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By: Carole Long 

Super Charged

Written By: Davis Mullner 

Over the past couple of weeks, the Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre partnered with food consultancy ‘The Greater Goods’ to host a series of workshops focused on food manufacturing. The Greater Goods are a food industry consultancy that aims to help food businesses increase their profits by reducing their ingredient and packaging costs as well as increase their sales. Their areas of expertise are food brokerage and distribution, market opportunity assessment, food product development, branding and packaging, optimizing sourcing and manufacturing and launch strategies. Three workshops were held, and topics included: Product labelling, scaling up your food business and exporting.

Small Businesses are Taking Tech Automation into Their Own Hands with the No Code Movement, Are You?

Our 5th Youth Effect cohort has come to an end! This winter we had 9 companies complete the program in Northwestern Ontario. This cohort was different than past years due to COVID-19 but everyone adjusted to the changing times with the program being run virtually.