(EPC) firms instead. The Bouchier Group
responded accordingly by forming a part-
nership with Carillion, a support services
company, whose influence extends be-
yond Canada to the United Kingdom, the
Middle East and the Caribbean. The part-
nership was one of the largest changes
the company has been through, but this
integration allowed it to expand its capabil-
ities and compete against the EPC firms,
Bourque-Bouchier said.
Although managed by a board, Bouchier
and Bourque-Bouchier run the day-to-day
operations.
“We said from the onset of the partner-
ship that it wouldn’t be a push-down ap-
proach, but a pull-down—so as we identify
things within the global Carillion group that
we could use, we’ll pull them down into
Bouchier and implement them,” Bourque-
Bouchier said.
Counteracting the industry with strategic
moves is one way to ensure survival in
the business world and that is what the
Bouchier Group continues to do in the
midst of declining oil prices, a crisis which
has impacted all types of businesses. It
has affected growth, Bourque-Bouchier
admitted, but she described the situation
as a “good and bad news story”.
The primary concern is the amount of cost
reductions needed to maintain strong busi-
ness relationships with clients. The com-
pany is taking an innovative approach to
resolving this problem by working on ways
to combine multiple services for an overall
better price. It is easier to incorporate cost
reduction when offering clients several
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