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20 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday August 30, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com OAKVILLE OUTLOOK Oakville - a great place to work, play and live Oakville is a thriving community of more than 165,000 people, located on the shores of Lake Ontario in Canada's heartland. The community is part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) which is Canada's largest metropolitan area with total population of about 5.3 million. Oakville residents enjoy the lifestyle of a small town while being part of one of North America's most dynamic city regions. Oakville's strong and diversified economic base offers an excellent location for both new and expanding businesses. More than 260 national and international corporate headquarters, constitute an important part of the 4,500 employers in Oakville. Oakville's Top 100 Employers & Top Employers by Industry includes companies from the automotive, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, ICT, professional service, and construction industries. Over 19,000 are employed by Oakville's Top 100 Employers. Oakville companies have access to a high quality local work force as 58 per cent of residents have a post secondary education. This level of education is 38 per cent than the provincial average. While manufacturing industries account for 15 per cent of employment, managerial/business/administrative categories make up 36 per cent of occupations. Being situated within the GTA, businesses in Oakville also draw on a larger increasingly mobile work force of 1.2 million within a 30 kilometre radius of Oakville. Local elementary and secondary schools are supplemented by nine independent schools. Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning main campus is located in Oakville, and provides a variety of education and training opportunities in business, animation, engineering, arts, social sciences and technical fields. Sheridan provides education to 13,000 full time post secondary students and 37,000 continuing education students. Oakville has an inventory of 17.9 million square feet of industrial space, and more than 1.9 million square feet of office space, with lease rates and property taxes that are competitive with other suburban locations (CBRE, Q1 2007). High amenity business parks and highway exposure characterize much of Oakville's available space and development sites to meet current needs and future growth requirement. The Town of Oakville has a robust and scalable telecommunications network that provides a full complement of telecommunications services to customers. From the Town of Oakville The Oakville Beaver publisher · Neil OLIVER general manager · DAVID HARVEY director of advertising · DANIEL BAIRD special features editor · SHANNON MASTALER cover design · STEVE NEASE photography CHANTAL AYOTTE, BARRIE ERSKINE, LIESA KOORTMANN, KAREN NEWMAN, REG VERTOLLI advertising sALES ZEPURE BAKMAZIAN, LISA CAPUTI, ERIC DAMAS, BILL DODGE, RON DODORICO, SHARON HOLDEN, KAY JOHNSTONE, ROB MARINI, SUZANNE TRICKEY, JEAN WRIGLEY creative department ADAM BOGLE, CATHERINE DORSEY, LIZ GRAINGER, SUSAN HALL, KRISTA SLOAN, MARY TAVARES, LINDA WEIR, DIANA WELCH production MARK DILLS, director MANUEL GARCIA, production manager SONIA HOLDER, asst. production manager OUTLOOK is an annual feature produced by the Oakville Beaver and Halton Business Times. The Oakville Beaver, 467 Speers Road, Oakville L6K 3S4 Tel: (905)-845-3824 Web:www.oakvillebeaver.com DORVAL DRIVE WYECROFT RD. SPEERS RD. www.lockwoodchrysler.com 175 Wyecroft Rd. Oakville 905.845.6653 Between Kerr & Dorval YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS! VISIT OUR ALL NEW WEBSITE KERR ST. TRAFALGAR QEW