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October 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year

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octoBer 2015 BCBusiness 5 35 oc tober 2015 contents v o l u m e 4 3 n u m b e r 1 0 Entrepreneur of the Year the 22nd annual eY entrepreneur of the Year awards sees three new categories–and several fascinating stories of risk-taking and reward–added to the mix. Plus a lifetime achievement award for the Louie family by Brenda Bouw, Melissa Edwards, Dee Hon, Trevor Melanson, Matt O'Grady, Jacob Parry and Felicity Stone The Other Real Estate Boom increasingly, businesses are real- izing the value of locating closer to where their employees are. And that's leading to an unprece- dented level of office construc- tion in downtown vancouver by Richard Littlemore "Ours is a business of informa- tion–of the exchange of ideas and strategies. We need to know what's happening. We want people talking all the time, and not just in structured meetings" –p.64 64 Raising a glass (Above) Charles Tremewen from Vancouver's Long Table Distillery; (left) EOY Pacific Region winner and Oppenheimer CEO John Anderson upwaRd and onwaRd CBRE's new digs in the MNP Tower vertically integrate space on four floors 72 Glass Half Full New rules governing liquor in B.c. have led to a boom in the number of licensed distilleries. But if the good times are to continue, much more needs to be done Text by Nikki Bayley / Photos by Nik West cover: PAUL JoSePH; tHiS PAge: (toP Left) ADAM BLASBerg; (toP rigHt) NiK WeSt; (BottoM) PAUL JoSePH

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