local aerospace company!

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...180566421.html

wags_in_the_peg · #**1138** Posted **Nov 26, 2012, 11:56 AM**

building in Ft Rouge brought back to life...
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...180798451.html

Jeff · #**1139** Posted **Dec 11, 2012, 10:00 AM**

so we lose a local comany to minneapolis (IMRIS).. then a local company (ARTIS) tries to own their highest office tower... push and shove i guess..

"Real Estate Alert, a Hoboken, N.J., commercial real estate investment trade publication, reported Wednesday that Artis has agreed to buy the property for about $260 million. The report, which doesn't name its source, says Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Artis is trying to get the deal complete before the end of 2012."

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincitie...ds-center.html

Marc B. · #**1140** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 10:08 PM**

Another challenging week for the folks where I used to work. Sad demise of a made-in-Manitoba success story:

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More Zywave layoffs

A year ago, 21-year-old Winnipeg financial services software company Emerging Information Systems Inc. (EISI) was sold to a Milwaukee company called Zywave with the claim the Winnipeg shop would remain a centre of excellence for the company.

It may still be, but unconfirmed reports say it has a lot fewer people working there now.

Two different sources said as many as two-thirds of the company's employees were let go this week.

This follows layoffs of about 50 people at the beginning of last year.

When Zywave closed its acquisition of EISI in November 2011 it had about 200 employees in Winnipeg.

The Winnipeg company's financial-planning software, NaviPlan, and needs-analysis tool Profiles are used by more than 250,000 financial professionals. Zywave officials in Milwaukee and Winnipeg would not return phone calls.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...186429141.html