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Business and Economy

Information on commercial sites, that offer, sell or promote products and/or services to consumers, along with the business organizations that support them; and information on the economic status and trends for British Columbia, and associations that provide economic growth and development opportunities.

Please submit only sites relating to British Columbia. You can find a list of other localities in British Columbia here. If there are multiple locations for this site, consider Regional/North_America/Canada/Regions/Western or Regional/North_America/Regions/Pacific_Northwest

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Advertising and Marketing

This category is for sites about local businesses and organizations related to advertising and promotion. Includes sites for local businesses offering services that advertise, promote and encourage sales for other businesses.

Only regional businesses and organizations related to advertising and promotion with members in more than one regional district belong in this category.

If your information is specific to towns within one regional district only, please submit to that regional district.

If your information is specific to one city or town, please submit to that Locality.

Agriculture

Agricultural businesses, potentially including vineyards, farm markets, "you pick" farms, livestock auctions, livestock breeders, seed farms, tree farms, commercial nurseries (i.e., producing nursery stock for sale to retailers), turf farms, agricultural equipment suppliers, and similar businesses. Not to be confused with Science_and_Environment/Agriculture, which is for geographically focused information, such as "How to grow wine grapes in Elbonia."

Sites for Wineries, places that make wine from grapes, should be listed in Wineries.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Animals

This category is for sites about local animal-related businesses, economic conditions, and organizations. This includes sites about breeders, kennels, livestock, pets, and veterinary services.

Sites about animal welfare issues and organizations should be submitted to Society_and_Culture/Animal_Welfare/

Please submit only sites relating to the entire province of British Columbia. You can find a list of localities that comprise this region here. If the site relates to only one locality, then please submit to the appropriate category of that locality.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Automotive

For the listing of car, truck, and motorcycle dealerships, service centers, parts dealers, and body shops.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Beauty and Cosmetic Services

This category is for the listing of personal services such as salons, spas, tanning facilities, manicurists, and other body decoration services such as tattooing and piercing.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Business Services

The Business Services category lists sites that provide professional and administrative support services to a variety of businesses and organizations. In some cases, these companies also provide services to consumers, but providing services to other enterprises is their main focus.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Computers and Internet

Modern computers have become a universal tool, used in most occupations. The Internet itself, including the ODP, this Internet directory, is written on computers, stored on computers, presented by computers, and usually viewed on computers.

The Computers and Internet category contains sites relating to topics such as Hardware or Software sales and services, Internet access, web design and development, and consultants.

Only regional guides, directories, businesses or organizations with members in more than one regional district belong in this category.

If your information is specific to towns within one regional district only, please submit to that regional district.

If your information is specific to one city or town, please submit to that Locality.

Construction and Maintenance

For resources related to constructing, maintaining, and demolishing buildings and other structures, including heavy construction and civil engineering (e.g. such as roads, power plants, and pipelines). Architects, janitorial/housekeeping services, handyman services, and site preparation services are also included. This category does not include sites for home improvements such as window replacement and swimming pool installations. These are listed in Business and Economy/Home and Garden.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Directories

Province-wide business related portals and directories, including online yellow pages, that contain lists of business resources and/or company websites related to the region.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Economic Development

Economic development is about creating and promoting businesses and a healthy financial state of affairs in a particular region.

This category has links to sites dealing with economic growth of British Columbia, including government and private organizations, relief efforts, and information services.

Employment

Provides sites related to local employment conditions, including placement agencies, human resources, and sites offering help in finding jobs in the local economy.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Entertainment and Media

This category is for sites dealing with the entertainment industry within British Columbia as a whole. Such listings would include sites for the video production industry, film industry, audio production, record labels and the like.

Sites that would not be appropriate here are those that are adult in nature or that are specific to a smaller region than the whole province (for example, a video production facility with a single office in Prince George, or a record label with offices within Vancouver and Surrey—these would fit in a locality and regional district category respectively).

Please only submit sites according to the category description. Please do not submit sites here that are not specific to the province as a whole. Only sites covering more than one region or regional district should be placed here

Event Planning

For the listing of sites related to wedding, corporate, party, and other event planning services, including caterers, guides, convention and exhibition services.

This category does not list actual exhibitions and conventions. These should be submitted to the category relevant to the main focus of the exhibition or convention.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Financial Services

For the listing of banks, credit unions, lending institutions, insurance companies, accounting firms and providers of related financial services.

Please only submit sites belonging to banks, credit unions, lending institutions, insurance companies, accounting firms and providers of related financial services.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Food and Related Products

Includes industries and companies engaged in transforming livestock and agricultural products into products for intermediate or final consumption. Also, manufacturers and distributors of food and beverage processing supplies and equipment, wholesalers, and services supporting industries in this sector, which include consulting, employment, marketing, associations, etc. Professional and industrial resources are also included.

See description for what sites belong in this category.

The businesses must be located only in British Columbia. If they are located throughout Canada, instead suggest the site to Regional/North_America/Canada/Business_and_Economy/Food_and_Related_Products.
For local restaurants, bars, or bakeries, please suggest the website ONLY to the locality of the place.

For websites that sell foods online to individuals (not wholesalers) please suggest the site to Regional/North_America/Canada/British_Columbia/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Food.

Please follow these instructions and it will greatly help your site get listed sooner. Thank you!

Funeral Services

Preparation of the dead for burial or interment, and conducting funeral services.

This category lists sites related to the preparation of the dead for burial or interment and conducting funeral services. Includes funeral homes, parlors, mortuaries, casket makers, monument builders, and embalmers.

