October 2010 archive

The New York Market: Benjamin Moore

An interesting comment from a New York customer of Winning Colours Stain Remover, who first discovered it at a Benjamin Moore store in Manhattan is that she has both a dog and cat in her apartment, and would prefer not to have traditional solvents around.  New York, and Manhattan in particular, has a particularly high proportion of apartment/condo …

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PRO Group Conference Confirmed

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Shareholder Question: News Release

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Way to Go, Steve Fantus!

A follow-up to my note of October 5th: Things are looking promising for the commencement of a special in-store test of 600 4-oz Winning Colours Stain Remover bottles on hang tags, to be distributed into approximately 50 retail locations in a variety of settings in partnership with a specialized U.S. distributor that services such installations nationally.  …

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Search Engine Advancement Continues

For the first time, Winning Colours Stain Remover now appears in the top 10 earned search results (ie not paid for through advertising)  in some Google searches for the term Stain Remover.  Evidence is attached below as a screen capture in a PDF document.   Google search results are not identical in all jurisdictions.  This search …

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Shareholder Question – Lowes PR

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Lowes: First approval for U.S. advertising

These are localized radio advertising spots, approved for use by Lowes for the first time.  Schedule has not yet been finalized.  It is only part of an introduction of Winning Colours Stain Remover to these communities, with various elements, that will be implemented in stages.  It is only recently that the marketing for Winning Colours Stain …

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Store Locator: Piggly Wiggly

I have requested that our Customer Service Department temporarily put the Piggly Wiggly listings in the background, ie not visible, until we perform an internal audit as to which stores Winning Colours is in.  Each retailer has its own way of doing things – and it is not always possible to obtain clear answers to all …

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Interest in Winning Colours Stain Remover from Non-Traditional Markets

As much as we all look forward to being on the shelves of the major U.S. banners – it is possible that some additional markets may hold pleasant surprises for us.   I note with interest that enquiries are coming in from places that one might not expect – further evidence that the world is more …

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Winning Colours – Reality Check

At Winning Brands, we know the difference between dreaming and planning.  That’s why we place a lot of importance on doing practical things, measuring the results, making adjustments, carrying on.  It’s this type of steady perseverance that is going to deliver the goods in the Winning Colours success story. One such “practical” example is the need …

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Follow-up to the difference in home improvement seasons

On October 10th I pointed out that the Canadian home improvement stores have a shorter “home improvement” season, and that this has an effect upon store traffic.  Today, October 22nd, the first snow arrived in Barrie, Ontario, as shown below.  Most of the U.S. equivalent outlets of the Canadian Home Depot and Lowes stores, where Winning Colours …

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Welcoming Victoria Arrigo to Manufacturing Management

Winning Brands manufacturing is a combination of our own production in Canada (for Canadian and Export demand) and contract manufacturing in the U.S., for U.S. demand.  There are some exceptions depending on the size of production runs, but that is the general arrangement.  In the past, our production volume was not high and the production was …

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WinningColours.com Live

The product specific website for Winning Colours Stain Remover is now live.  Lots of testing going on at the moment.  When platform stability is confirmed, its launch will be formally announced.  Hopefully just a matter of a few hours.  During this time, there are likely to be a few glitches – rest assured, they are …

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Partnership Momentum

It’s really great to see relationships “take hold”.   The relatively long  time that it has taken to gain a foothold in the U.S. market for Winning Colours does have something to do with this factor.  It has taken time to find the key influencers – decision makers who can make a material difference just because of …

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Winning Colours at Better Homes and Gardens Live – Sydney, Australia

Winning Colours Ambassador in Australia, Kori Walsh, has wrapped up a terrific weekend at the Better Homes and Gardens Live home show at Sydney’s Olympic Park venue October 15-17, 2010.  Essential show details here: http://www.bhglive.com.au/visitor-info/about.html The following are some extracts from Kori’s experience: ” Wow!!!!  I am exhausted but had the best show in Sydney …

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New Zealand: Working with Retailers

New Zealand’s Progressive group of grocery stores will be distributing approximately 9,000 sample packs of Winning Colours Stain Remover to households that order groceries on-line.  This will introduce people to Winning Colours, even if they have never heard of it before.  The pack consists of a gift envelope, coated stock introductory sheet printed both sides …

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First Round of Training Completed

Training at Lowes in Heath, Marion and Steubenville Ohio went according to plan this weekend.  The Sunday evening Customer Quality Assurance Report now confirms this.  It even states that a number of bottles of Winning Colours Stain Remover (mix of large and small) were purchased by consumers just through their casual observation of the training.  Our Training Director …

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WinningColours.com

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South Africa Shipment

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Training Going Well

It is not possible for reasons of commercial privacy to provide specific details of the training at Lowes, or other customers, however the following brief extract from today’s Customer Quality Assurance Report assocated with the implementation of such training accurately reflects the tone of the process.   The bottom line is that Winning Colours Stain Remover …

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“Awesome!”

