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MESSAGE FROM CHAMBER

PRESIDENT & CEO

Welcome to the 2024/2025 Cambridge
Business Directory and congratulations
because what you have in your hand is a tool
that can make your business and life even
better.
Our directory is filled with your peer group of
companies that offer services in virtually every
area of need. Construction, material supplies,
wholesalers, retail stores, automotive shops
and suppliers, household works i.e., plumbing,
electrical, painting. The list is endless and when
we support our peers, they support us right back.

The environment around us is changing, the
political divides have never been greater, and
we see those challenges clearly on the horizon. Every day, the Chamber is communicating with
The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce is actively the powers of control, recommending changes,
working with all levels of government to ensure advocating for a better business climate, and while
business opportunities are prioritized and moved sometimes it seems like pushing rope up a hill, we
to the top of the list. We are working locally to make sure your voice is heard, and respected.
help build a better, cleaner, safer and more robust We believe that a healthy economic climate
community.
ensures a vibrant business sector. We have
It is our mandate to build business and community worked hard over the years to ensure Cambridge
together. We have just celebrated our 100th has a diversified economic base and remains
anniversary (dating back to the incorporation of “the makers” (advanced manufacturing centre of
the Galt Chamber of Commerce in 1924). We’ve been Waterloo Region). We’ve been doing that for 100
actively involved since before the establishment years and will never stop. It is worth the effort
of the City of Cambridge, driving economic because when we help you get stronger, we all get
prosperity because we know and believe in our a little stronger.
community and fight for it day in and day out.
This organization is about you, our business
We also fight for you day in and day out by changing community, because you make it a better place
the course of public policy to ensure businesses by creating opportunities for people. You, and
have a fighting chance, that entrepreneurship is only you, can keep our community healthy, happy,
honoured and not taken advantage of, and that and safe. Let’s keep working together for at least
the risks local business leaders take every day are another 100 years.
celebrated and encouraged.

Your Chamber of Commerce recognizes there are
still challenges. Red tape, taxes, energy costs, Greg Durocher
labour issues are but a few every business leader President & CEO
faces. Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

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