Headlines from this weeks SPEC

May 13, 2002

CHANDLER:
Buisinessmen from Montreal want to invest $4.5 million in a bottling plant
Gilles Gagne
Three businessmen from Montreal want to invest $4.5 million in a bottling plant that would be built in the Chandler area. Using water from a natural spring, they would like to produce juice, beverages, liquor and water. About 40 jobs could be created.
The spokesperson of Breuvages Gaspesie is a City of Montreal municipal councillor, Nicolas Tetrault, the youngest member of the council, representing Plateau Mont-Royal. He is also the manager of a marketing firm, Groupe Hubris. His two partners are Robert Nastas, owner of Proc Data, and Pradeep Sagar, who owns a number of small companies employing 250 people. Mr. Sagar would be the owner of more than half of Breuvages Gaspesie shares.

500 jobs available in the Gaspe this year, 60 of them in New Richmond' Smurfit-Stone mill
Gilles Gagne

CARLETON - The 70 companies, organizations and institutions which participated last week at the Salon de la formation, de l'entrepreneurship et de l'emploi of the Gaspe Peninsula have 500 jobs to offer this year in the region. The Smurfit-Stone linerboard mill in New Richmond has to replace 60 people this year alone. These employees are all retiring in 2002.

Bell QuŽbec installs fiber optics between Cross Point and GaspŽ
About $4 million invested

NEW RICHMOND - Bell Quebec, a subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises, is currently installing fiber optics between Cross Point and Gaspe. This $4 million investment is aimed at attracting about 3000 new clients to the 20 million Bell already has in the country.

This new fiber optics line will complete a $25 million capital investment started by Bell Quebec at the end of 1999, in order to include in its network territories where telecommunication services were traditionally offered by Telus, formerly known as Quebectel. Some parts of the Beauce, Portneuf, but mainly Lower St. Lawrence and the Gaspe Peninsula are now directly linked to Bell Canada.