Business

A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund's pool of burger restaurants has begun to show signs of improvement, although sales of older locations continued to decline compared with a year earlier - only at a slower pace.

Harry Winston Diamond Corp. says the 2012 production target for the Diavik mine has been reduced to 7.4 million carats as the operation shifts its efforts to concentrate on processing higher-valued diamonds.

Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales rose 1.5 per cent to $49.5 billion in August, the highest level since March 2012. The gains mainly came in higher sales in the petroleum and coal products, and vehicle industries.

The EnStream joint venture set up by Canada's three largest mobile phone companies is selling its Zoompass mobile wallet business. It says Paymobile Inc.

Port Alberni firm uses aerospace technology to repair composites

Canadian Pacific (TSX: CP) has appointed members of a senior operations team to oversee new service plans as part of an overhaul of operations following a bruising shareholder battle that saw a new CEO installed earlier this year.

Future Shop and sister company Best Buy Canada plan to hire fewer holiday employees than they did last Christmas, partly due to the trend toward customers shopping online.

Ford is recalling more than 154,000 Fiesta subcompacts to fix a problem with the side airbags, including 28,000 in Canada.

The Queen Victoria Hotel and Suites building is being converted into rental units. Vancouver-based Concert Properties acquired the 47-year-old, eight-storey building at 655 Douglas St. from the Hartnell family this year and took possesion on Friday.

Investors increased the amount of money they put into mutual funds last month than they did a year earlier, according to data compiled by the Investment Funds Institute of Canada. The industry group said net sales totalled $1.