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Food in Canada Magazine: Trading Up
Food in Canada Magazine: Trading Up

You’ve just finished your annual Halloween promotion, with your products decked out in suitably spooky packaging. But it looks as if sales this year were no ...

Financial Post: Anatomy of a Culture C
Financial Post: Anatomy of a Culture Change

Active International, founded by two former New York media employees in 1985, had a unique business model, in that it was based on creating leverage for its ...

CPA Magazine: Trade Secrets
CPA Magazine: Trade Secrets

Want to improve the bottom line without affecting cash flow?  Corporate barter is an increasingly popular solution among Canadian companies. Hubert Wa ...

MM&D Magazine: Reaching Higher &#
MM&D Magazine: Reaching Higher – Supply Chain Vision 2015

Need a little inspiration? Looking to boost your business in 2015? Dip into our tip jar to find the idea that will help you contain costs and ...

Media in Canada: Lindt changes its Eas
Media in Canada: Lindt changes its Easter strategy

The chocolate-maker is aiming to create an iconic character out of its gold bunny with the launch of an interactive storybook app. Lindt has set the bar hi ...

MM&D Magazine: Rest Easy –
MM&D Magazine: Rest Easy – Cost Saving Roundtable

Each time we ask MM&D readers “What keeps you up at night?” we hear the same response. Controlling costs in warehouse and DC operations is con ...

Strategy Magazine: Inside Active ROI G
Strategy Magazine: Inside Active ROI Guarantee

Active International, the established 33-year-old corporate trade company, is probably best known for its inventory trade-in program, which works with media ...

Supply Chain Canada Magazine: Trading
Supply Chain Canada Magazine: Trading Up in the ‘What’s Next’ Economy

Corporate trade is key to solving supply chain challenges with minimal risk to inventory By Andrew Bulmer, President and Managing Director, Active Internat ...

Press Release: iNvolved Media’s
Press Release: iNvolved Media’s Global Expansion Leads to New Strategic Canadian Hire

Karim Kanji to Lead Canadian Growth in Partnership with Active International   (Toronto, ON) March 2, 2016 - iNvolved Media, a New York based so ...

Marketing Magazine – Bringing Ba
Marketing Magazine – Bringing Back Barter

In 2003, the U.S. arm of Pinnacle Foods, which owns a variety of well-known consumer brands including Duncan Hines, Hungry-Man and the syrup brand Log ...

Globe & Mail: Six lessons profes
Globe & Mail: Six lessons professionals learned from flexible workspaces

The transition from a traditionally structured workspace with assigned desks and offices to a flexible environment of hot desking and shared spaces often ra ...

Press Release: Active International sh
Press Release: Active International shortlisted as finalist for the Employee Recommended Workplace Award

Award Presented By Morneau Shepell & The Globe and Mail    (Toronto, ON) March 30, 2017 – Canada's leading corporate trade company ...