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The staff and management team of Blowes Travel & Cruise Centres Inc. and G. Stewart Travel Services Ltd. pictured at a recent travel conference in Toronto. The two companies are merging as Blowes & Stewart Travel Group Ltd. effective September 1, 2019. Blowes Travel & Cruise Centres co-owner and VP Barry (Sam) Blowes is pictured at the far left, with Blowes Travel & Cruise Centres co-owner and VP Rob Blows centre front left and G. Stewart Travel Services Ltd. co-owner and president Scott Stewart centre front right. (Photo courtesy of G Stewart Travel Services Ltd.)

businessNOW – August 20, 2019

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Featuring the merger of Stratford's Blowes Travel and Cruise Centres and Peterborough's G. Stewart Travel Services, Neo Rare Metals, Peterborough KIA, Euphoria Caffé, and more.
Northumberland Community Futures Development Corporation (CFDC) executive director Wendy Curtis and Northumberland-Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd (centre) join local women entrepreneurs and business leaders at Venture13 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre in Cobourg on August 8, 2019, when the federal government announced an investment of $1.4 million in Northumberland CFDC's DELIA, a financial technologies lending platform that will priorize commercial loan applications for women-owned and women-led enterprises in Eastern Ontario. (Photo: Office of Kim Rudd)

businessNOW – August 13, 2019

Central Smith Creamery owner Ian Scates (second from left) and vice-president/marketing Jenn Scates (right) present a cheque for $13,420.25 to Jane Lovett (left) and Lesley Heighway (second from right) of PRHC Foundation on August 1, 2019 at the dairy's location at 739 Lindsay Road in Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of PRHC Foundation)

businessNOW – August 6, 2019

Tragically Hipp owner Evelyne Derkinderen and her partner Peter Osborne are the proud owners of 60 Queen Street in Lakefield. Derkinderen learned several months ago that the building was going to be sold, which could have potentially forced her to close her popular women's fashion shop at its iconic location. (Photo: Tragically Hipp / Facebook)

businessNOW – July 30, 2019

Brian Kerr, CEO and general manager of Kawartha Dairy in Bobcaygeon, has been profiled by the Globe and Mail. A Bobcaygeon native who previously worked for Kraft Heinz Canada, Kerr has been working at Kawartha Dairy since September 2018. (Photo via strategyonline.ca)

businessNOW – July 23, 2019

Peterborough-Kawartha MP Maryam Monsef announcing $256,250 in federal funding for three new green economy hubs, including in Peterborough. An initiative of the non-profit organization Green Economy Canada, green economy hubs have already been established in Hamilton and Burlington, Kingston, London, Ottawa, Sudbury, Waterloo Region, and York Region, with 250 businesses collectively reduced 200,000 tons of greenhouse gases to date. (Photo: Office of Maryam Monsef / Facebook)

Federal funding will create Peterborough ‘green economy hub’ and help local businesses be more energy efficient

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