S p e c i a l F e a t u r e
C I T Y O F B U R N A B Y
FIRST
WITH CLIENTS!
For almost 30 years,
Brown Crawshaw Inc.
has been an enthusiastic
partner with the City of
Burnaby. Through the
day-to-day operation of
the Employee Assistance
Program to the delivery
of critical incident/trauma
services, BCI has been
signicantly involved
in the personal lives of
numerous employees of
the City and members of
their families.
Since moving our main
ofce to Burnaby in 2015,
we know rsthand how
wonderful it is to work,
live, and play in Burnaby.
Congratulations
Burnaby!
F
rom movies to alternative enery,
there is seemingly no limit to the
scope and volume of Burnaby's
businesses. Although a description
of the types of businesses could
ll a book, the City of Burnaby
and the Burnaby Board of Trade
(
BBOT) have identied four key sectors:
information technoloy/communications/
wireless; biotechnoloy/health/life
sciences; lm/digital entertainment/new
media; alternative enery/environmental
technoloy/services.
Burnaby also has clusters in stable
industrial sectors such as light industry/
warehousing/distribution (Garibaldi Glass,
Grand & Toy, Haida Forest Products,
Suputo-Dairyworld, Weiser), heavy
industry (Chevron, Esso, Shell, Kinder
Morgan, Petro Canada), agriculture
(ProOrganics, United Flower Growers) and
social integration/not-for-prots (United
Way of the Lower Mainland).
The biographies of the companies
associated with the four sectors dened by
the
BBOT are noteworthy, to say the least.
For example,
TELUS is Canada's fastest-
growing national telecommunications
rm, with annual revenues of $11.8 billion.
IBM, another Burnaby resident, has been
operating in B.C. since 1914 and employs
over 850 people in the province.
Burnaby businesses lay claim to a lot
of rsts, case in point: DšWave Systems
is the world's rst commercial quantum
computing company; its mission is to
integrate new discoveries in physics,
engineering, manufacturing and computer
science into breakthrough approaches to
computation, in order to solve some of the
most challenging technical, commercial,
scientic and national defense problems.
In the biotechnoloy/health/life
sciences realm, scientists at Amgen's
Canadian research facility in Burnaby
apply traditional disciplines of chemistry,
Prime Location
The various sectors that are œourishing in
Burnaby's business community prove that
this city is the perfect place for a company
to call home
The Burnaby Board of Trade's
Pledge for a Sustainable
Community helps companies
reduce their carbon footprint and
achieve their business
objectives at the same time
