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Lakeland Valley Developments Ltd.

  • CA-BC-LAK-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1960s-

Lakeland Valley Developments Ltd. was a real estate development company based in the Lower Mainland in the 1960s. The company, headed by a 'Mr. Boyd', aimed to develop a ski resort at Powder Mountain in the Sea to Sky area, however these plans were halted.

Labatt Brewing Company

  • CA-ON-LAB-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1847-

Labatt Brewing Company, also known as Labatt Breweries, is a Canada-based, Belgian-owned brewery. It was founded by John Kinder Labatt in 1847 in London, ON (at that time Canada West). John had immigrated to Canada from Ireland in the 1830s and initially established himself as a farmer near London. In 1847, he invested in a brewery with a partner, Samuel Eccles, launching "Labatt and Eccles". When Eccles retired in 1854, Labatt acquired his interest and renamed the firm the "London Brewery". He was assisted by his sons Ephraim, Robert, and John. When John Kinder Labatt died in 1866, his son John assumed control of the company. Under his supervision, it grew to be the largest brewery in Canada. Following his death in 1915, the company was controlled by a trust operated by his nine children, although his sons, John Sackville Labatt and Hugh Francis Labatt, assumed managerial control. In 1901, prohibition in Canada began through provincial legislation in Prince Edward Island. In 1916, prohibition was instituted in Ontario as well, affecting all 64 breweries in the province. Although some provinces totally banned alcohol manufacturing, some permitted production for export to the United States. Labatt survived by producing full strength beer for export south of the border and by introducing two "temperance ales" with less than two per cent alcohol for sale in Ontario. However, the Canadian beer industry suffered a second blow when prohibition in the United States began in 1919. When prohibition was repealed in Ontario in 1926, just 15 breweries remained, and only Labatt retained its original management. This resulted in a strengthened industry position. In 1945, Labatt became a publicly traded company with the issuance of 900,000 shares. John and Hugh Labatt, grandsons of founder John K. Labatt, launched Labatt 50 in 1950 to commemorate 50 years of partnership. The first light ale introduced in Canada, Labatt 50 was Canada's best-selling beer until 1979. In 1951, Labatt launched its Pilsener Lager; when it was introduced in Manitoba, the beer was nicknamed "Blue" for the colour of its label and the company's support of Winnipeg's Canadian Football League (CFL) franchise, the Blue Bombers. The brewmaster at the time was Robert Frank Lewarne. The nickname "Blue" stuck, and in 1979, Labatt Blue claimed the top spot in the Canadian beer market. It lost this status in the late eighties to Molson Canadian, but over the next decade, it periodically regained the top spot as consumer preferences fluctuated. In 2004, Budweiser took the top spot, pushing Blue to third for the first time in twenty-five years. However, since Labatt has brewed Budweiser (and other Anheuser-Busch products) in Canada under licence since the 1980s, Labatt likely did not suffer from this shift. Labatt was also the majority owner of the Toronto Blue Jays from their inception in 1976 until 1995, when Interbrew purchased Labatt. In 2000, Rogers Communications purchased an 80% stake in the team and Interbrew retained the other 20%; Rogers later acquired full ownership of the team. Labatt's innovations include the introduction of the first twist-off cap on a refillable bottle in 1984. In 1989, Labatt's had the opportunity to hire Canadian model Pamela Anderson as a Labatt's Blue Zone Girl after she was picked out of the crowd by a TV camera man at a BC Lions football game wearing a Blue Zone crop-top. Photographer and boyfriend Dann Ilicic produced the Blue Zone Girl poster on his own after Labatt's refused to have anything to do with it. Later, Labatt's did buy 1000 posters to deal with consumer demand. In 1995, Labatt was acquired by the large Belgian multinational brewer Interbrew (now InBev), the world market leader. Labatt is part-owner of Brewers Retail Inc., operator of The Beer Store retail chain, which—protected by legislation—has over 90% market share of Ontario off-premises beer sales. In early 2007, Labatt also acquired Lakeport Brewing Company of Hamilton, ON. In 2009, the company sold Labatt USA, including the American rights to its core Labatt products (such as Blue, Blue Light, and Labatt 50) to FIFCO USA, and agreed to brew those brands on Labatt USA's behalf until 2012. This sale was mandated by the US Department of Justice for competitive reasons following InBev's merger with Anheuser-Busch, since Budweiser and Labatt Blue were both among the top brands in upstate New York, despite the latter having less than 1% market share in the US overall. The sale did not include US rights to Labatt products not carrying the "Labatt" label, such as Kokanee or Alexander Keith's, which are now distributed in the U.S. by Anheuser-Busch. Moreover, the underlying intellectual property (such as the Labatt trademarks) remains the property of the Canadian firm. Finally, the sale did not affect Labatt's Canadian operations in any way, however Anheuser-Busch InBev retains full control of the Labatt brand portfolio within Canada. In 2020, Labatt acquired Canadian distiller Goodridge & Williams, a company known for creating Nütrl Vodka Soda and other ready-to-drink (RTD) canned cocktails. Labatt has sponsored the construction of many buildings in London, ON, including Labatt Park, the John Labatt Centre, and the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre at the University of Western Ontario (UWO). Labatt is currently headquartered in Toronto, ON, and it operates breweries in London, ON; St. John's, NL; Halifax, NS; Creston, BC; Edmonton, AB; Buffalo, NY (current United States Headquarters); and Norwalk, CT.

