Monthly Archives: February 2012

This week, I continued to send information about Trail Blazer’s 4 foot assortment and point of purchase signage displaying pruning tools & trail maintenance tools. I delivered & set-up our products at Home Hardware in Greenwood, Nova Scotia. I received news form Home Hardware’s head office in St. Jacobs Ontario. I set up my second Home Hardware assortment this week in Greenwood, Nova Scotia. This growth may never have happened without our first assortment, I set up in Wolfville, Nova Scotia on a 4 foot wall space. I would like to take this opportunity to thank RafuseHome Hardware for all their support & thank Greenwood Home Hardware for continuing my dream. The assortment in Greenwood was slightly different because they provided me with two 3

This week I continued sending information about Trail Blazer’s 4-foot assortment & signage of pruning tools (including Mark’s Choice branded tools for Home Hardware) and continued booking appointments for delivery & set-up. I have deliveries scheduled to begin next week with both Home Hardware stores & Coop Atlantic Country Stores. The production of Trail Blazer’s Jumbo Ratcheting Anvil Lopper continued, while Robert and his team try to take care of customers waiting for deliveries. We were scheduled to deliver in January and a month later we’re scrambling to deliver half the orders … Yes, only half, the second half is still waiting for components that we suspect will arrive in early March. The team has worked very hard this week, to produce &

This week I started sending information about Trail Blazer’s 4-foot assortment of pruning tools (including Mark’s Choice branded tools for Home Hardware) and started booking appointments for delivery & set-up. I delivered more of our Reverse D-Handle Grain Shovels to Scotian Gold Country Store and replacement blades for Blomidon Nurseries. Acklands-Grainger continues to expand its market position by understanding and satisfying the needs of our customers. They’re Canada’s largest distributor of industrial products, offering the convenience of a single source. With the largest selection of products from the world’s top manufacturers (I’m proud they included Trail Blazer products). Headquartered in Richmond Hill, Ontario, 170 branches across Canada, 6 distribution centers and more than 2,200 dedicated team members. As I focus on the

This week continuous improvement continued. I provided our BDC consultant some information required to prepare for profitability training starting next week. Robert Woodman completed an application for provincial support, for more lean training in April. We prepare for store visits, hoping to start next week, to prepare for spring season. 17 years ago (February 1995), I started selling the Trail Blazer Saw (now known as the Take-Down Buck Saw). Along with my dad’s invention, the Xtend-A-Saw; a folding saw equipped with a threaded socket into the bottom of the handle, to accommodate any universal threaded pole (Broom handle) which instantly turns this into a pruning saw for high out of reach areas. Today, Trail Blazer’s Nova Scotia made products are supported by retailers, including Home