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COVER-2009

Welcome to the Stoney Creek Chamber

Welcome to the new Stoney Creek Chamber of Commerce website.  The site has a searchable database of members, online reservations for our events, news on the front page to keep you up-to-date, links that are important to businesses, and a listing of the benefits of membership. Keep up to date, visit often!

Mission Statement

The object of the Stoney Creek Chamber of Commerce shall be to promote and improve trade and commerce and the economic, civic and social welfare of the Stoney Creek Community.


The Chamber Update

Great Day for Golf!
written by Dave Cage

It was a perfect day for our June 4th Annual Golf Tournament.  The beautiful weather helped to make a traditionally fun day for our Members even better.  We all enjoyed the sunshine great food and time we spent together. 

Our thanks to Stoney Creek Furniture for sponsoring this event each year.

We also thank the friendly and helpful staff of Southbrook Golf and Country Club for always making us feel welcomed.

For those of you who couldn't join us this year, not to worry, we'll do our best to order up a perfect day for next year too.

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Congratulations Citizen of the Year Recipients for 2008
written by Dave Cage

The Grand Event was a great success with over 170 people in attendance to honour Stoney Creek's finest. 

Congratulations again to our receipents and thank you to our Sponsors!

Citizen of the Year

Tony Holubeshen

Sponsored by Donald V. Brown Funeral Home

 

Jr. Citizen of the Year

Lisa Bifano

Sponsored by Stoney Creek News

& Lions Club of Stoney Creek

 

Corporate Citizen

Assante Wealth Management

Patrica Legato

Sponsored by Taylor Steel Inc.

 

Legacy Award

Village Restaurant

Sponsored by Brownlow Partners

Chartered Accountants

 

Outstanding Business

TMF The Meat Factory

Sponsored by DJB & Company Chartered Accountants

 

Special thanks to the staff of Galileo's Garden in Stoney Creek for providing a perfect venue and excellent food!

Top Ten Ways to Build a Strong Brand
written by Dave Cage

Once again, we had great attendance at our breakfast seminar on March 5th at the Express Restaurant. The event was sponsored by Pillar Retirement Group and featured Dr. Ajay Sirsi, Professor of Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University.

 

Dr. Sirsi took the audience through his Top 10 Ways to Build a Strong Brand which he explained by using examples of successful brands Nike, Harley Davidson, BMW and others.

 

In summary, his Top 10 list included;

 

1. The brand understands customers’ needs.

2. The brand knows people buy expectations, not things.

3. The brand understands what business it is in.

4. The brand is properly positioned.

5. The brand goes way beyond building brand awareness.

6. The brand focuses on the total customer experience.

7. The brand controls the customer experience.

8. The brand stays relevant.

9. The brand stays consistent.

10. The brand builds a community.  

 

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Peter Hall, VP and Chief Economist, EDC
written by Dave Cage

Peter Hall

 Hamilton has yet to experience the full destructive power of the current economic crisis, says a noted economist.

“It’s bad,” said Peter Hall, vice president and chief economist of Export Development Canada. “There is still bad news ahead of us. I don’t know if (Hamilton) can dodge the bullet.”

Mr. Hall spoke to a joint Stoney Creek  and Hamilton Chambers of Commerce lunch event at Stoney Creek’s Grand Olympia Hospitality and Convention Centre a day before Statistics Canada revealed further dire economic news.

Canada had shed about 127,000 jobs in January, with Hamilton’s unemployment rate jumping to 8 per cent. A year ago the unemployment rate for the city was 5.6 per cent. Hamilton shares the fifth highest unemployment rate among major Canadian cities.

Mr. Hall said the North American economies have experienced the collapsed of the housing marketing, and financial institutions have gone bankrupted or on the verge of insolvency.

But the third wave of this economic tsunami, he called it, has yet to hit both economies – massive job losses, which he said are inevitable.

“This is not hyperbole,” he said. “These are unprecedent times. It is not entirely inappropriate to refer to the Great Depression.”

People, he said, should brace themselves for further economic impacts, especially higher unemployment figures. Last week residents received a taste of how difficult the economic crisis will be to solve.

“We have not seen the unemployment curve yet,” he said. “It’s still bad news ahead of us. That will translate into poor performances in the financial markets.”

He said as more people lose their jobs, there will be more defaults on debt, which will send banks and other financial institutions into a spiral of further balance sheet losses.

Ontario lost about 71,000 jobs in January, more than the rest of the country combined, and now has an 8 per cent unemployment rate. Among those jobs lost were 36,000 in the manufacturing sector. Since 2005 there have been 272,600 manufacturing jobs gone in the province.

Mr. Hall, speaking to reporters after his presentation to about 120 people, said the federal and provincial infrastructure funding will be “critical” to holding off the effects of the economic downturn. But even with the stimulus packages offered by the American and Canadian governments, Mr. Hall is still forecasting limited growth in 2009. It won’t be until the middle of 2010 when the economies will start to revive, he said. Mr. Hall predicts the housing industry will be the first to turn around.

 

 

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Upcoming Events 2009
written by Dave Cage

July 13th - Mustangs Big Ol' Grill

Networking, Food, Prizes

Wine Tasting

5:30 - 7:30 pm

RSVP by July 9th

 

Santa Golf Tournament
written by Dave Cage

August 14th - Southbrook

to register, donate prizes

or help organize

 contact Ed

906-662-4971 ex 27

 

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