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BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
THE WEATHER has been very kind to wine producers in Ontario this summer; they predict that their grapes will be of extremely high quality due to a Canadian heat wave in July and August. The sun shone on the vineyards more than 36 days consecutively, making wine grapes shrivel, becoming sweeter and more concentrated with flavour.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Space Agency-supported satellite ground station has been helping Canadian fire fighters to tackle a spate of large-scale blazes in British Columbia. The

REMSAT unit is driven or flown by helicopter close to a particular fire, establishing a link with satellite cameras, which beam back accurate one-metre resolution images, enabling fire teams to target their work, including the mapping of blaze perimeters.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
The Stevenson-Reisman relationship has been strained for seven years. In 1994, the Federal Competition Bureau gave the go ahead for the Coles-Smithbooks merger that led to the creation of Chapters two years later. Eight months after the Chapters merger was completed Heather Reisman announced that she would enter the ring with US-owned Borders as a partner.…

Alan Osborne
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published a series of good practice case studies from around the continent, in a bid to advise companies how to improve their record in protecting employees from harm.

Called Quality of Work: New Approaches and Strategies in Occupational Safety and Health, the report is available for free and focuses on initiatives in Britain, Spain, Ireland, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN book sector has seen its share of turbulence in the past 12 months. Last summer Larry Stevenson, a young, successful businessman at the helm of Chapters, the country’s largest book retailer, was pondering ways in which to expand the company further.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
Heather Reisman, 52, was the President and CEO of Indigo Books, Music and Cafe, which she launched in 1996.

She had earlier co-founded Paradigm Consulting, a strategic change firm, where she remained managing director for fifteen years. Prior to starting Indigo, she spent two years as president of Canadian soft drinks giant Cott Corporation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
As a young man, Larry Stevenson, now 44, served as a paratrooper in the Royal Canadian Armed Forces in peace-keeping.

He graduated from Harvard in business and formed a venture capital company called Pathfinder 1992, bought Smithbooks 1993 and then Coles 1994, merging them to create Chapters in 1995.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOOSEHEAD Breweries, based in New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada, has legally challenged several US and Canadian brewers, alleging that their branding on brands, such as ‘Moose Drool’ and ‘Moose Juice,’ infringe the company’s trademark rights.

Joel Levesque, spokesperson for Moosehead told Off Licence News that brewers could not resist the popularity of the beast.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN book giant Chapters Inc has announced it plans to buy back all the outstanding shares of its Internet stable-mate Chapters Online. The parent company currently owns 69 per cent of its online operation, and it will offer Chapters Online shareholders one share in the parent company for every 7.14 common shares they hold in the Internet venture.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada
CANADIANS are drinking more and better beer, according to figures published by Statistics Canada, that indicate sales of imported beers have increased their market share by 25 per cent last year, capturing nine per cent of the total market.…