L. Rasmussen Co. Ltd.

  • CA-MB-LRA-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1990s-

L. Rasmussen Co. Ltd., now known as Gateway Rasmussen, was a cookbook printer based in Winnipeg, MB. L. Rasmussen Co. Ltd. and Gateway Publishing Co. Ltd. merged in 2012 to become Gateway Rasmussen, one of the largest cookbook publishers in North America.

L. & K. Lumber

  • CA-BC-LKL-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1950s-1980s

L. & K. Lumber was a lumber company and sawmill active at the Vancouver Wharves Ltd. of North Vancouver from the late 1950s to the 1980s. The company owned the tugboat Barbie L IV in the 1960s.

Kusawa Contracting Ltd.

  • CA-BC-KUS-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1980s-

Kusawa Contracting Ltd. is a smokejumper (specially trained wildland firefighters who provide an initial attack response on remote wildland fires) contracting company which was based in Revelstoke, BC in the 1980s. Kusawa Contracting provides government agencies with fire crews, rappel crews, and smokejumper crews. The smoke jumper and rappel initial attack systems are used for fire suppression in the Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Alberta, and British Columbia.

Kona Bikes

  • CA-BC-KON-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • 1988-

The Kona Bicycle Company, more frequently known as Kona Bikes, is a bicycle and mountain bike company based in Ferndale, WA. The company was founded in 1988 by Dan Gerhard and Jacob Heilbron in Vancouver. Gerhard and Heilbron worked initially with Mountain Bike Hall of Fame rider Joe Murray to create a range of custom steel hardtail mountain bikes. Kona was the first brand to produce a complete range of sloping top tube design mountain bike frames. Paul Brodie collaborated with the TBG and was likely instrumental in implementing the sloping top tube design from previous work with Rocky Mountain and with his own company, Brodie. Their Canadian headquarters was located near the famous North Shore Mountains of Vancouver, leading Kona to develop a range of Freeride mountain bikes in 1998 known for durability as well as for their ability to handle extremely technical downhill terrain. Kona has gone on to develop a complete range of road, commuter, and cyclo-cross bikes in addition to a complete range of mountain bikes. Using a range of materials including carbon fiber, titanium, aluminum, and steel, Kona's bikes are sold in over 60 countries worldwide. Their world headquarters are now in Ferndale, WA, with Canadian distribution offices in Vancouver, and European distribution offices in Monaco. On January 19, 2022, the founders announced the sale of the company to diversified outdoor equipment maker Kent Outdoors. Kona has a long-standing tradition in the support of bicycle racing, beginning with their first product designer Joe Murray who was also a two-time US National mountain bike champion. Many elite riders have been part of the Kona Team, including 2012 Giro D'Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal (CAN), two-time World Champion cross country mountain biker (2001, 2002) Roland Green (CAN), World Downhill Champions Steve Peat (UK) and Greg Minnaar (RSA), 2004/2005 World Downhill Champion Fabien Barel (FR), World Cup Downhill Champion Tracy Moseley (UK), and US National Mountain Bike and Cyclo-Cross champions Ryan Trebon and Anne Knapp. Over 200 National and World Champions have been won by Kona riders. The current Kona Factory team competes in National and International events and includes riders from Canada, the UK, Australia, France, and the US. Kona has been an International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA) corporate supporter since 1994, and has developed fundraising projects including the Kona Buck-A-Bike program, the Kona Bro Deal program, the Interbike bowling tourney, and Kona/IMBA Freeriding grants. The Kona/IMBA bowling party, held at Interbike from 1998 until 2007, raised money for NEMBA, a New England IMBA-related advocacy group. Its purpose was to help purchase a large area for mountain biking by funding the KONA/IMBA freeride grants. The Kona/IMBA Freeride grants helped clubs throughout the US and Canada build freeride features on trails, as well as building dirt jump parks in parks. For 2008, Kona sponsored the IMBA Epic Rides program, helping fund four new rides throughout the United States and Canada. The trails set aside as Epic rides for 2008 were the Mid Mountain Epic in Park City, Utah; Comfortably Numb in Whistler, British Columbia; the trails sponsored by PAMBA outside of Peoria, Illinois, and the Loon Lake Epic in Tamarack, Idaho. In 2006, Kona began its largest advocacy effort to date - BikeTown Africa. The Kona Africabike was a bike built in partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Bicycling Magazine. The Kona Africabike was designed specifically to assist health care workers treating HIV and AIDS patients with the delivery of home health aids and other services in African Cities, starting with Bobonong, Botswana and Gaborone, Botswana. More recent projects have included Delft and Stellenbosch. For 2008, Kona pledged to donate 1,000 Africabikes for the project and due to the overwhelming customer support of this project, Kona set up a non-profit/humanitarian organization from their European HQ in Geneva, Switzerland called Kona Basic Needs. This organization's aim is to continue to raise more funds and awareness of the Kona Africabike program and to continue the donation of these bikes.

