Location Place Bonaventure, Monteal, Quebec

Sunday, March 2 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Monday, March 3 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, March 4 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, March 5 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Markets Represented  - Apparel, fashion accessories, contemporary handcrafted, general gift, gourmet food, garden accessories, holiday/floral, home & décor, housewares, jewellery, stationery, tourist/resort.

Anticipated Buyers 15,000

Profile of Attendees - Specialty retail, chain, department, gift, drug stores, home furnishing / decorative accessory, bed / bath / linen stores, book stores, bridal, children's gifts, craft & hobby, dollar stores, florist / garden, gallery / museum, gift basket, kitchen stores, wholesaler / distributors, premium incentive buyers, souvenir / resort shops, gourmet food, stationery / cards stores.

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Basically, what you can see is that Montreal has become significantly less dense over the years. Between 1971 and 1991, high-density zones shrunk while the city sprawled outwards; since 1991, things have been more or less stable.

Some of this has to do with depopulation, especially in working-class neighbourhoods that fell on hard times in the 1970s and 80s. 

But most of it comes thanks to a decrease in household size; while a typical Plateau apartment would have been home to an entire extended family before the 1970s, only a professional couple or small family would live there now.

This has also had an effect on retail businesses and thier locations. 

 According to a recent CIBC report, the number of self-employed who are nearing retirement (ages 55 to 64) has been rising rapidly in recent years, growing by a whopping 7.5% annually since the beginning of the decade. 

This is double the growth rate seen in the 1990s. One-fifth of small business owners (or more than 500,000) are planning to retire within the next five years, and another 30% will retire by 2020. 

That is, within the coming 15 years, more than half of the country’s current small business owners are expected to retire.” 

Sunbelt Business Brokers can help small business owners prepare for this transition, by preparing and marketing the company for sale, listing your company on the market, searching for qualified candidates and helping during the negotiations and closing of the sale.

Succession planning is becoming a critical issue - By the end of the decade, an estimated $1.2 trillion in business assets poised to change hands -- the largest turnover of economic control in generations. Accordingly, faulty succession planning could have significant economic costs resulting from reduced productivity, job losses, premature sales and increased bankruptcy rates. Yet only two in five small business owners have a clear plan for exiting their businesses. Moreover, at this stage of the game, a small business principal strength — the reliance on the human capital of the owner in almost every aspect of the business — is also becoming its primary weakness, since it means adequate succession planning requires time that is often measured in years, not days or months. Still, 60% of entrepreneurs aged 55 to 64 have yet to start discussing their exit plans with their family or business partners. CAs and other financial professionals can help draw attention to the need for succession planning well in advance of the small business owner’s desired retirement date. Note also that, among small business owners age 55 to 64, only about 15% have definite plans to transfer or sell the business to a family member (mostly to their children).

The next generation? Poised for the turnover? . . .