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Many Canadian energy providers are exploring merging their businesses to become stronger and offer customers more competitive services. Before undertaking a merger, there are major financial and societal impacts to consider.

As a leading industrial electrical contracting company, B.C.-based Summit Electric has been serving clients for almost 20 years across the mining, forestry, and oil and gas sectors

Entegrus currently operates electricity distribution systems for over 60,000 customers in Southwestern Ontario. Entegrus also operates a successful fibre optic internet division, Entegrus Fibre. While this division was experiencing rapid growth, Entegrus decided it was in the customers’ best interest to sell this portion of the business to strengthen the other core business divisions, allowing them to better serve all their customers.

After running stores across Vancouver Island for 46 years, 49th Parallel Grocery shareholders felt the time was right to sell their business. What originally started as a family-owned café, grew to a general supply store, and then under the current owners expanded to four locations. Today, 49th Parallel’s four grocery stores include over 380 employees and over 80,000 square feet of retail space.

Known as a leader in the residential energy sector, Ecofitt has been successfully implementing energy efficient solution packages for utilities, retailers, and distributors across Canada. To date, Ecofitt has installed over 4.0 million Ecofitt LED light bulbs and 150,000 smart thermostats in over 500,000 homes.

After establishing four thriving animal hospitals, Nova Scotia-based Village Veterinary Group were approached to sell their practice. However, they weren't willing to sell to just any buyer—it had to had to be the right one.

For more than 50 years, Protective Packaging Limited, a family-owned and operated business, has supplied essential vinyl, plastic, and paper materials to many Canadian industries—from automotive and manufacturing to healthcare and aerospace companies. Their mission is to protect the end customer’s valuable products while offering excellent customer service, competitive prices, and one of the largest product ranges of any distributor in Canada

MDBilling.ca, a cloud-based medical billing platform, was created in 2008 to help solve a major pain point for physicians—allowing them to spend more time with patients and less time on administrative work. Now used by 9,000 physicians across Ontario and British Columbia, the Toronto-based business has helped to alleviate the burden of medical paperwork with its convenient mobile and web billing applications