Kokanee

  • CA-BC-KOK-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1960s-

Kokanee is a pilsner-style lager beer brand brewed at the Columbia Brewery in Creston, BC. It was the best-selling lager in BC, gaining its particular character from its blend of Pacific Northwest hops. The Columbia Brewery also brews Kokanee Gold, Kokanee Light, and Kootenay True Ale. While Kokanee is also a name for landlocked Sockeye salmon, the beer is in fact named after the Kokanee Glacier in the Kootenay mountain range, near which Creston is situated. The picture on the label consists of a mountain known as Grays Peak in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. Kokanee began brewing in the 1960s, and initially its sale was restricted to the residents of the interior of British Columbia due to BC liquor laws. After Labatt Brewing Company bought the Columbia Brewery in 1974, they hired the advertising agency WestCan, later to be known as Scali McCabe Sloves, whose Vancouver office produced a number of humorous radio and then international award-winning TV campaigns introducing "The Sasquatch", including, for instance, (and still under the name WestCan at the time) two International Broadcast Awards, both introducing the legendary Sasquatch trademark. This success in TV took the brand to BC market domination and peaked with a 30% plus brand share in 1986. These Sasquatch ads also were featured on the NBC "Tonight Show" as samples of the "World's Best". Other later efforts included a mock documentary showing Kokanee bottles migrating up a stream like salmon. These helped the brand become the BC market leader with a share of 17% in 1992. In 1992, Labatt hired Beakbane Marketing, from Toronto, to revitalize the packaging. Unusual for the time, they changed the icon of the Kokanee Glacier to a photo montage that was shot from a helicopter by nature photographer Alec Pytlowany. The image of the glacier was used on all packaging materials including bottle labels, cans, and cartons. At that time a small sasquatch icon was developed and hidden in each design. The Kokanee brand was introduced to Ontario in 1996, but to save on shipping, the beer was brewed at Labatt's facility in London, ON. Molson Breweries launched a preemptive advertising campaign questioning the beers legitimacy, with the slogan "B.C. or B.S.?". In 2001, Labatt re-launched Kokanee, trucking it in from the brewery in Creston. Kokanee's more recent marketing slogans include "It's The Beer Out Here" and "Glacier Fresh". Later the ad campaign follows the storyline of the "Kokanee Ranger", played by John Novak; and his unsuccessful attempts to hunt and catch the Sasquatch who is stealing Kokanee beer. These commercials parody the real life Sasquatch hunter René Dahinden, who appeared in the first Kokanee commercial of its kind. According to the ad campaign, the Ranger eventually recruited three Glacier Girls to join the search to catch the elusive Sasquatch. These girls were originally introduced first in 1985 as "The Kokettes". In 2008, a new campaign encouraged customers to visit a website (RangerLiveOrDie.ca) and vote on whether the Kokanee Ranger should live or die. The campaign concluded with the Kokanee Ranger ultimately being killed off in a commercial that spoofed the last few minutes of the final episode of The Sopranos. Kokanee was an early sponsor of the annual Crankworx mountain biking festival in Whistler, BC, which began in 2004. In 2011, Kokanee launched a Facebook campaign that encouraged Kokanee drinkers to vote for a new Ranger as Sasq's raids on Kokanee residents' beer in the absence of the Ranger grew bolder. A TV ad showed the late Ranger as a ghost resuming his post and duties, discovering he's dead as his hand passes through a bottle of Kokanee, remembering "you killed me off!" indignantly, and sourly wished the viewers "good luck" in finding his replacement. Voters chose from a varied choice of candidates: "Ma Ranger", the mother of the Kokanee Ranger; "Micheal Baystreet" a Gordon Gekko-like TSX day trader; "Cory", a Ski instructor who has skied the Rockies since the '80s and needs some responsibility; "Beer Fridge 2.0", a beer cooler with a lock; "Glacier and Fresh", a Starsky and Hutch-esque buddy duo eager to make their mark by stopping Sasq's crime wave; and "Glacier Goat" a foul mouthed cantankerous goat. The candidates also had individual Facebook pages as fictional characters, posting articles, videos, and responding to fans posts on their pages campaigning, and unveiling story lines to their own niche dynamics: Micheal Baystreet seeks to redevelop the Kootenays with condo high rise apartments, Ma wants to satisfy her widow lusts. Kokanee drinkers voted for "Glacier and Fresh" after a narrow election victory over runner up "Goat". In May 2012, Kokanee and Alliance Films announced that it would be producing a feature-length film for release in 2013. Known as The Movie Out Here, the film (which was also co-produced by Grip Limited, the agency behind some of Kokanee's recent campaigns) was promoted by Kokanee using a social media and crowdsourcing-oriented marketing campaign of its own, and serves as Labatt's first experiment with feature-length branded content. In 2016, Labatt was purchased by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, and Kokanee has become less commonly found, even in its home of BC.

