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New Glasgow is a thriving combination of small, mid size and large businesses, which cultivate a vibrant retail, service and financial sector as well as ample opportunities for those in the skilled trades. The town continues to attract new businesses and employers such as Convergys, a high tech customer service center and the ICT call centre. Large retail outlets such as Canadian Tire, Wal-Mart, Staples, Pennington’s, Sears and Zellers are all located here. There are several commercial, service and business districts in the town, which include the Downtown core, Westville Road, East River Road and a developing Business Park in the Parkdale area. Downtown New Glasgow is home to financial institutions including the chartered banks, brokerage houses, insurance companies and computer-related businesses. In addition, scores of retail shops are located within the downtown as well as the region's radio station CKEC. Two major shopping centres, one located on Westville Road and East River Road commercial districts underscore the importance of New Glasgow to an extended local market of 100,000 people. The New Glasgow Business Park, located just off the Trans Canada Highway - Exit 25, houses major wholesale electrical warehouses, and offers prime land to companies for distribution facilities to service the Atlantic Canadian market. The park is home to headquarters for the New Glasgow Police, the central office for Maritimes Northeast Pipelines and Stright-MacKay, which has been servicing the marine industry for over 55 years with the most comprehensive inventory of marine equipment in Atlantic Canada. Other businesses and services found throughout New Glasgow include the Aberdeen Regional Hospital, several law firms, three Sobeys grocery stores, a Co-op store, the Atlantic Superstore and most major car dealerships. Tim Horton's, Wendys, McDonalds, Pizza Delight, Subway, Harvey’s, Swiss Chalet, Saint Cinnamon and Greco all have franchises in New Glasgow as well as Empire Theatres Studio 7. The Pictou County area boasts a strong list of national and multinational firms who choose to locate here and are major employers in the region. The corporate Head Offices for Sobeys Inc. and the Empire group of companies are located in Pictou County, as is the Sobeys Atlantic Regional office. Sobeys is Canada’s second largest supermarket chain, with 1400 stores across the country. In the last five years, Sobeys Inc. has made significant investment in the construction of a 600 person Administrative Service Centre, as well as an ongoing expansion and improvement program for the five Sobeys supermarkets in Pictou County. Operations include major warehousing and data centre buildings to serve Atlantic Canada, Quebec and Ontario. Maritime Steel and Foundaries Ltd. is a steel fabrication and machining operation that has been operated in New Glasgow for more than 100 years and employs approximately 100 people. Michelin Tires Canada Limited has located its Canadian manufacturing headquarters in Granton, Pictou County. Among its three Nova Scotian plant Michelin employs 3,000 people in both production and management operations. Neenah Paper manages the most productive Kraft pulp mill in Atlantic Canada and employs about 300 workers with an additional 1,000 employed through the woodlands operations. Scotsburn Dairy Co-operative Ltd. is Atlantic Canada's largest dairy products producer. In its first year in the study, Pictou County was rated as the most cost competitive community in Canada in which to do business. The overall cost competitive scoring was better than any of the 23 Canadian communities studied. It also scored better than the 98 international locations studied in 11 industrialized countries (2004-2005).
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