Helen Klengenberg is expanding her 100 per cent Inuit-owned business by opening a print shop in Iqaluit. But she won't move from Rankin Inlet -- she enjoys the fishing and outdoor life there too much. - NNSL file photo

Helen Klengenberg started a financial and management and consulting business in 1996 and launched Akhaliak Promotional Products last May.

She now contracts suppliers to make "anything and everything to promote a business."

Part of her job involves facilitating workshops and community consultations. While doing this, Klengenberg recognized a great demand for printed material in Nunavut.

"I saw it could be a thriving business up here," she said.

So she's scouting locations in Iqaluit for her upcoming printing shop.

"We're looking at expanding the business instead of getting material printed in the South," she said.

Klengenberg chose Iqaluit over Rankin Inlet because of its larger customer base.

And, she said, she's getting fed up with the business climate in Rankin.

Moving into an office is too expensive, she explained, so she runs both her current businesses from her Rankin home even though she's running out of space.

"For any new business or home owner, the municipality charges a development fee of $40,000," she said. "It's crazy. It doesn't invite development in our community."

Klengenberg's sales manager, Michelle Klengenberg, will manage the printing shop and Akhaliak Promotional Products in Iqaluit.