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Winalta Inc. Announces Appointment Of Senior Officers.


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Winalta Inc. is pleased to announce that Blair Halliday, MBA MBA
abbr.
Master of Business Administration

Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business
Master in Business, Master in Business Administration
, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
. Mr. Halliday joined Winalta Inc. in 2001 after a 20-year career in a senior role with one of Canada's major banking institutions.

Winalta also announced that Mike Fekete, C.A., Controller has been promoted to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Fekete obtained his C.A. designation in 1996 after articling with Price Waterhouse. Prior to joining Winalta he held a position of Controller with a private brokerage firm.

Mr. J.A. Sapara advises that these recent executive appointments fit with our growth strategy and provide the company with the necessary expertise to help achieve our goals.

Winalta Inc. is a leading manufacturer of building products serving the Western Canadian marketplace. Activities include manufactured homes, modular homes, on site built homes and laminated insulation products used in the building industry. The company also recently announced its involvement in the opening of a 200,000 sq ft manufactured housing Manufactured housing (also known as prefab housing) is a type of housing unit that is largely assembled in factories and then transported to sites of use.

In the United States, the term "manufactured home" specifically refers to a house built entirely in a protected
 plant in Linton, Indiana For other uses, see Linton.

Linton is a city in Greene County, Indiana, United States. The population was 5,774 at the 2000 census. A coal mining town, it is located southeast of Terre Haute, Indiana. The current mayor is Tom Jones.
. Winalta is also active in developing manufactured home communities and currently have five projects underway in Fort McMurray, Sherwood Park, Irricana, Stony Plain and Sanford, Manitoba.

All of the company's homes and insulation building products in Canada are CSA (1) (Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario, www.csa.ca) A standards-defining organization founded in 1919. It is involved in many industries, including electronics, communications and information technology.  certified and distributed through independent or corporately owned distributors across Western Canada. Winalta's home manufacturing plant is based in Edmonton, Alberta and the insulation manufacturing/lamination plant is based in Calgary, Alberta.

Winalta Inc. shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange TSX Venture Exchange

Originally called the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX), this was a result of the merger of the Vancouver and Alberta stock exchanges. The goal of TSX Venture Exchange is to provide venture companies with effective access to capital while protecting investors.
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