Economic Development News

A snapshot of Durham Region’s economy in 2022

The Region of Durham’s Economic Development and Tourism division is responsible for supporting the growth of our Regional economy through creating and retaining jobs. To do this, Invest Durham promotes the region as a great place to do business, provides business services to attract new investment, enables a vibrant tourism industry, and provides agricultural and rural economic development programming in the northern townships.

The 2022 Economic Development and Tourism Annual Report captures a...

Meet the founders of some of Durham Region’s first-class creative service businesses

By Jennifer Foden These three companies are in the business of creativity. Whether you’re looking for a marketing agency, photography studio or video production, these businesses have got you covered.

Brand Ambition

Like many small business origin stories, Brand Ambition, a Bowmanville-based boutique marketing and branding agency, began in the founder’s living room. “When we first opened, I was working with three kids running around,” says Katie Dempsey, the owner and director of marketing. She...

Meet the founders of Durham Region’s leading agri-tech companies

By Jennifer Foden Durham Region has a strong centuries-old agricultural industry. However, these three agri-tech companies—focusing on everything from robotics to vertical farming—are innovating it.

Korechi Innovations Inc.

Although Sougata Pahari’s business has always been about developing robotic platforms, it has pivoted several times to get where it is today. Sougata, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Korechi Innovations Inc., started his company in 2016 with the idea to build a...

Discovering Durham’s Film Locations

Will McGuirk

On a familiarization tour hosted by Film Durham for film industry professionals, we asked local arts and culture specialist Will McGuirk to attend and share with us what he learned on this daylong tour of Durham’s film industry.

Private, public, farmland and factory, historic and state-of-the-art; when it comes to film locations Durham Region has it all covered.

Parkwood National Historic Site, the family home of General Motors Canada founder Colonel ‘Sam’ McLaughlin, is featured in a...

From Durham Region to nationwide: Taltis Foods is in full Growth Mode

By: Will McGuirk

An emigrant leaves much behind but not the taste for one’s own culinary culture. For Gilles Tchianga, founder of Taltis Foods in Ajax and Oshawa, it was the homesickness for dishes of his native country, Cameroon, that led him to open his own manufacturing company offering unique authentic African cuisine.

“I left my home country, Cameroon, many years ago after I completed my high school diploma,” says Tchianga, “to pursue my university studies at the University of Milan. I later...