Jan 30
As recently mentioned, awareness of Winning Colours Stain Remover is growing amongst management of America’s finest home improvement retailers. As a result of our being short- listed recently, intensive preparations are underway here to be ready to “hit the ground running” IF we are a finalist in this case. The next “face to face” meeting with personnel of such a company …
Jan 26
www.Chartpoppers.com has requested a follow-up interview for their website. This will take place on February 1st. I do not know whether this will be live, or posted later to their website. The interview time has just been agreed to.
Jan 23
Question: What is the status of sales to the government? Answer: As a basic business development strategy, Winning Brands has always been interested in qualifying as a supplier to the U.S. government. The first attempt was to approach military procurement channels through intermediaries. Some progress had been made, but in my estimation, the outcome was …
Jan 20
The formal Purchase Order is in hand today, specifiying delivery of the first few thousand bottles to Manhattan for the Duane Reade launch. The P.O. specifies delivery in the first week of February. I mention this because the tentative target was sometime in January. It is tremendous to see things otherwise moving forward as planned. This view of …
Jan 19
An update to the post of December 4, 2010 By reference to Google Analytics, it would appear that the use of this weblog is increasing. We have been visited here 11,445 times, of which the majority represent repeat visits by approximately 1,350 people, who have made 16,689 page views. Of these repeat visitors 856 are in …
Jan 19
An increasing number of retailers are recognizing the impact of our displays in their product turns. To maximize market penetration for our display fixtures, a brand new unit has been prototyped for deployment into all stores, regardless of store size, that will accept delivery of same. The unit accommodates the three primary sizes of Winning …
Jan 14
I would like our “longs”, ie the investors who have been with the firm as a long term holding, to know that I understand the appeal that some positive news releases would have right now. I understand the view that this could bring greater awareness to the company and stimulate buying of shares perhaps. I too …
Jan 11
I am in the vendor waiting area for a chain to whom a Winning Colours presentation is about to be given. I was checking in on my e-mails from an Office Services Area that is provided, and received the following testimonial about Winning Colours from a local distributor. It’s a nice thing to get when going …
Jan 08
It would seem that the issues which may have appeared insurmountable, may not be after all, through improved understanding. It has now been determined that neither dissatisfaction with Winning Colours, nor its sales volume, was the reason for the pause of ordering in 2010. Maintaining mutually profitable arrangements is at the heart of the discussion. The interested parties are examining what supply-chain arrangements …
Jan 08
The current share count includes stock issued to reduce debt in Q4. These arrangements, and goodfaith negotiations with stakeholders, have resulted also in a reduction of financing interest costs, both retroactively and going forward. This will be reflected in the year-end financials.
Jan 08
We will schedule the next conference call in connection with the completion of the year-end report. There will be much to discuss at that time because projects that are being developed on a currently confidential basis can be more thoroughly talked about at that time. Our customers do not like advance descriptions being provided in a public environment of …
Jan 08
Winning Brands has been ready to do its part to implement the launch, however we have been awaiting the product identification number issued by the customer’s parent company, Walgreens. ( The Product Number is additional to the Vendor Number recently issued to us by them). This product identification number was received Friday afternoon, and will permit the wheels to resume turning at Duane Reade. …
Jan 05
Do you think that a man who has been detailing cars for 20 years knows a thing or two about what works? A man who has access to anything he wants or needs to clean-up everything you can dream up? A man who was so fed up with the vandalism on his shop sign, that …
Jan 03
We have a Customer Service Assistant, Monique, contact stores on a regular basis in order to confirm whether they carry Winning Colours Stain Remover, so that our store counts can be as accurate as possible. The net figures that are on the Store Locator, reflecting any adjustments as at January 1, 2011 are below. This does …
