Commercial

Expansion
Management Buyout
Strategic Acquisition
Inventory
Project Financing - Green Energy
Refinancing

EXPANSION

Bardel Entertainment
Bardel Entertainment is a Vancouver-based animation studio that specializes in children and family programming. The studio has worked on eight animated feature films, including DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt, more than 30 television series and home videos, and a variety of websites and commercials.

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Elastic Path Software
Elastic Path Software is a leading provider of ecommerce software for building sophisticated online e-commerce stores. The open-source software is simple, flexible and minimizes total cost of ownership for customers. Elastic Path operates a 'hybrid open source model' - it is a commercial enterprise grade product that is built on open source software. From a start up in 2001, the company has grown to build an impressive list of Fortune 500 companies around the world.

JR Laboratories
JR Laboratories is a leader in providing high quality analytical services for food, natural health products and pharmaceutical manufacturers and government agencies. The company spun out of a BC provincial government agency in 1988.

Kost Klip Manufacturing
Kost Klip is the largest manufacturer of in-store merchandising accessories in Canada. It is a major supplier of point-of-purchase merchandising products to retailers across North America, including mass merchandisers and department stores.

Navarik Corp
Navarik Corp. is a privately held Vancouver software company providing solutions to integrated oil companies for the shipment of oil around the globe. Faced with significant “software-as-a service” contract opportunities, Navarik required growth capital to complete software development for a new platform solution for the industry.

Pro Organics Marketing
From the Pacific to the Maritimes, Pro Organics is Canada's largest distributor of fresh organics foods, shipping daily from distribution centers in Vancouver and Toronto. Pro Organics represents over 500 certified organic farms worldwide, from Canada to the USA, Central and South America, Mexico, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. It serves over 1,000 accounts, from supermarket chains to independent retailers, natural food stores, home delivery companies, co-operatives and foodservice providers.

Sun Rich Fresh Foods
Sun Rich was founded in Vancouver by Brian Tieszen in 1988. Today it operates three plants in Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles that produce fresh cut fruit products for sale throughout North America. The company processes approximately 15 varieties of fruit for retail and foodservice clients. Growing demand for healthier and more convenient food choices has helped Sun Rich achieve steady growth. It currently employs over six hundred people.

Escents Aromatherapy
Escents is a Canadian manufacturer and retailer of fine aromatherapy bath and body products. Founded in 1992 by Jacqui and John MacNeill, the company's philosophy is to contribute to the well-being of the individual and the environment. All of the company's products are made using plant extracts rather than synthetic fragrances, which adds a "wellness" component to personal care.

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Oceanic Trading
Founded in 1977, Oceanic Trading specializes in the design and subcontract manufacturing of Stormtech branded clothing, which it sells through promotional product distribution channels across North America. The company also is a subcontract manufacturer and distributor of Champion brand product throughout Canada. Oceanic has an exceptional management team, strong profitability, excellent distribution channels and well developed brand value.

LOKI Management Systems
Founded in 1995, Loki Management Systems is a software development firm that specializes in the development of innovative workforce management solutions. The software helps companies save time and money and is ideal for healthcare organizations with over 100 employees and challenging labour environments.

MANAGEMENT BUYOUT

Canadian Art Prints
Founded in 1964, Canadian Art Prints (CAP) is an art publication business that has over 200 artists under contract and a catalogue of over 3,000 images. CAP sells through a well established distribution channel of framing shops, art galleries and big box stores throughout North America.

Cesco Electrical Supply
Cesco is a distributor of a wide assortment of electrical components used by industrial manufacturing firms throughout BC as an input for their end products. Founded in 1981 the company enjoys long term relationships with a wide range of industry leading suppliers including: Omron, Weidmuller, Panduit, Hoffman and ABB. Cesco's focused approach and resulting high degree of product knowledge has makes them a dominant player in the BC marketplace.

IMAC Design Group
IMAC designs and manufactures industrial machinery attachments and was founded in 1986. Its products include buckets, blades, quick couplers, grapples, forks, tire manipulators, cable reelers, cabs and other custom implements. IMAC's Lantec division designs and manufactures winches, hoists, gear drives and brakes. Exceptional production processes and controls coupled with extensive distribution channels have earned IMAC a dominant position within its market niche.

