Garneau Group

Garneau Group is a Canadian capital investment firm that owns and runs a small set of operating businesses. It was set up as the holding company for Capital Resources Group (CRG), and its main line today is workforce management for employers, alongside childcare and residential property.

What Garneau Group offers

• Nuclear industry staffing — through CRG Energy Projects Inc., recruitment and placement of staff for nuclear sector projects.
• Outsourced payroll — running payroll on behalf of client organisations.
• Contractor workforce management — handling contract workers for clients, including funding arrangements for staffing.
• Authorised Training Supervisors — CRG Energy became a vendor to OPG to supply these supervisors.
• Childcare — Little Beginnings Daycare and Learning Centres run licensed child care plus before- and after-school programmes.
• Residential property — Hillside Blue Mountain, a group of all-season townhomes near the Village at Blue Mountain.

Who it works with

The staffing and payroll businesses serve employers in the energy sector, with the nuclear industry named directly. The group describes its aim as being the single partner a client uses for workforce management.

Key facts

• Based in: Ontario, Canada, with offices in Kincardine and Whitby
• Group companies: CRG Energy Projects Inc., Little Beginnings Daycare and Learning Centres, Hillside Blue Mountain
• Recognition: listed in rankings of Canada's fastest growing companies; CRG Energy won a business of the year award