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Ampersand Distilling Co. uses traditional distilling techniques and organic farming to produce handcrafted small-batch spirits.
3D renderings, conceptual planning and permit drawings
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Full-service construction
Congratulations to the 2020 Winners of Douglas magazine’s 10 to Watch Awards!
AMPERSAND DISTILLING CO., a small-batch distillery in the Cowichan, was recognized as the best in its class at the 2020 World Vodka Awards. The competition awards and promotes the world’s best vodka to consumers and trade across the globe. Ampersand’s Per Se Vodka was not only the Canadian winner in Varietal Vodka but also voted as the World’s Best Varietal Vodka. Ampersand started 2020 off with wins at the World Gin Awards and the Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition as well. JIM PATTISON, chair and CEO of the Jim Pattison Group, is the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business’ 2020 Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year (DEYA). Pattison, who receives his award on May 27 at the DEYA gala at Victoria Conference Centre, purchased a General Motors dealership in 1961 by borrowing $40,000 from the Royal Bank and putting up his home and life insurance policy as collateral. That launched the Jim Pattison Group, now Canada’s second-largest privately held company with 46,000 employees worldwide, annual sales of $10.6 billion and involvement in food services, manufacturing, communications and more.
REDBRICK has acquired Minneapolis-based Leadpages, a marketing-focused, no-code website builder enabling businesses to create websites with a focus on generating leads and transforming clicks into customers. The acquisition brings Redbrick’s annual revenue run rate to $80M CAD in 2020. CHECKFRONT, a booking management platform for travel experiences, has announced the closing of a $9.3M Series A investment round. Based in Victoria, Checkfront is the largest independent global booking platform, with more than 5,000 customers in over 120 countries and $5.5B in online bookings processed. An international research project led by OCEAN NETWORKS CANADA (ONC), a UVic initiative, is one of the highest-scoring proposals in the prestigious 100&Change competition by the MacArthur Foundation to help solve climate change. The Solid Carbon project brings together researchers from Canada and the U.S. with the aim to turn greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) into rock by permanently injecting it beneath the Earth’s ocean floor.
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