Saying that we are a high tech company is one thing. Having the right people and products to prove
it on a daily basis is another. Having
the advanced business software to facilitate instant and accurate execution is
yet another and we have talked about them all in this blog series. But almost as important as who we are and
what we do and how we do it, is how we look.
It’s one thing to say that we are high tech, but we also have to look
high tech and we go to great pains to project a clean, efficient and
professional image to our customers, suppliers and employees.
In Montreal we have recently moved our office one floor down
from where we have been for the last 21 years.
We elected to stay in St Laurent for a number of reasons, including the
concentration of high tech companies in the area, close proximity to the
airport, good highway access and the fact that we liked the facilities.
Our new office is larger, quieter and more functional than
the space we had before and our Montreal staff are delighted with the new
location. Two new features of Suite 302
include a dedicated reception area, where guests have an opportunity to sit and
relax, as well as a proper training room, where we can meet with customers and
suppliers to discuss new products and/or applications. We have used the move as an occasion to
reclaim and reorganize our Montreal stockroom and this area once again reflects
a cross section of the day to day inventory requirements of the district. If you are ever in the area, we encourage you
to drop in to take a look and say Hi.
At our head office in Oakville, we continue to be more than
satisfied with the location and facilities that we built in 1989. The office has proven to be everything that we
had hoped it would be when we first designed and furnished it, 23 years
ago. Over this period, the shrubs and
trees and garden beds that looked so scrawny and small when they were first
planted are all now full and lush, creating a picturesque sight for anyone
coming to visit. I regularly sit out on
the patio after work just to relax and read the paper and enjoy the beautiful
surroundings. But I am not the only one
making good use of this setting.
Each year, beginning in May and continuing once a month
until at least October, the Oakville BBQ committee organizes a lunchtime feast
out on the patio. While Larry is at the
grill cooking hamburgers, sausages and chicken breasts to perfection, Joan,
Leanne, Debera and Kim are tossing salads, preparing condiments and pouring
drinks at the same time that Roy is setting up the sound system and sun
umbrellas, getting ready for the Bar-B-Que buffet.
We like to have the entire office participate in these
events and encourage all of our field sales reps to plan calls in the area on
these days so that they can drop in at lunch time to enjoy the good food and
music with their friends and colleagues.
In early June of this year, we combined an after work, steak
dinner BBQ with a sales training seminar that we were hosting at the same
time. Participating in this event were
all of our sales reps, including our friends from Montreal, Vancouver, Sarnia,
Hamilton and Cambridge and our lunch room / patio facility is just perfect for
this kind of social gathering.
On June 16, we used our expansive back lawn to host a
multi-employee yard sale. The day turned
out to be hot and sunny and we had a steady stream of bargain hunters arriving
all morning, hoping to find and deal for that one rare or unusual item that
they just couldn’t live without. We were
all set up in time for the early birds who began arriving at 7:00am and by
noon, we were all ‘haggled’ out with nothing left to do but pack up and count
our booty. None of us got rich, but it
was good fun and we all achieved our main objective, that being to purge the
basement, garage or storage closet of years of accumulated treasures.
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