“Awesome!”  …. is the word that our Director of Product Training, Lorne Kelly, used to describe the meet and greet experience yesterday at Lowes in Heath, Ohio where his staff orientation visits began.  He is driving at the moment, so photos and more feedback will be coming later.  Lorne will be in Marion, Ohio on Saturday and Steubenville, …

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Best Wishes, Melissa Maker, for your Audition!

Melissa Maker is the cleaning entrepreneur who coined the phrase “With a thousand uses, there are no excuses!”   referring to Winning Colours Stain Remover.  Melissa’s website describes her business.  It’s a success story. Melissa is now auditioning to become the resident “Cleaning Expert” on the much anticipated Toronto morning show featuring TV and radio personality Marilyn …

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Upcoming Article in Lancaster’s “Sundry Scene Magazine”

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Walmart Canada Update

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Update: In-Store Merchandising

I have previously discussed the fact that the potential for Winning Colours Stain Remover, even in Canada where it began, has barely stratched the surface.  The challenge is to find facts which demonstrate this specific point.  An in-store service call that took place today provides such an illustration. When products are new to the retailer, they …

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Status of Winning Colours Website

The latest information from the site developers: “We’ve successfully worked through and resolved the primary issues on your company’s web server that kept this from moving forward. This week we are working to complete the remaining few tasks. We plan to send you a link for you to review the completed project on Friday morning.” …

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New Zealand Advertising for Winning Colours Stain Remover

The decision by local representation in Australia/New Zealand is to retain some North American materials in the marketing mix, including spoken word pieces.  The attached radio item keeps the American/Canadian naration, but adds New Zealand retailers at Remedial measures are usually suggested tadalafil 20mg mastercard http://robertrobb.com/a-constructive-way-to-rein-in-trump/ after identifying the actual effective dosage, which can take weeks …

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Lowes Training On-Track

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Winning Colours Performance at Spartan

As previously noted, we cannot provide store-by-store, period-by-period sales tallies for reasons of commercial privacy of our customers, however ocassional spot reports that are relevant to the viability of the Winning Colours Stain Remover business plan and therefore of specific interest to our shareholders in these early days of U.S. market development is possible.  A further 4,032 (4 …

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Are there differences between U.S. and Canadian home improvement retailers? How do they affect Winning Brands?

The majority of Winning Brands shareholders reside in the USA.   A question that arises from time to time is whether Winning Colours Stain Remover is likely have the same per-store-turnover figures in the USA home improvement channel compared to Canada. For planning purposes, Winning Brands expects sales results for Winning Colours Stain Remover in the U.S. home improvement retailers to eventually …

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Now that’s a customer!

It would be fascinating to know, just by looking at a person, whether they are a member of the Winning Brands family of customers; but of course that’s impossible.  Nonetheless, situations arise that reveal that this family may be larger than we realize! At dinner last Saturday in a Red Lobster restaurant in Canada, Winning …

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Update: Inventory Bridge with Synergex is Operational

Winning Brands’ primary inventory and logistics arrangements in Canada are at the Mississauga facility of Synergex Logistics, because this location is near the international airport and major highways.  We have started daily use of the newly arranged live inventory bridge by which to manage remote inventory on-line.  The first photo below shows the Synergex facility. …

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Update: DSD Program (Direct Store Delivery)

The vapour barrier shrink wrap has been tested by the DSD Program coordinator. It worked well and thus permits resumption of planning for the DSD Program to the convenience store sector.  The first printing run of the new blue 12-pak display for the 4 fl.oz. bottles is finished.  Samples are being rushed to the coordinator in New …

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Update: Winning Colours at Lancaster National Training Conference

On October 21-22, 2010 Winning Colours Stain Remover will be part of a select group of invited vendors to participate in 2 solid days of product training for the Lancaster sales personnel from across America, including for the first time, the new associates at Five Star Distributing.  Five Star became part of the Lancaster organization …

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What is a clip-strip? Alternative Winning Colours Merchandising

In response to questions about what a “clip-strip” is, the following is a photo of a prototype arrangement of Winning Colours Stain Remover 125 mL (4 fl.oz.) on a clip strip.  We are determining which configuration is most widely used by the retailers that we are likely to do business with.   There are packing Here, the buying …

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StockGoodies.com Interview Listening: No Registration Required

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A Moment to Savour

Thank you to T.W. who shared these photos from his purchase of Winning Colours Stain Remover from the Lowes store in Heath, Ohio, October 1, 2010.  The first picture is of Winning Colours Stain Remover on the shelf at Lowes in the USA.  This is an accomplishment for Winning Brands, but not time to take it …

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Lowes Training Dates: Ohio

Training dates emerging.  Customer preference is for a Friday/Saturday period.  Tentative start dates: October 15/16.  Some in-store demos for customers with table set-up may be permitted at the same time in one or more participating stores.  It’s terrific being able to have operational discussion direct with store personnel now. In view of the importance of this begining,  …

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Lowes Update

The 18 Canadian stores have sold 372 bottles in the first month of having Winning Colours Stain Remover.  There has been no in-store merchandising (ie display racks, consumer demonstrations or special signage. )  The business plan of Winning Brands calls for working up to an average of one bottle per day per store over 5,000 paint/hardware/home …

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