Profile of Elizabeth Howell

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• Neptec targets mining, defence industries with...
  Faced with a slowdown in the space business when the shuttle program ended in 2011, the privately held firm sought new customers. At one time, ...
• Businesses hope to see green in Nuit Blanche
  Nuit Blanche’s response: take the money and invest it in your own businesses, an approach Ms. Hillis was glad to hear. Ottawa’s challenge will be ...
• UPDATE: Ottawa Citizen cutting newsroom jobs,...
  Postmedia is looking to reduce its "print-related infrastructure costs" by cutting jobs in all of its newsrooms while centralizing and expanding ...
• Confederation Building rehab tender opens
  The agency has an anticipated $36.1-million budget to retain "a firm of architects" and a multi-disciplinary team of sub-contractors to address ...
• Ski resorts hope for real estate lift
  At Calabogie Peaks Resort, the company owns 1,500 acres that it amassed in roughly 20 transactions in the 1970s and 1980s, and gradually built on ...
• Offers sought for Lansdowne air rights
  Requests for offers on Merx, a procurement site commonly used by all levels of government, were recently extended to Dec. 5 from Nov. 15 at the ...
• UPDATE: Telesat recap too costly for shareholders: CEO
  The privately owned satellite services provider had mulled going public as early as a year ago, when vice-president Paul Bush to
• Deloitte's daunting duty
  After inviting 20 companies to submit bids, the Treasury Board awarded global accounting firm Deloitte Inc. a $19.8-million contract in ...
• New markets, models beckon Sitebrand, observers say
  The company is bereft of assets after selling its bankrupt subsidiary to Cactus Commerce in February 2011, and has no publicly announced plans ...
• Taking tourism information to the streets
  The Crown corporation is leaving its home at the Capital Infocentre on Metcalfe Street, across from Parliament Hill, and deploying additional ...
• UPDATE: Cactus Commerce bought by U.S. firm
  Cactus, an enterprise marketing company, bought the web personalization and e-mail marketing assets of Sitebrand.com, and its past customers, ...
• Local startup scores 67's as client for pilot
  Mike Matheson plans to target his pitch to small businesses based on metrics for the website so far, although consumer sales have also been ...
• Ericsson’s arrival the end of an era for startup hub
  "We've been in the facility (at 349 Terry Fox Dr.) for eight years," said Steve Cochrane, president of The Corporate Centre Canada, which ...
• UPDATE: 'White knight' for MOSAID unlikely: analyst
  "It may be challenging to find a rival bidder owing to the highly confidential nature of MOSAID's licence agreements," wrote BMO Capital Markets ...
• Hotels turn to associations after renovations
  As larger groups book the new facility, the reputation of Ottawa as a destination will draw the smaller associations to the city - and ...
• Target centre to create labour shortage: Cornwall...
  Target will build a 1.3-million square-foot facility on 169 acres of development-ready land in a business park close to Highway 401. Although ...
• UPDATE: SMART to close Kanata assembly operations
  The firm has been outsourcing part of the work for the past two years and will fully complete the transfer by the end of fiscal 2012, SMART ...
• Sitebrand cease-trade order lifted
  The former online marketing solutions firm, which made the announcement late Tuesday in conjunction with quarterly results, also announced a ...
• City’s use of management consultants plunges
  The city spent just over $2.3 million last year on management consultants in areas such as policy, strategic analysis and organizational design. ...
• Lansdowne challenge dismissed in Ontario Superior Court
  The decision from the court stated the city acted "in good faith" when it awarded the sole-sourced $300-million contract to the Ottawa Sports and ...
• Ashcroft files 'Re' site plans
  The $100-million, 70-room condo and 106-room boutique hotel at Queen and Sparks streets is also expected to include include street-level retail ...
• Capital Hoedown targets bigger venue, audience in...
  The organizing group, Concert International, has signed a new partnership with Empire Sports and Entertainment Group and a number of sponsors, ...
• idoodlesoftware creates virtual Mars colony for...
  The company agreed to supply the Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars program a 3-D educational computer game, based on a version ...
• ‘Just the beginning of an opportunity’
  The challenges are numerous. There are four storeys of building to go through. Asbestos locations are fairly well-catalogued, but sometimes it ...
• Play It Again Sports parent targets two new brands...
  The two new brands are Once Upon A Child, which sells toys and clothing for infants up to preteens, and Plato's Closet, which offers clothing ...
• Reality web series features business planning
  Idea2Delivery will run a multi-episode web series this fall looking at Taste This Deal, a family coupon company that also pledges to give 20 per ...
• Finding the festival financiers
  Along with gaining naming rights to the former Blacksheep stage, it deployed ATMs across the Bluesfest site at Lebreton Flats and installed an ...
• UPDATE: DragonWave revenue nosedives as CEO goes on...
  While the Ottawa network backhaul company has suffered as its chief customer, Clearwire, continues to cut spending to conserve cash, Mr. ...
• Measuring Bluesfest's mass appeal
  During the last five years, 55 per cent of Ottawa's population has attended Bluesfest. This year alone, more than one-fifth of Ottawa households ...
• Suburban hotels pick up downtown surplus
  The 63-room facility, which includes a small meeting space, saw two or three sold-out nights in its first month after opening its doors at Tenth ...