07-20-2015, 08:46 AM
(07-19-2015, 12:11 PM)jgsz Wrote: Electrohome was one of Canada's largest manufacturers of TVs. Based in Kitchener.
Also furniture and many other items like radios, motors, etc.
Another former manufacturer of (then) "high tech" stuff was Marsland Engineering at Weber and Columbia.
Meanwhile in today's G&M: Waterloo startup to software leader, Open Text pins future on digitization
Quote:With a market capitalization of about $6-billion, Open Text is one of Canada’s most valuable software firms. Yet it’s worth less than 1 per cent of the stock market value of Apple Inc. and less than 2 per cent of Google Inc. Rivals International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and EMC Corp. are significantly larger...

