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This week, I presented our Reverse D-Handle Snow Shovels to Kent Building Supplies, the Atlantic Canadian home improvement store.  While in New Brunswick I visited Home Hardware & Benjamin Moore stores.  I joined my Dad & met a local manufacturer to discuss partnering and making more products in Nova Scotia. For over 30 years Kent Building Supplies have been providing service, knowledge & products to Atlantic Canadians accomplishing building and renovation goals. They currently operate 34 locations across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland Labrador & Prince Edward Island.  Each store in the four Atlantic Provinces have a Kent Atlantic Community Fund which focuses to sponsor non-profit events and registered charities that support the growth, development and wellness in their local community. Kent is

This week, I delivered & set-up Trail Blazer Products at Lunenburg Hardware in Lunenburg, NS.  I visited Benjamin Moore stores to research extension poles, including a delivery to Burnside Decorating Centre in Dartmouth, NS.  I volunteered with the Canadian Association of Family Enterprises & the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters. Lunenburg Hardware, like most hardware stores provide assistance with your home repairs and renovations.  They also maintain a complete marine section comprising of paints, boat repair material, charts and buoys.  When I saw the buoys hanging from the rafters, I received that welcoming Nova Scotia port town feeling that Lunenburg is very well known for.  Lunenburg Hardware is part of the BMR group of 187 independent stores in Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime

This week, I delivered & set-up Mark’s Choice pruning equipment at Palmer & Saulnier’s Home Hardware in Berwick & Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.  I visited Benjamin Moore stores to research extension poles. I met with our insurance broker, Sean Murray with W.C.L. Bauld, to discuss what we pay versus industry benchmarks. At Palmer Home Hardware, the term that comes to mind is ”progressive” describing John E. Palmer Building Supplies. The family owned business has a history of keeping up with industry standards.  The company was founded by John and Margaret Palmer as a small outdoor sawmill and eventually expanded to include a small factory which made apple bins and boxes.  Years later the factory converted to making windows sashes and the company

This week, I delivered our Reverse D-Handle Grain Shovel to Co-op Atlantic’s distribution centre in Moncton, New Brunswick.  I joined my team & met with Dale Thibodeau, our BDC consultant, to discuss all the actions that were determined and required to maintain profitability all the time … even slow times. When farmers, in the Mid-West United States, told me they’re getting sore wrists from shoveling grain & poop all day … I took a look at the grain shovel to create the Reverse-D Handle, which is turned 90-degrees & perpendicular to the shovel face.  Now the wrist doesn’t bend, and it allows your forearm to do the lifting.  I was excited when we got rave reviews in the mid-west.  I’m now excited again, our

This week, I continued to deliver & set-up Mark’s Choice pruning equipment at Payzant & Proudfoot Home Hardware in Lower Sackville & New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. I met with the Halifax Chamber of Commerce & the Greater Halifax Partnership to research how they could contribute to our continuous improvement efforts. We now have successfully set up our assortments of pruning tools and are ready for spring season in eight different Co-op Country Store, four Home Hardware Stores and seven Kent Building Supplies locations across Atlantic Canada, including the two most recent Home Hardware locations in Lower Sackville & New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.  We will look more locations to set up assortments of pruning tools in the coming weeks.  Payzant & ProudfootHome Hardware are