Summer Company is a youth program offered by the Ministry of Economic Development & Innovation (MEDI). The program provides students aged 15 to 29 with start-up funding and business training to open and operate their own businesses for the duration of the summer. Each student is assigned a volunteer mentor from within the community to [...]
Local athlete Taylor Brown is using his business background and past work experience to run a full-time summer business, through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation’s Summer Company Program. Affordable Window Cleaning provides residential and commercial window cleaning services in Peterborough and the surrounding area. The Stewart Hall resident grew up playing sports – [...]
[PETERBOROUGH, ON] The Business Advisory Centre, a division of the Greater Peterborough Area Economic Development Corporation (GPA EDC), is pleased to announce seven new youth business starts in the Peterborough region through the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation’s 2012 Summer Company Program: Student Name Business Name Business Description Christine Anderson Christine’s [...]
The annual Summer Company Training Day brought together 50 young entrepreneurs from Cobourg, Belleville, Durham, Kawartha Lakes, and the Peterborough region. Young entrepreneurs had the opportunity to network and learn from successful Summer Company alumni who shared their experiences and offered advice. The day’s events included roundtable discussions as well as presentations on bookkeeping and [...]