Please note that the businesses must be located solely in British Columbia. For businesses with multiple locations, including any outside of BC, the website should instead be suggested to the category Society/Death/Death_Care/Funeral_Services/North_America/Canada.

Home and Garden

This category is for regional businesses and economic activity related to products and services intended for the home and garden. Examples of products include sellers of plants, swimming pools, and windows. Examples of services include suppliers of water softeners, interior design, lawn maintenance, and house-sitting.

Note: This category does not include sites about home repairs or furniture sales.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Industrial

This category will list companies that produce products from raw materials and the companies that support them, such as distributors, wholesalers, industrial supply companies and manufacturing representatives. The general types of companies that will be listed here are food processing, aviation, conveyors, electronic, guns, instrumentation, mining, drilling, chemicals and textiles; however, the list is not limited to these industries.

Companies in industries that have a separate sub-category in Business and Economy will not be listed here. Examples of companies not listed here are agriculture, automotive, computers, home and garden, oil and gas, printing, publishing, and telecommunications.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Legal Services

This category is for sites offering information on legal services in the area including attorneys, notaries, and paralegals.

This category contains @links to the various British Columbia specific subcategories of Society/Law/Services/Lawyers_and_Law_Firms. Please choose one of those @linked categories to submit your site to and/or submit your site to the Business_and_Economy/Legal_Services (or nearest parent) category of the locality where your office is physically located. Do not submit directly to this category.

Marine Sales and Services

For the listing of wet and/or dry marinas, slipways, boat manufacturers or builders, ship chandlers, dealers, marine service centers, outfitters, sailmakers, charter or hire craft and other related businesses.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Organizations

Sites for organizations related to local business and economics in general. Organizations focused on a single, specific business topic will be listed under the relevant sub-category.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Personal Services

Includes links to sites for or about businesses or individuals offering personal services in the region. Sites might include personal chefs, personal valets, errand runners, and baby sitters.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Printing

Sites for businesses involved in the production of printed items such as newspapers, books, periodicals, posters, business forms and greeting cards. This includes print shops selling directly to the public and industrial scale printers, plus companies providing support services such as binding, plate making, and data imaging. Printing on clothing is included here because the production process is printing, not clothing manufacturing.

Please note, promotional items are listed under Business_and_Economy/Advertising_and_Marketing/ and magazines and newspapers under News and Media.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Public Utilities

Sites related to businesses that are subject to governmental regulation, and provide an essential commodity or service to the public, such as water, transportation, electricity, or communication, etc.

Please only submit web sites related to businesses that are subject to governmental regulation, and provide an essential commodity or service to the public, such as water, transportation, electricity, or communication, etc.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Real Estate

Only sites which provide real estate resources with a provincial scope will be listed here.

Please use the following formatting:

Title for agents: Agent Name - Company Name
Title for companies: Company Name

Description: Services offered, areas of service, and features on the site such as virtual tours and online forms.

Once the site is listed, please do not submit again unless your site changes substantially, such as virtual tours are added or the agency name or location changes. If this occurs, please use the Update URL option to notify us. Multiple submissions of the same or different sites is abuse and against real estate guidelines.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Restaurants and Bars

Lists local restaurants, bars, pubs, and dining establishments, as well as related guides. Sites for night clubs or bars with dance floors will be listed under Arts and Entertainment/Clubs and Venues.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Shipping, Storage, and Logistics

The focus of this category is the business of moving goods. This includes the storage, distribution and transportation of bulk commodities, other materials of commerce, packages, papers, and letters, via land, air and water for industrial, commercial and domestic purposes. Some examples of websites that could be placed in this category are sites about the shipping industry in British Columbia; railroad companies, barge operators, and other freight carriers; moving and warehousing companies, including residential moving and storage; trucking companies; companies offering loading and unloading or other specialized services for the transportation sector; companies providing freight forwarding, logistics, e-commerce and supply chain management services; commercial courier and messenger services; and companies offering rental of equipment such as forklifts or trucks.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.

Shopping

Retail shops selling goods to walk-in customers, and retailers who may take orders by phone or online but deliver goods only to the local area. This category can include malls, convenience stores, clothing, food, flowers and gifts, sporting goods, books and music.

Online shops, and shops where the focus is selling and delivering goods nationally and/or internationally will be listed at country level and may also be eligible for listing in the Shopping/ directory.

The following retailers should submit to the indicated categories for this location. If the categories do not exist, submit to the parent category. Artists and Galleries - Arts_and_Entertainment/Artists_and_Galleries/ Auto dealers - Business and Economy/Automotive. Garden centers and nurseries - Business_and_Economy/Home_and_Garden/Nurseries/ Drug stores, pharmacies, opticians, eye wear retailers, and equipment for assisted living are listed in the Health categories for this location.

Businesses that offer only online, phone, or mail order sales will not be listed in Regional Shopping categories, with three exceptions:
(1) The B&E/Shopping category at the national level may contain online shopping sites if the prices are quoted in Canadian dollars and the products are shipped from Canada.
(2) Businesses that offer sales online or by phone/mail only to customers in a limited geographic area (example: online grocery delivery services) may be listed in a category corresponding to their sales area.
(3) Online shopping companies that have a substantial local presence (for example, as an employer) in the city where they base their operations may be considered for listing in that city. Note that many online retailers also maintain a bricks-and-mortar retail outlet as part of their operations base.

Please read the category description below. Submitting your site to the wrong category can result in significant delays in the listing of your site.