StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring Darling Insurance, PKA SoftTouch, Launch Kawartha and Junior Achievement
/PTBOCanada is delighted to be running StoosNews columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…
Darling Insurance Realty Limited owner Peter Blodgett recently announced five new partners to the ownership of the company.
The young group of partners is made up of Darling Insurance employees: Kyle Bowden, Julie Kellett, Greg Melanson, Julie Poff and Angie White. Established in 1928, Blodgett remains as the Principal Broker while mentoring the partners in the day-to-day operations of the brokerage. Darling Insurance has offices in Peterborough, Omemee and Lakefield, with affiliated offices associated to Sentinel Risk Insurance Group Limited in 6 other areas of southern Ontario.
Congratulations to PKA SoftTouch, the local company owned by Dr. Pankaj Modi and Dick Crawford.
PKA SoftTouch has invented a new Micro-needle that delivers medication with a shallow delivery process with no pain, easy use and no sharp disposal. The Micro-needle has now concluded its veterinary clinical trials at the University of Guelph which showed the technology significantly outperforming the traditional syringe injection. The next step is to explore options for licensing deals.
Launch Kawartha is a dynamic innovation and entrepreneurship centre housing business partners and service providers in the heart of downtown Lindsay.
Opening soon, Launch Kawartha will provide free services and fully furnished incubation workspaces for up to twenty new entrepreneurs. The partners and service providers within the space offer businesses direct access to government funding, finance, marketing and digital media, accounting, legal, IP and the latest in mental health and wellness services, on demand and in real-time. Designed by Kawartha Lakes CFDC, and internally funded by the Kawartha Lakes Business Community Development Corporation, for details visit klcfdc.com/launch-kawartha.
And speaking of CKL, Junior Achievement Northern and Eastern Ontario are bringing their annual Business Hall of Fame event to the City of Kawartha Lakes.
Nominations are now open for the inaugural event with a deadline of Nov. 26, Successful nominees will be announced in January, with a formal induction ceremony in the Spring of next year. For details and nomination forms visit ja-neo.org.