Koala Springs

  • AU-KOA-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1980s-1990, 2012-2018

Koala Springs was a juice-flavoured mineral water company which was first launched in the 1980s in Melbourne, Australia. It featured flavour combinations including raspberry-guava and orange-mango. In 1989, the privately held Melbourne, Australia-based company recorded $150 million in worldwide sales, with $60 million of that total in the U.S. Koala has 2.5 percent of the U.S. sparkling water market and 23 percent of the U.S. market for mineral-water-with-juice drinks. In November 1990, Benzene traces in Koala Springs’ beverages led the company to recall it from shelves across the United States and Canada, the second big recall of a bubbly beverage due to the cancer-causing contaminant. Health officials said the problem may have been one of marketing rather than safety, since drinks classified as bottled water are subject to more exacting purity standards. Florida’s Health Department found samples with 11 to 18 parts per billion of cancer-causing benzene. That level of benzene does not pose a significant risk and may be similar to levels found naturally in fruit or fruit drinks. Still, it exceeded the 1 part per billion maximum for bottled water under Florida law, and that brought a warning from the health department to local stores and a quick response from Koala Springs. In an effort to head off problems and protect its image president John Chatham quickly halted production and cleared the drink from shelves. At this time, their US headquarters was in Fremont, CA. Koala executives visited Florida to confer with health officials and, when Koala tests duplicated the Florida results, the company ordered the halt in production and sales in the United States and Canada. In 2012, Koala Springs attempted to relaunch, but was unable to compete with other beverage brands, fizzling out by 2018.

Kelver Mines Ltd.

  • CA-BC-KEL-001
  • Entidade coletiva
  • fl. 1960s-1970s

Kelver Mines Ltd. was a mining company in operation in British Columbia (and based in Vancouver) in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1968, Kelver Mines Ltd. conducted geological mapping, trenching, and drilling for fluorite at the Green Gables West showing, located 16 km southwest of Vernon, BC, between lower Whiteman Creek and Okanagan Lake.

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