http://www.mid.nb.ca/ Moncton information and news en-us Wed, 25 Mar 0909 02:06:54 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/rss NetworkCentrix4.0 webhosting@bristolgroup.ca webhosting@bristolgroup.ca http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=112 Strategic planning, action, and follow-through pay off big in one Canada's highest ranking business destinations.Nothing says success and growth like a consistent steady climb, with little fluctuation. Of course, there is always a degree of fluctuation. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=112 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=114 The original Moncton for Business web site was launched by Moncton Industrial Development (MID) in the Fall of 2000. A great many changes have happened to web technology since then, it's almost night and day. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=114 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=110 Moncton, New Brunswick has long been known as a regional hub of Canada's Maritime Provinces making it an ideal strategic location for business. Its central location allows for fast efficient service throughout the region whether as a distribution centre or sales office or regional offices. It has also become a business centre for national and international operations in call centres and back-offices, companies such as UPS, Purolator, Asurion and Minacs Worldwide operate customer service centres and support centres. Moncton is good for big business. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=110 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=109 The City of Moncton has established a comfortable national brand as a consistently expanding economic growth centre on Canada's east coast.Looking back on Moncton's 2007 economic performance numbers and achievements, illustrates why Moncton has developed this national “growth brand”. This achievement became more evident as the City of Moncton closed off another consecutive year of significant tax base expansion and overall strong economic performance throughout every industry and market sector of the City.Early in the year, the first results from the 2006 census set the tone for the confident mood for this growing city of 126,000 plus, as it officially became NB's largest urban area (as one of Canada's newest Census Metropolitan Area designations).January 2007 published news reports highlighted an analysis of the 2006 census data by Canadian Demographics 2007 - the Financial Post's 80th annual demographics guide to almost all market areas in the country, which suggested that the City of Moncton was on the rise over other metro areas in New Brunswick. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=109 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=107 Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down. That is never more true than when it comes to rankings. Canadian Business Magazine has issued its annual rankings of the best Canadian cities for business. In the past Moncton has been ranked as high as #1 but for the past couple of years it had slipped out of the top ten. Of course, from our vantage point we never did slip as we always consider Moncton a great place for business. Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=107 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=105 It's been 52 years in the making but now Molson's have officially opened their new Moncton brewery. Well it didn't take 52 years to actually build the brewery but it has been 52 years since Canadian brewing icon Molson opened its last new brewery. Moncton, NB situated at the geographic centre of Canada's Maritime Provinces, is an ideal business location for serving this region and Molson is taking full advantage of that location. It also makes sense for potential new opportunities to use the plant's production capacity for export to the New England market but that's something for the company to decide somewhere down the road. Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=105 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=104 Excerpt from Moncton Times & Transcript, May 21, 2007 by Aloma Jardine:Metro Moncton's industrial parks don't have as much flash as the city's main streets, they don't have the draw of a Champlain Place or a Wheeler Park Power Centre, and most local residents would likely be hard pressed to name more than a few of the businesses that call them home. Tue, 22 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=104 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=102 Build it and they will come? Not necessarily, but if you aren't ready to seize the opportunities, they will pass you by. When it comes to industrial parks that means having sites ready to capture the opportunities when they arise. That's why Moncton Industrial Development (MID) builds it - so they can come. Building it meant a major $15 million investment in the infrastructure of Caledonia Industrial Estates in 1993/95. That investment involved building new streets and services within the industrial park along with a new interchange access onto the Trans Canada Highway. The result added some 230 acres to the available inventory of lots.Building it meant building the new Harrisville Blvd. in 1997 to better connect the park to residential areas, to the airport and to the downtown. Thu, 10 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=102 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=99 Every once in awhile Moncton's “can do” community attitude reputation spawns an entirely surprising business concept that further re-enforces the self-fulfilling prophecy that anything you can think of, can be done from here.Spawning an internationally recognized professional ballet troupe from Moncton is not the first thing that would come to mind, but as 2006 came to an end, a leading building developer announced that the principal anchor tenant of the renovated and modernized former YMCA building at 68 Highfield Street, would be one of Moncton's quietest and most surprising success growth stories, the Atlantic Ballet Theater of Canada.In 2007, the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada will be the anchor tenant in a 26,000 square foot three story mixed used building in Moncton's downtown, that once housed the YMCA, which has now moved into a modern new building. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=99 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=98 Everything that city leaders could hope for kept happening throughout the year as overall economic health indicators continued to post up trending numbers.Monctonians enjoyed a steady upbeat business climate, which was paced by announcements of business expansions and visible signs of new infrastructure construction in most areas of the city. Leading the “upbeat” numbers for economic performance was the value of building permits issued by the City of Moncton, for 2006. The total value of building permits issued in 2006 at $141,400,000, exceeded 2005 by nearly 5 percent ($134.9 million in 2005). This total represents the second best year ever for the City of Moncton. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=98 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=94 Increasingly Moncton is seen as not only a commercial service and distribution hub, but is developing a strong concentration of hospitality and matching retail centres to create Moncton, as the visitor shopping destination centre in the Maritimes. In 2005, a series of projects and announced accommodation projects for new hotels and motels concentrated in two significant growth areas in retail around the Mapleton Road-Wheeler Blvd area, and for meeting visitor attractions the downtown core, moved onto centre stage for Moncton. Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=94 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=92 Anyone living in the City of Moncton, during 2005, was constantly reminded of the steady growth in Moncton's economic momentum during the year. A steady roll out of economic development announcements for the City was generated from several different sectors of the local economy and all combined to create a momentum of continuing growth. Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=92 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=93 For the business community of Moncton, in 2005 the provincial government's announced spending and investment priorities got the year off to a strong start with Premier Bernard Lord pledging that a satellite heart catheterization lab will be added to the City of Moncton's hospital infrastructure, following the completion of two other installations in the Province, in 2006. Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=93 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=88 "Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce any thing; … A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it" (Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776 p.28) The state of drinking water quality in Moncton during 2005, was a continuation of the progress the City of Moncton has made since 1999, when it launched one of Canada's most comprehensive water treatment facilities. Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=88 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=89 Water quality, in terms of it's reliable supply for delivery and consistent content for consumption in meeting stringent national water quality standards is a serious business requiring vigilance and continuing investment. Both of which the City of Moncton are doing in a year by year meticulous manner. Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=89 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=90 • The tri-communities primary water supply comes from Turtle Creek, a surface water supply, located southwest of Moncton in Albert County. • Water from the Turtle Creek Reservoir is pumped to the Moncton Water Treatment Plant (WTP), which has a top elevation of 79.3 meters (260 feet). Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=90 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=91 Water from the Turtle Creek Reservoir passes through the plant, removing turbidity and color, iron and manganese and is adjusted chemically so as to be less corrosive to metallic pipes. The first stage of the process is to add lime and alum to the raw water. Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=91 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=86 Canada is still the cheapest place to do business among G7 countries, even though the rising dollar has eroded some of its advantage over the United States, a KPMG study has found.In 2006, the cost of setting up and running a business in Canada for 10 years is 5.5-per-cent lower than in the U.S., the report says, thanks to lower wages, electricity and facility costs. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=86 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=84 First bottles expected to roll off the line in January, 2007MONCTON, NB - Tuesday, August 16 marked a new chapter in brewing history as Molson Canada President and CEO Kevin Boyce, along with New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord and Moncton Mayor Lorne Mitton, broke ground on Molson's new Moncton brewery. Bringing a sense of history to the occasion, Molson Brewery founder John Molson's great-great-great-great-grandson, Geoff Molson, also took part in the ground breaking for his company's first new Canadian brewery in 50 years. Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=84 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=82 World's #1 Rock & Roll band rocks Canada's #1 City for Business!Moncton, New Brunswick Saturday, September 3, 2005 Throughout much of the city on Saturday afternoon, it was very quiet, almost like a ghost town. But on the Hill, it was rocking as the #1 city in Canada for business became the #1 city for rock and roll. Moncton, New Brunswick hit the heights last December when Canadian Business Magazine ranked Moncton as the #1 place for business in Canada. Now, we say the #1 city for business rocks. Yes, Moncton rocks and as the star attraction, the biggest rock and roll band in the world hit the stage in Moncton. The Rolling Stones brought their high energy and legendary performance to Moncton, New Brunswick. Wed, 11 May 2005 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=82 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=80 Moncton, New Brunswick and Caledonia Industrial Estates situated at the centre of Canada's Maritime provinces, just keep on growing. A lot has been happening in Caledonia over the past four years with new projects and expansion of the park itself. Topping the list in 2005 was the groundbreaking for the Molson brewery, their first new brewery in over 50 years. Fri, 11 Feb 2005 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=80 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=78 Canadian Business Magazine has selected Moncton, New Brunswick as their choice for Top Canadian City for business. Such recognition shows that Moncton has indeed come a long way from the “dark days” of the mid 1980's when its largest employer Canadian National began closing out various operations in this city. Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=78 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=76 Moncton, New Brunswick, November 8, 2004 - Molson Inc. announced that it will build a $35 million brewery in Moncton, New Brunswick by January 2007. “This announcement is another demonstration of Molson's commitment to the Maritimes,” said Daniel J. O'Neill, Molson's President and CEO. “Molson currently employs over 125 people in the Atlantic region. The new facility will bring the total to a minimum of 160, the first year of operations, and make Molson a business and community partner in the Maritimes. New Brunswick's vibrant atmosphere as well as its strong business environment made it a partner of choice.” Tue, 09 Nov 2004 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=76 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=74 It seems like only yesterday, that Moncton Industrial Development (MID) undertook a major $15 million expansion of Caledonia Industrial Estates. That expansion which began with the launch of the first phase in late 1993, saw the construction of new streets and services within the industrial park along with a new interchange access onto the Trans Canada Highway.Ten years later, due to the success of the park, once again the shovels and trucks were brought in to build the new streets and underground services to allow us to add new serviced lots to the MID inventory. Mon, 19 Apr 2004 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=74 http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=68 Two major new construction announcements and a major building expansion dominated the good news for growth during 2003, in Caledonia Industrial Estates (CIE). CIE was significantly expanded in size in the mid 90's by Moncton Industrial Development (MID), Moncton's municipal industrial development agency. Since its re-opening demand for serviced lots has been building and in 2003 contributed to MID's best year of announced developments and land sales in the history of the agency. Wed, 07 Jan 2004 04:00:00 GMT http://www.mid.nb.ca/english/business/article_detail.cfm?id=68