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Everything You Need to Know About Shops

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Canadians like their corner store and they don't mind walking to it. A whopping 92% of all sales happen not online, but in-store.

Sector Spotlight: Hair Salons

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With the Canadian hair care sector performing well, it’s a tempting area to enter. The steady growth recorded in recent years is projected to continue, within a climate of increasing consumer confidence and an encouraging economic outlook.

• How to Run a Bakery

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  Running a bakery in Canada involves plenty of early starts, an appetite for hard work and a sprinkling of determination.

• Sector Spotlight: Delicatessens

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  Running your own deli can be a fantastic business opportunity, provided you adapt to the highly competitive and dynamic food retail industry.

• Sector Spotlight: Pubs

  Sector Guides

  Canadians are drinking at restaurants and at home more than ever before, which means the traditional neighbourhood pub could be a thing of the past. However, there are still many ways for budding publicans to carve out a successful business in the pub industry.

• Sector Spotlight: Garden Centres

  Case Studies

  Canada’s garden centres are to some extent limited by the colder climate and shorter growing season of their region. However, in many instances this has proved a useful incentive to demonstrate how the traditional garden centre model can be extended and diversified.

• Sector Spotlight: Restaurants

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  The restaurant industry is gradually improving year on year with a slow but consistent growth, and it may prove more profitable for owners to specialize or at least find some way of setting themselves apart from the competition.

• Sector Spotlight: Book Stores

  Sector Guides

  Bookstores in Canada continue to fight against a consumer sway towards ordering books online for a cheaper price, as well as favoring e-books and electronic readers. However, there is some confidence in the balance tipping back in favor of hardback and paperback books.

• Sector Spotlight: Liquor Stores 

  Sector Guides

  As income increases and the population grows, the revenues of liquor stores are expected to increase. Revenues for Canadian liquor stores are $24 billion a year, with an annual growth of 3.1% between 2012 and 2017.

• How to Run an Real Estate Agency

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  The real estate market in Canada is strong, but as rising house prices and fat commissions entice more and more entrepreneurs, the sector is becoming crowded.

• How to Buy a Hotel

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  Hoteliers operate in an extremely competitive industry; if you’re not competing with market leaders such as Hilton or Marriott, then you could well be in opposition with a well-priced Airbnb host down the street.

• How to Buy a Pub

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  Owning a pub is often filed under ‘dream jobs’. But even discounting the envy of friends and family and factoring in the hard work involved, it can be very rewarding; professionally and financially.

• How to Run a Gift Shop

  Sector Guides

  If you are running your own gift shop business, you must be feeling pretty good about yourself for lasting this long in the industry.

• Sector Spotlight: Coffee Shops

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  In Canada, as elsewhere in the Western world, coffee remains a vital part of the daily routine for many. Thus, Canadian Coffee Shops are expected to continue to be a regular feature of the consumer experience for the foreseeable future.

• Sector Spotlight: Tanning Salons

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  Despite some adverse criticism of the process, there appears to be a continuing demand for tanning. Though a market where there is controversy demands caution and careful research, it can also present opportunities for those prepared to set up a responsible business which demonstrably puts the interests of consumers to the fore.

• Sector Spotlight: Nightclubs

  Sector Guides

  Declining alcohol consumption and heightened regulation has affected the nightclub industry, but diversifying to attract new customers may be the way forward. With wine bars, specialty cocktail lounges, martini bars or artisanal beer bars, club owners may attract a new demographic to bolster their profits.

• How to Run a Coffee Shop

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  From sourcing distinctive coffee blends to hiring the most qualified barista in town, there are a number of ways you can keep improving your humble coffee shop to stay ahead of the competition.

• How to Buy a Nursery

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  With the shortage of childcare services in Canada, now could be the perfect time for entrepreneurs to buy a nursery, however, it is certainly not a business for the faint-hearted.

• Sector Spotlight: News Agents

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  Readership figures may be in decline, but savvy-minded entrepreneurs are diversifying to keep customers coming through their doors.

• Sector Spotlight: RV Parks

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  In our RV Parks Sector Spotlight we investigate the current market and the opportunities available to new RV park businesses.