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List Of Companies Based In Ottawa
{{Short description, none This is an alphabetical list of companies that have at one-point or another been based in Ottawa: * Abacus Data * Alterna Savings *Atkinson Film-Arts * Bank of Ottawa * Bell-Northern Research * BreconRidge * Bridgewater Systems * Brookstreet Pictures * Bruised Tongue * Campeau Corporation * Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation * Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation * Canada Post * Canadian Bank Note Company * Canadian Broadcasting Corporation * Canadian Commercial Corporation * Ciel Satellite Group * Cognos * Corel * CPAC (TV channel) * CPCS Transcom Limited * Defence Construction Canada * Doyle Salewski Inc * DragonWave * Ekos Research Associates * ENCON Group Inc. * Epiphan Systems * Eurocom Corporation * Export Development Canada * Farm Boy * First Air * Freimans * Fuel Industries * Funbag Animation Studios * Gabriel Pizza * Gandalf Technologies * Giant Tiger Granite Ottawa* Halogen Software * Hydro Ottawa * Ingenia Communications Corporation * Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abacus Data
Abacus Data is a Canadian polling and market research firm based in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in August 2010,Abacus Data Launches soon after its founder David Coletto graduated from the with a PhD in . The company's surveys and political opinion polls are sometimes cited in Canadian news media, including '''', the |
Cognos
Cognos Incorporated was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries until being acquired by IBM on January 31, 2008. While no longer an independent company, the Cognos name continues to be applied to IBM's line of business intelligence and performance management products. History Cognos was founded in 1969 by Alan Rushforth and Peter Glenister. Michael U. Potter joined Cognos in 1972, and was its Chief Executive Officer from 1975 until 1995. It began as a consulting company for the Canadian federal government and offered its first software product, QUIZ, in 1979. During the Canadian recession in the 1980s, Cognos shifted its focus from consulting to software sales. Originally Quasar Systems Limited, it adopted the Cognos name in 1982. Cognos is a fragment scissored off the Latin word "cogno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Air
Bradley Air Services Limited, operating as First Air, was an airline headquartered in Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.First Air Head Office " First Air. Retrieved on 13 January 2012. "20 Cope Drive Kanata, Ontario Canada, K2M 2V8" It operated services to 34 communities in Nunavut, Nunavik, and the Northwest Territories. First Air has assisted in various humanitarian missions such as the , airlift ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farm Boy
Farm Boy Inc. is a Canadian food retailer operating in the province of Ontario. The company is based in Ottawa, Ontario. The retailer markets itself as selling fresh produce and food products, with an emphasis in their branding on farm-to-table. Its current slogan can be found under the Farm Boy sign on its stores, "It's All About The Food." It was announced in late September 2018 that the company would be acquired by Sobeys' parent, Empire Company Ltd. History In December 1981, Collette and Jean-Louis Bellemare opened the first Farm Boy on Cumberland Street in Cornwall, Ontario. At that time, the modest 300 sq. ft. store sold only produce. The original store was moved in 1984 by Jean-Louis and his brother Normand Bellemare. The move to their 5,000 sq. ft. (460 m2) Sydney Street location allowed them to expand their products beyond produce with dairy, deli, cheese, and meat product lines. An in-store bakery and bulk food were later added. The equity firm Berkshire Partners has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Export Development Canada
Export Development Canada (EDC; french: Exportation et développement Canada) is Canada's export credit agency and a state-owned enterprise wholly owned by the Government of Canada. Its mandate is to support and develop trade between Canada and other countries, and help Canada's competitiveness in the international marketplace. EDC products and services include trade credit insurance, export financing for Canadian companies and for their foreign customers, equity investments, bonding products, international market expertise, as well as information on opportunities in international markets. EDC was founded in 1944. Its corporate headquarters is located in Ottawa, Ontario, and it has 21 regional offices across Canada and permanent representations in 21 cities in 15 foreign markets. History Founding (1944-2017) In 1944, the ''Export Credits Insurance Act'' was proclaimed. Export Credit Insurance Corporation (ECIC) was created following WWII to help stimulate the Canadian economy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurocom Corporation
