SpotlightFebruary2018

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10 SPOTLIGHT ON INDUSTRY 10 MESH MEDIA NETWORK How to do “Sponsorship” the RIght Way 12 TWIN MONKEYS BEVERAGE SYSTEMS INC Canned Beverages are the Future 18 WEST COAST CANNING Canada’s FIrst Mobile Canning Company 22 CONTRACTORS’ CORNER Howmuch, approximately will the project cost? 24 NORTHERN CANNING Ontario’s Mobile Canning Company 30 IRON HEART CANNING CO. Quality on the Road 36 SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS 36 BLINDMAN BREWING Great Vibes, Great Beer 44 MT. BEGBIE BREWING CO LTD. Make Beer, Not War 52 HEARTHSTONE BREWERY We Brew this Beer you don’t know you Love Yet 58 STRATIGRO SMALL BUSINESS TIP FOR FEBRUARY 6 Secrets of Happy Entrepreneurs 60 AFTER DARK DISTILLERY Just like the Old Days 64 PEPPER NORTH Award Winning Sauces

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When Spotlight on Business had the opportunity to chat with the owners of Twin

Monkeys Beverage Canning Systems in Aurora, Colorado, I was imme- diately captivated by their backstory – and it put me in mind of a quote. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco in 2012, Jim Goetz, the famous Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist, told a room full of reporters and aspiring startups that “It’s shocking we don’t see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.” Simply put, Goetz gets it. He’s a Stanford educated electrical and computer engineer who sits on the board of directors for the likes of Carbon3D, ...

THE BEST STORIES have modest beginnings. Sure, I get the appeal of tales about the conquering hero, but the setup is almost always weighed-down by a list of past victories – and very few defeats – that have little or no meaning for what’s to come. That entire pretense, all that bluster just gets in the way of the real action that is the living characters. When Spotlight on Business reached out to Dean and Louise Perry, the husband and wife co-owners of After Dark Distillery in Sicamous, British Columbia, I knew that I was in for a good story – the best kind.

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72 SPOTLIGHT ON HEALTH

72 HOLISTIC HEALTH TIP FOR FEBRUARY BY JANICE BUCKLER The Secret to a Healthy Diet is what you Leave Out

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When I asked the pair...

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