Calgary pushes past Vancouver
Jul 29th 2008, 3:28 am
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Calgary pushes past Vancouver
Article in today's Calgary Herald written by Don Cayo a columnist with the Vancouver Sun.
http://digital.calgaryherald.com/epa...d=HU3W1CLL2FQ4
According to the article Calgary now has more head offices (109) than any other city in Canada. Vancouver has 80 which apparently is still more than either Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.
Those two figures were a huge surprise to me.
http://digital.calgaryherald.com/epa...d=HU3W1CLL2FQ4
According to the article Calgary now has more head offices (109) than any other city in Canada. Vancouver has 80 which apparently is still more than either Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.
Those two figures were a huge surprise to me.
Jul 30th 2008, 1:57 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
Article in today's Calgary Herald written by Don Cayo a columnist with the Vancouver Sun.
http://digital.calgaryherald.com/epa...d=HU3W1CLL2FQ4
According to the article Calgary now has more head offices (109) than any other city in Canada. Vancouver has 80 which apparently is still more than either Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.
Those two figures were a huge surprise to me.
http://digital.calgaryherald.com/epa...d=HU3W1CLL2FQ4
According to the article Calgary now has more head offices (109) than any other city in Canada. Vancouver has 80 which apparently is still more than either Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.
Those two figures were a huge surprise to me.
Hmmmmm...92 views and no comments.
That says a lot in itself.
Jul 30th 2008, 1:59 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
I karma-ed you yesterday for the interesting link, have a look 
Jul 30th 2008, 2:12 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
It's a subject that people on this forum don't know much, if anything, about and wouldn't be able to comment on without looking into it further. I'm a researcher by trade and naturally curious. Even I can't be bothered to go digging. I think that's why there are no replies.
Jul 30th 2008, 2:15 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
It's a subject that people on this forum don't know much, if anything, about and wouldn't be able to comment on without looking into it further. I'm a researcher by trade and naturally curious. Even I can't be bothered to go digging. I think that's why there are no replies.
Jul 30th 2008, 2:18 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
Oh, I'll reply to you Steve...
Interesting article, but it would be more interesting to see how many of those 109 companies are pan-Canadian companies, compared to how many are centred on the oil & gas industry, or indeed companies whose business is mainly in Alberta/Western Canada. Take out oil & gas related service companies, and the number probably falls somewhat.
The article is not entirely accurate... for example Fluor is not headquarted in Calgary - its' HQ is in Irving, Texas. There are probably other examples where Calgary is wrongly credited with the HQ.
True enough though about the short-sightedness of the changes at the "EnCana Banana".
Interesting article, but it would be more interesting to see how many of those 109 companies are pan-Canadian companies, compared to how many are centred on the oil & gas industry, or indeed companies whose business is mainly in Alberta/Western Canada. Take out oil & gas related service companies, and the number probably falls somewhat.
The article is not entirely accurate... for example Fluor is not headquarted in Calgary - its' HQ is in Irving, Texas. There are probably other examples where Calgary is wrongly credited with the HQ.
True enough though about the short-sightedness of the changes at the "EnCana Banana".
Jul 30th 2008, 2:22 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
Oh, I'll reply to you Steve...
Interesting article, but it would be more interesting to see how many of those 109 companies are pan-Canadian companies, compared to how many are centred on the oil & gas industry, or indeed companies whose business is mainly in Alberta/Western Canada. Take out oil & gas related service companies, and the number probably falls somewhat.
The article is not entirely accurate... for example Fluor is not headquarted in Calgary - its' HQ is in Irving, Texas. There are probably other examples where Calgary is wrongly credited with the HQ.
True enough though about the short-sightedness of the changes at the "EnCana Banana".
Interesting article, but it would be more interesting to see how many of those 109 companies are pan-Canadian companies, compared to how many are centred on the oil & gas industry, or indeed companies whose business is mainly in Alberta/Western Canada. Take out oil & gas related service companies, and the number probably falls somewhat.
The article is not entirely accurate... for example Fluor is not headquarted in Calgary - its' HQ is in Irving, Texas. There are probably other examples where Calgary is wrongly credited with the HQ.
True enough though about the short-sightedness of the changes at the "EnCana Banana".
I thought it interesting that it was not written by a Calgarian.
Jul 30th 2008, 2:56 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
Yes, I had to check that it was the Calgary Herald, and not a Vancouver paper!
Being pedantic (sorry!) ... Fluor Canada is, and always has been, a totally-owned subsidiary of Fluor Corporation. The Calgary office is, in effect, a "local" Head Office, not the corporate HQ.
Shell Canada (until last year) was an effectively independent separate company, not a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell. But in 2006/7 RDS bought out the shares in Shell Canada, and only now is it actually part of the global Shell group, under direct control of the RDS board. The independence is why Shell Canada do things differently to the "rest of Shell."
Being pedantic (sorry!
) ... Fluor Canada is, and always has been, a totally-owned subsidiary of Fluor Corporation. The Calgary office is, in effect, a "local" Head Office, not the corporate HQ.Shell Canada (until last year) was an effectively independent separate company, not a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell. But in 2006/7 RDS bought out the shares in Shell Canada, and only now is it actually part of the global Shell group, under direct control of the RDS board. The independence is why Shell Canada do things differently to the "rest of Shell."
Jul 30th 2008, 3:07 am
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Re: Calgary pushes past Vancouver
Yes, I had to check that it was the Calgary Herald, and not a Vancouver paper!
Being pedantic (sorry!) ... Fluor Canada is, and always has been, a totally-owned subsidiary of Fluor Corporation. The Calgary office is, in effect, a "local" Head Office, not the corporate HQ.
Shell Canada (until last year) was an effectively independent separate company, not a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell. But in 2006/7 RDS bought out the shares in Shell Canada, and only now is it actually part of the global Shell group, under direct control of the RDS board. The independence is why Shell Canada do things differently to the "rest of Shell."
Being pedantic (sorry!
) ... Fluor Canada is, and always has been, a totally-owned subsidiary of Fluor Corporation. The Calgary office is, in effect, a "local" Head Office, not the corporate HQ.Shell Canada (until last year) was an effectively independent separate company, not a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell. But in 2006/7 RDS bought out the shares in Shell Canada, and only now is it actually part of the global Shell group, under direct control of the RDS board. The independence is why Shell Canada do things differently to the "rest of Shell."
