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Business and Economy

Includes sites covering the business and economic activities of the region; including listings of companies and industries.

Please submit only sites relating to Surrey. 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/British_Columbia/Regional_Districts/Greater_Vancouver or Regional/North_America/Canada/British_Columbia/Regions/Southwest

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.

Sites geared specifically towards Internet marketing agencies should be submitted to the Computers and Internet subcategory.

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 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.

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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.

Computers and Internet

Find links to local businesses and organizations related to computers and the Internet. This includes sites for and about businesses that sell/rent computer hardware and software, computer training, web design, Internet access, and support services.

Please do not submit sites for search engines, portals or web directories. These should be listed under the geographic category or under the Guides and Directories sub-category if there is one.

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Construction and Maintenance

Find resources related to constructing, maintaining, and demolishing buildings and other structures, including heavy construction and civil engineering (e.g. 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 or swimming pool installations. These are listed in Business and Economy/Home and Garden.

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Directories

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

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Employment

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

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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.

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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.

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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. Those sites are found in Construction and Maintenance. It also does not include sites for retail sellers of furniture, which are found in Furniture.

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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.

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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.

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Real Estate

Real estate agencies and agents with an office in Surrey, as well as businesses offering rental property, broker, appraisal, or property management services.

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.

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Restaurants and Bars

This category is for restaurants and bars, including pubs and brew pubs located in the City of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

Please submit only sites dealing with restaurants, bars, pubs and brew pubs located in Surrey, British Columbia.

When describing your site, please take time to read over the other listings in the category to get a sense of how the description should read. Basically, begin with a location within the city and the type of cuisine. Then make a list of what is found on your site. Remember that hype will be edited out and that this will delay publication of your listing.

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Shipping, Storage, and Logistics

The focus of Shipping, Storage, and Logistics 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.

The focus of Shipping, Storage, and Logistics is the business of moving goods. Some examples of websites that could be placed in this category are sites about the shipping industry, 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.

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.