Eurocom Corporation is a Canadian computer developer of high performance notebooks and laptops. History Eurocom was founded in 1989 as a company designing Desktop replacement computer, desktop replacement notebooks. To achieve this they used CPUs intended for desktop computers in their notebooks. In May 2013 Eurocom began to sell laptops through Future Shop's online retail store. Background Eurocom structures laptop design and building around units that it claims are "highly configurable and easily upgradable." Another Eurocom philosophy is "creating computers that push technology forward" and the company claims to have a series of industry firsts as a result. Eurocom offers a series of specialized computers such as Trusted Platform Module notebooks, and Mobile Servers. Eurocom has been awarded the "Intel Form Factor Solution Innovation Award" In addition to other awards from various publications. References {{reflist, 2 External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epiphan Systems
Epiphan Video, also known as Epiphan, is a privately held audiovisual equipment manufacturer. It is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with offices in Palo Alto and San Jose, California. Epiphan Video markets, develops, manufactures, and supports a line of video capture, streaming, and recording products. Among their products are a family of high-resolution VGA , DVI, and HDMI frame grabbers (some with custom drivers, some UVC-based) and a series of professional AV streaming/recording systems with included video switching technology. Epiphan Video made the world's first high-resolution frame grabbers capable of transferring images over the USB bus with capture rates over 60 frames per second using precompressor technologies for image capture. YouTube lists Epiphan's Pearl-2 amongst its YouTube Live verified encoders. Clients and integrators of Epiphan Video's technologies include the US Armed Forces, Microsoft, IBM, as well as a slate of other high-profile organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DragonWave
DragonWave-X (formerly just DragonWave) is a multinational corporation A multinational company (MNC), also referred to as a multinational enterprise (MNE), a transnational enterprise (TNE), a transnational corporation (TNC), an international corporation or a stateless corporation with subtle but contrasting senses, i ... headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and a global supplier of packet microwave radio systems for mobile and access IP networks. History Incorporated in February 2000, DragonWave introduced its first wireless broadband product in 2002. In 2007, the company saw the launch of its all-outdoor Horizon Compact microwave radio with transport speeds of 800Mbit/s. DragonWave was first listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2007, and then listed on the NASDAQ exchange in 2009. In 2011 DragonWave introduced two products, the Avenue and Horizon Compact+. In October 2017 DragonWave was acquired by Transform-X, and was re-branded DragonWave-X. Products DragonWave design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doyle Salewski Inc
Doyle Salewski Inc. is a Licensed Insolvency Trustee firm specializing in corporate and personal insolvency and is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Personal services include credit counselling, bankruptcy and consumer proposals. Doyle Salewski Inc. also provides corporate insolvency services as a Licensed Insolvency Trustee under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act; monitoring under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act; corporate proposals and bankruptcies; and acting as receiver or receiver and manager. History Doyle Salewski Inc. was co-founded in 1996 by partners Brian Doyle and Paul Salewski, both of whom are chartered professional accountants, chartered insolvency and restructuring practitioners, Licensed Insolvency Trustee, and certified fraud examiners. In 2004, Doyle Salewski Inc. commissioned a study from the Centre for Research on Stress, Coping, and Well-being at Carleton University to improve the quality and style of services being delivered. Threportis title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defence Construction Canada
Defence Construction Canada (DCC; french: Construction de Défense Canada) is a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Canada. DCC was created in 1951 to help build massive defence infrastructure during the Cold War. It was notably involved in building the Distant Early Warning Line, and is now involved in decommissioning it. It also became involved in building Expo 67 and the TransCanada pipeline. Until the 1990s, its services focused on the traditional areas of construction and construction contract management. In the last decade, it has expanded these offerings to include environmental, commissioning and facilities management services. Its only client is the Department of National Defence Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to: Current departments of defence * Department of Defence (Australia) * Department of National Defence (Canada) * Department of Defence (Ireland) * Department of National Defense (Philipp .... External links Defence Construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
