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Biggest B.C. business owned by women

 

Ranked by number of staff in B.C.

Rank ’13	Company	Owners	Year found	No. B.C. staff ’13/’12
1	Macdonald Realty	Lynn Hsu	1944	991/991
2	Purdy’s Chocolates	Karen Flavelle	1907	663/663
3	The Personnel Department	Leslie Meingast(65%)	1980	567/430
4	TM Events	Traci Myles	2001	550/550
5	SimpeQ Care lnc	Janie Robinson (50%), Gerry Clayford Beckie (50%)	2003	425/425
6	CEFA Early Learning Schools	Natacha Beim	1998	347/200
7	Army and Navy Department Store Ltd	Jacqui Cohen	1919	280/300
8	Capilano Group of Companies	NancyStibbard	1983	250/250
9	Culinary Capers Catering and Special Events	Debra Lykkemark	1986	175/175
10	Dye and Durham Corporation	Constance Fenyo	1874	168/168
11	Escents Aromatherapy	Jacqui MacNeiII and husband	1992	132/130
12	Robar Industries Ltd	100%	1958	95/NP
13	Mustel Group	Evi Mustel and Jami Koehl	1980	90/80
14	Vancouver Gear Works Ltd	Virginia Smith	1952	85/91
15	PacificWestem Brewing Co	Kazuko Komatsu	1957	85/85
16	Lesley Stowe Fine Foods Ltd	Lesley Stowe	1989	80/75
17	Imprint Plus	Maria Kott (45%), Ellen Flanders (45%), Kristin MacMillan (10%)	1981	62/62
18	Boardroom ECO Apparel	Lan Tran (50%)	1996	58/58
19	McNeil Nakamoto Recruitment Group	Sarah McNeil (50%), Cheryl Nakamoto (50%)	1996	50/50
20	Kryton International Inc.	Kari Yuers	1973	44/39
21	Trumps Fine Food Merchants & Wholesalers	Heather Angel	1987	40/45
22	Jubilee Tours and Travel Ltd (dba Travel Best Bets)	Claire Newell	1993	37/NP

 Source: Business in Vancouver (August 6-12, 2013)