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 Sweeper Parts Mississauga - The city of Mississauga is situated within Southern Ontario in the western part of the GTA, or Greater Toronto Area, and part of the Regional Municipality of Peel. Mississauga City has doubled its population each decade for the last two decades and continues to grow. The city of Mississauga is the third most populous city on the Great Lakes and Canada's sixth most densely inhabited municipality with a population of 734,000. Between the year 1986 and the year 1991, Mississauga City had the largest growth in population of whichever city in Canada. Population growth has slowed somewhat after that, though a sustained growth in population continues. Residents of the city are called Mississaugans.
The growth of Mississauga is mainly because of it being a main suburb of Toronto. Mississauga City however is not just a mere bedroom community. There is a great deal of corporate and industrial development, which provides plenty of employment opportunities. The city has succeeded in creating a distinctive image for itself over the past decade. An international architectural design competition held in the year 2006 for two condominium towers, called Absolute World, created an iconic landmark for the city. The towers, which are almost completed, are the tallest to be found within whatever Canadian suburban city.
The very accessible markets of Mississauga make it ideal for major domestic markets within Midwestern and Northeastern United States and Canada. Situated in the city limits is the Toronto Pearson International Airport and five major freeways. Mississauga's big financial/corporate district has the Canadian headquarters of such major international Fortune 500 companies as General Electric, Fujitsu, Wal-Mart Canada, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Intuit Canada and Siemens. In truth, more than 60 of the Fortune 500 base their Canadian or global headquarters in this city.
Burgeoning trades comprise finance and banking, pharmaceuticals, electronics and computers, transportation parts and equipment industries. Financial sector companies include Citibank Canada, which has two corporate IT development centres within Mississauga, and TD Bank Financial, that has three Corporate IT development centres there. Retail is another strong sector. Mississauga boasts the second-biggest shopping mall of the Greater Toronto Area, Square One Shopping Centre. The city is currently free of debt, even though it might have to borrow money for new capital projects during 2012.
Various airlines have their head office in Mississauga, comprising Kam Air, Air Georgian and Air Canada Jazz, which likewise runs a regional office in the city.
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