The Lethbridge Region Economic Recovery Task Force has released the results of a survey completed by business owners during the COVID-19 crisis.
The survey received 256 responses between April 9 and 20. “Seventy-four of those came from within the region, and the remainder — 182 — came from within the city of Lethbridge itself,” said Trevor Lewington, CEO of Economic Development Lethbridge, on Friday.
Of those respondents, the task force classified 75 per cent as small businesses, with fewer than 20 employees, and 21 per cent as medium-sized businesses with 20 to 99 workers.
Fifty-one per cent of the businesses that took the survey have reduced staff. One of those businesses is O2 Training Centre, where owner and head trainer Justin