Calgary Business Stories
Brand Magazine is based in Calgary, Alberta, and profiles the city’s brand builders, founders and market makers. This page collects our Calgary company profiles, brand builder features and leadership stories, newest first.
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PHIL ROBERTSON & SEBASTIAN SZTABZYB – Phil & Sebastian Coffee Roasters
Key takeaways Phil Robertson and Sebastian Sztabzyb co-founded Phil & Sebastian Coffee Roasters in Calgary in 2007. Phil designed the company’s one-of-a-kind roasting machine…
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GRAEME EDGE – Energy Disruptors & Scaleblaze
Key takeaways Graeme Edge is a Scottish-born, Calgary-based entrepreneur and co-founder of Energy Disruptors, a global platform and summit born in Calgary. Energy Disruptors…
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AMANDA HAMILTON – Amanda Hamilton Design
Key takeaways Amanda Hamilton is a Calgary interior designer and entrepreneur, founder of Amanda Hamilton Interior Design and Three Foot Nothing Construction. She was…
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Marketing a Movement:
Key takeaways ScaleUP Week launched in 2024 through a partnership between Mount Royal University’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and McLeod Law LLP, led…
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Fratello Coffee Roasters
Key takeaways Fratello Coffee Roasters began in Calgary in 1985 as Custom Gourmet Coffee and has been run by the Prefontaine family. In 2007…
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F*ckup Nights YYC
FuckUpNights YYC launched in 2019, founded by Shahr Smed and Amanda Ovaici—two friends who were tired of hearing only polished success stories. They wanted…
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EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year Program Recognizes Business Owners
Key takeaways EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year program has run in Canada for 31 years as part of a global program in about 94…
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Shauna Ockey Helps Calgary Flourish
Key takeaways Shauna Ockey, a former pediatric ICU nurse at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, founded Tanbridge Academy in 2007; it now serves more than…
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Inside aspiHer Women’s Business Club
Key takeaways aspiHer Women’s Business Club is a Calgary club for women who lead, build and invest, and for the male allies who support…
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UNFILTERED: Business Failures & Comebacks
Key takeaways F*ckUp Nights YYC is a quarterly Calgary speaker series where four founders and leaders each share one real business failure and what…
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JAYME MINOR & ADAM JONES – MAXGREEN
YYC F*CKUP NIGHTS YYC SPEAKER JAYME MINOR & ADAM JONES MAXGREEN Named to Top 40 Under 40 nearly a decade apart, business partners Adam…
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BRAD FIELD – HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION
YYC F*CKUP NIGHTS YYC SPEAKER BRAD FIELD HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION With nearly six decades in Calgary, Brad embodies the spirit of Western Canadian…