RST Instruments Ltd.
RST specializes in the design and manufacture of a full range of geotechnical and structural instrumentation used to investigate and monitor projects in the civil engineering, mining, infrastructure, power, dams and environmental sectors. Since its formation in 1977, RST has employed its strong technical capabilities and management depth to create a dominant position within an expanding international niche market.

The Finishing Touch Group
The Finishing Touch is a vertically integrated manufacturer, importer and retailer of fine interior home finishing products. Founded in 1983, the company offers the largest selection of hardwood floors and mouldings in BC. The Finishing Touch has retail-warehouse locations in Richmond, Burnaby, and Langley.

West Coast Air
West Coast Air offers the only Twin Otter float plane service between downtown Vancouver and downtown Victoria. Its fleet includes five deHavilland Twin Otter and two deHavilland Beaver float equipped aircraft. West Coast Air also operates flights between the Vancouver Airport float plane base and downtown Victoria.

STRATEGIC ACQUISITION

Cellcom Wireless
Established in 1995, Cellcom Wireless is a retailer of cellular telephones, digital and wireless devices and air-time plans. Today, it is Canada's largest exclusive Rogers Wireless dealer with 34 locations across the country.

Key Food Equipment
Key Food Equipment stocks, installs and services kitchen, restaurant and food service equipment, and is the factory-authorized representative for over 80 manufacturers. The company was established in 1982.

Nahanni Manufacturing
Nahanni, based in Langley and in operation for over 35 years, manufactures and services dump truck trailers, boxes and chassis. Primary customers are truck dealers who sell bare trucks to customers and then have Nahanni fit the boxes, hydraulics and other equipment.

Orbital Technologies
Orbital is a profitable, subcontract software developer that provides clients with custom software solutions. Blue-chip clients such as Adobe, Microsoft, Mattel and River Deep look to Orbital to provide either components or complete products, primarily in the area of database systems and integration.

Pyng Medical Corp.
Pyng Medical Corp. (TSX: PYT) is the developer and manufacturer of the proprietary, award-winning FAST1™ Intraosseous Infusion System. FAST1™ is the most rapid, reliable and safe alternative to conventional IV infusion providing lifesaving vascular access for fluid and drug resuscitation in shock and trauma victims.

INVENTORY

Coastal Contacts
Coastal Contacts, established in 2000, is a fast-growing online marketer of brand name contact lenses to individual customers in Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

PROJECT FINANCING - GREEN ENERGY

Furry Creek Power Ltd.
Furry Creek Power was established by four private investors to build an 11 MW "run-of-the-river" independent power project located 44 km north of Vancouver. In early 2003, the company was finalizing construction plans after signing a 20-year Energy Purchase Agreement with BC Hydro and its engineering and contractor teams were eager to get underway.

HTEC

Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation ("HTEC")
Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation ("HTEC") is a private company incorporated in the Province of British Columbia with a mandate to build, own and operate Canada's first west coast waste hydrogen purification processing pilot plant. HTEC's waste hydrogen purification processing plant is supplying otherwise wasted hydrogen to the multi-phase $19 million Integrated Waste Hydrogen Utilization Project in North Vancouver, BC, announced in October 2005 by David Emerson, then Minister of Industry.

Upnit Power Corporation
Vancity Capital led efforts to pull together a group of credit unions and other syndicated investors to finance the $14 million project of Upnit Power Corporation. Upnit, meaning calm place, is an Aboriginal-owned producer of green energy, based with the Hupacasath First Nation in Port Alberni, BC.

Verdant @ University

Verdant @ University
Vancity Capital funds green energy systems at no additional cost to developers or home buyers.

REFINANCING

the portables

The Portables
The Portables is Canada's only national exhibit company. Specializing in all aspects of exhibit design, production and support, The Portables have created thousands of spectacular custom and portable exhibits. The common theme for each of these exhibits is a desire by their clients to "stand out from the crowd".

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