Have you heard of Ktunaxa Ready?
A sample of Ktunaxa businesses ready to connect. Clockwise from top left: Line 49 Jewelry, Pair of Aces Drywall, Jen’s Body Balm, Tobacco Plains Duty-Free Shop, Indigenous View Photography, AshFireWear, Pro Active Safety.
Learn how you can connect and partner with Ktunaxa businesses in your community
The Ktunaxa Ready website ktunaxaready.com showcases Ktunaxa businesses to promote business-to-business relationships. Ktunaxa Ready makes it easy to identify Ktunaxa businesses and intends to provide information and contact details to simplify the process of making direct contact.
Shane Stewart, Manager of the Economic & Investment Sector said “When you purchase the goods and services from a Ktunaxa business you engage with the true Ktunaxa entrepreneurial spirit. Ktunaxa businesses are strong, occupy many market sectors, and offer trusted resources, products and services that satisfy the needs of organizations throughout British Columbia”.
Initiated by the Ktunaxa Economic and Investment Sector, the Ktunaxa Ready Business Directory was developed in response to a need for a central resource with details on products and services available from Ktunaxa businesses.
Ktunaxa Ready currently showcases 62 Ktunaxa Businesses and 25 affiliate businesses on its business directory
The Ktunaxa business directory showcases local businesses
The directory provides a page for each Ktunaxa business containing contact details, links to websites and social media channels, a description of products and services with photographs, areas of operation and location maps. The directory is fully searchable and can be sorted by categories.
Shane added “We have seen Ktunaxa Ready facilitate new partnerships, benefit communities, organizations, and industries, and contribute to our regional economy. Since 2020 a high number of businesses have struggled due to COVID-19, amazingly since 2020, 7 new Ktunaxa businesses have been created that are contributing to the local economy, this displays the resilience of the Ktunaxa people and entrepreneurs”.
Ktunaxa Ready currently showcases 62 Ktunaxa Businesses and 25 affiliate businesses. Affiliate businesses are joint ventures (JV’s) that a Ktunaxa business has partnered with, these partnerships might be to support employment opportunities, capacity building or/and revenue sharing.
A favourite feature of the Ktunaxa Ready website it the page listing current job opportunities.
Ktunaxa communities support economic growth
The Ktunaxa Nation Council (KNC) is the Ktunaxa Nation government in Canada. It is comprised of elected officials from ʔakisq̓nuk First Nation, Yaqan Nuʔkiy (Lower Kootenay Band), ʔaq̓am (St. Mary’s Band) and Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡiʾit (Tobacco Plains Band) First Nation Communities.
The Economic and Investment Sector supports Ktunaxa businesses to realize opportunities that exist here in Ktunaxa homelands and seeks to create an environment for business by attracting investment, developing partnerships, and facilitating opportunities for economic growth and sustainability in ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa.
To learn how you can connect with Ktunaxa businesses visit ktunaxaready.com
