Firm projects growth on heels of Mr. Lube expansion.Pull into a Mr. Lube franchise somewhere in Canada and chances are there is a Sault Ste. Marie Sault Sainte Marie — pronounced "Soo Saint Marie" (IPA /su seɪnt məˈɹi/) — is the name of two cities on the Saint Marys River, which forms part of the boundary between the United States and Canada. connection. A small metal fabricating firm in the Batchewana First Nation's Blue Heron blue heron n. Any of several varieties of heron with blue or blue-gray plumage. Industrial Park holds the exclusive contract to supply Canada's largest quick-oil-change vehicle service company with the aluminum awnings for all its present and future franchises for the next decade. Bill Stevenson For the football player of the same name see Bill Stevenson (football player). John William Stevenson (born September 10, 1963 in Torrance, California), better known as Bill Stevenson, is an American musician. Industries has gone from making a few thousand dollars in revenues in each of the first couple of years to $600,000 during 2003, the third year of supplying 89 franchises across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. . Stevenson, a Mr. Lube franchise owner in Dartmouth, NS and Moncton, NB, saw the need for a consistent look among its franchises and created the small entity four years ago. He acquired the contract to fabricate Mr. Lube awnings and picked out a central Canada Central Canada (sometimes the Central provinces) is a region comprised of Canada's two largest and most populous provinces: Ontario and Quebec. Central Canada, with the four Atlantic provinces, form Eastern Canada. location in the Blue Heron Industrial Park on the Rankin Reserve in the Sault, settling into a 5,000-square-foot shop in the Reserve's Blue Heron Industrial Park. James Kent James Kent (July 31, 1763 Doansburg, Putnam County, New York – December 12, 1847 New York City) was an American jurist and legal scholar. Life He graduated from Yale College in 1781, having helped establish the Phi Beta Kappa society there in 1780, and began to , who manages the small three-employee shop for Stevenson, met the East Coast entrepreneur in 1986 while on a construction job in Saskatchewan and later worked with him again on other contracting jobs in Vancouver. Kent, who has family connections in the Sault area, says the city was an easy choice to locate as a central point to ship products to franchises in Vancouver or Montreal. "The cost of living here is low, the cost of the shop is incredibly low, Sault Ste. Marie has a trained labour force through Algoma Steel ''See also Algoma (Disambiguation) Algoma Steel Corporation (TSX: AGA) was founded in 1902 by Francis Clergue, an American entrepreneur who had settled in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. ... and most of the suppliers are hungry for work," says Kent who grew up east of the Sault in Echo Bay. With the help of a welder and a part-time labourer, they construct the aluminum frame trusses, hook up the electrical system and cover the 45-foot frame with a vinyl material called Cooley Brite, a laminated polyester fabric. The company expects to produce 20 awnings this year at $10,000 a piece and Mr. Lube plans on expanding to 10 new stores a year for the next decade. Stevenson Industries also picked up a structural steel contract from Mr. Lube, supplying catwalks and basement grates at $30,000 a piece, their bulk waste oil tanks at $20,000 each and the on-site piping at $15,000 to $20,000 per unit. Kent's brother Peter pitched in and opened up a nearby graphics business to do awning lettering and pocketed $60,000 in revenues last year. By IAN ROSS Northern Ontario Business Northern Ontario Business is a Canadian magazine, which publishes monthly in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The magazine covers business news and issues in Northern Ontario. |
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