Company Profiles

Detailed Design Drafting Services Limited

Parksville, British Columbia
Design
A traditional firm can restructure as an e-commerce operation and significantly expand markets, despite a remote location. Global export markets can be rapidly developed with a world-class quality of service normally associated with large urban centres.

Caravan Trade

Montreal, Quebec
Trading House
A small firm thriving in the international marketplace using email and a web site. E-commerce services can be inexpensively developed and maintained in-house by self-taught staff, supplemented with inexpensive student labour.

Media Touch Technologies Inc.

St. John's, Newfoundland
Commercial Education and Training / Software
A new media company that integrates Internet technologies into information systems to improve standard business operations such as supply chain management, project management, customer management and marketing.

Markus Cohen Law Office - The Virtual Law Firm ^TM

Toronto, Ontario
Legal Services
An example of how high-quality professional services can be marketed internationally via the Internet. This small, virtual firm increased its profile with a simple web site and an Internet presence to compete against larger, established law firms.

Pac-N-Save Shipping & Moving Limited

Edmonton, Alberta
Logistics
Using basic web site technology, e-mail and online sources, Pac-N-Save has developed new opportunities in diverse markets. It deployed e-commerce technology to rapidly broaden its serviceable markets, improve the quality of its services and diversify its operations.

TerraSat Geomatics Inc.

Vancouver, British Columbia
Geomatics
Integrating e-commerce can help a firm strategically reposition its operations. E-commerce technologies and practices can be valuable in charting a new direction, developing new markets and creating new ways of doing business.

Bacal & Associates - Work911.com

Winnipeg, Manitoba
Management Consulting
A small firm economically creates a successful e-commerce operation through effective web site "sticky" marketing, an integrated online marketing plan and diligence.

Atlantic Business Development Corporation Limited

Bedford, Nova Scotia
Commercial Education and Training / Consulting
A one-person operation uses e-commerce to improve the efficiency of its operations, project a professional image, and develop new opportunities. It successfully integrates traditional and online marketing tactics and leveraged business partnerships to improve the quality of its e-commerce services.

Other Profiles, Case Studies and Success Stories

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The eCommerce Innovation Centre (eCIC) at Cardiff University, Wales, is a useful source of information on electronic commerce for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). A series of detailed case studies illustrate how a number of SMEs in South Wales are gaining benefits from the pragmatic use of e-commerce and the opportunities that it presents . Featured service industry firms are:

• Blackwood Industrial Supplies Ltd.
  Wholesale Distribution
  "Vital tools for a business process re-engineering exercise."
  http://www.cf.ac.uk/masts/ecic/BIS.pdf
  
  
• Hewlin Design Ltd.
  Clothing Design
  "eCommerce as a tool to help channel new markets."
  http://www.cf.ac.uk/masts/ecic/Hewlin.PDF
  
  
• West Coast Towing Ltd.
  Towing and Salvage
  "eCommerce impacts on traditional office processes."
  http://www.cf.ac.uk/masts/ecic/WCT.PDF
  
  
• CIO Magazine