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Welcome to the ToolBox, your portal to WRLA member news and information within the LBM market.
We invite you to learn more about what's going on within your association and the companies whose products and/or services you utilize.
Our Association’s Greatest Honour - Watch now to find out who the 43rd WRLA Annual Industry Achievement Award Recipient is!
WRLA T.V is a great place to find out what's happening in your Industry!
Breaking News | Industry Annoucements | Highlights from Industry Events | Advertising | New Products | Helpful Tips
CLICK HERE for our Media Kit and to find out how you can advertise on WRLA T.V!
CLICK HERE to Watch Now!
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2014 WRLA Prairie Showcase Buying Show
January 22-24, 2014
Saskatoon, SK
REGISTER NOW - CLICK HERE
For all Show Details and to Register Now!
Interactive Floorplan Now Available!
All information regarding the show can be found on our website at www.wrla.org/prairie-showcase
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TWO Chances to win a $500 VISA Gift Card
As a valued member of WRLA we want to hear your thoughts on the communications that we offer. We have 2 surveys that we would appreciate your response on.
Upon completion of either or both surveys you will be entered to win
$500 VISA Gift Cards!
The first survey will help us determine how we can improve the benefits of your membership through our communication offerings including: Yardstick magazine, Toolbox eNewsletter, the Membership Directory, WRLA TV, and our website. This will take no more than 7 minutes to complete and you will be entered to win a $500 Visa Gift Card.
The second survey will provide us some insight on your needs in regards to promoting your brand. This will help us determine how to better serve you as an advertising medium in our multiple communications. This will take no more than 5 minutes to complete and you will be entered to win a $500 Visa Gift Card.
Thank you in advance for your participation and continued support. We value our members and our aim is to continue to improve the ways in which we serve you.
*If either of these surveys should go to someone else, please forward on. Thank you.*
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Kiah Hildebrand – Canadian Lumber Timbr-Mart – Winkler, MB
in commemoration of Ed Smith, formerly of Smith's Lumber Yards
Alisha McEwan - McMunn & Yates – Brandon, MB
in commemoration of Brian Smith of McMunn & Yates
Aidan Crawford - King Marketing Ltd, - Richmond, BC
in commemoration of the late Bill Bowie of Arctic Inland Building Supplies
Drake Cornell - Westrum Lumber Ltd. – Rouleau, SK
in commemoration of Dwight Dixon of Chatterson Lumber
Miranda A. Halladay - Creative Door Services – Saskatoon, SK
in commemoration of Terry Silverson of Security Building Supplies
Kyle Stratechuk - Simpson Strong-Tie Canada Ltd. - Maple Ridge, BC
in commemoration of Larry Wagner formerly of North American Lumber
Samantha Allegro – Johns Manville – Winnipeg, MB
in commemoration of the late Bob Mondy of The Sexton Group
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WRLA Office will be Closed:
Tuesday December 24th - Wednesday January 1st, 2014
Regular Office hours will resume on Thursday January 2nd, 2014.
From everyone at the WRLA office we wish you a safe and happy holiday!
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Got News? Share it with us! And always watch for new videos and updates from the WRLA!
  
Help us get the word out about OUR Industry!
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Platinum Sponsors
Castle Building Centres
JELD-WEN
Sexton Group Ltd.
Diamond Sponsors
Regal Ideas
TIM-BR Mart
Gold Sponsors
All Weather Windows
Home Hardware Stores Limited
iRecycel
Lancashire Distribution
RONA
Taiga
ProfitMaster Canada
Silver Sponsors
All Fab Building Components
Can-Cell Industries Inc.
Steel-Craft Door Products Ltd.
Naylor Publishing
Bronze Sponsors
Alexandria Moulding
Alliance Door
CanWel Building Materials Division
Cherry Insurance
DelRoc
Duchesne et Fils ltee
Euro-Rite Cabinets Limited
Harris Rebar
Johns Manville
Morneau Shepell
National Forrest Products
Olfa
Quikrete/Taget Products
Resisto
Seljax
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The bustle of the holiday buying season means more customers will likely be coming through your doors. To ensure the safety and security of your store during the busy holiday season, having the proper crowd control procedures in place is vital.
Your crowd control strategy should include these three steps:
• Remind and retrain all employees about your store’s emergency plan to address potential risks facing workers and customers.
• Dedicate a knowledgeable employee to communicate and manage crowds from arrival to departure.
• Establish clear protocols for conflict resolution. Giving employees the authority and tools to calm frustrated shoppers is important, especially if the need to diffuse a situation presents itself.
This Holiday Selling Season, Try a Gift Niche
Many consumers are out scouting stores in search of the perfect unique gift for everyone on their list. Consider adding a novel product niche to your store.
Determining the right gift niche for your market takes a bit of research. Work with your distributor or co-op to scope out the local competition and ask your customers what they’d like to see in your store. You might even poll your employees to find out what products customers have been telling them they’d like to see you sell as well. Start by selling a few of those items to see what demand is like, then keep rotating displays and add different inventory often to keep gift shoppers coming back.
WRLA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NRHA
The goal of the North American Retail Hardware Association is to help independent hardware and home improvement retailers become better and more profitable merchants through a wide array of educational and training programs, financial management resources, and human resource tools that are all available online. WRLA members get unlimited access to a full range of training and management services when they join NRHA through the WRLA.
Visit www.wrla.org or CLICK HERE for more information about NRHA.
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"All Weather Windows is committed to providing energy efficient products that reduce environmental impact and reduce heating costs for our customers." said Tracy Nadiger, Director of Marketing. "We're extremely proud to be recognized by an organization that enables Canadians to save their hard-earned money and protect the environment at the same time."
The ENERGY STAR Market Transformation Awards recognize outstanding utility providers, manufacturers, retailers, advocates and home builders who have led their respective industries in the pursuit of energy efficient products and processes. The ENERGY STAR® mark serves to help consumers recognize manufacturers and products that are leaders in energy efficiency. Canadians purchase millions of ENERGY STAR-qualified products from over 1,800 ENERGY STAR participant organizations.
All Weather Windows was named ENERGY STAR Manufacturer of the Year in the Fenestration Products category in 2010 and 2011, and Participant of the Year in 2012.
About All Weather Windows
All Weather Windows is Canada's largest privately owned window and door manufacturer. Launched in 1978 in a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Edmonton, Alberta, the company has since expanded to nine branches and over 1,000 dealers nationwide. Our two leading edge manufacturing plants in Edmonton and Mississauga produce a full range of award-winning window and door products for dealers, builders, contractors and homeowners. Recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for four years running, All Weather Windows has also given back over $1 million dollars annually for the past seven years in windows and door products to Habitat for Humanity across Canada.
About ENERGY STAR®
ENERGY STAR originated in the United States and has been administered in Canada since 2001 by Natural Resources Canada in full collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency. Since 2005, Canadians can also choose ENERGY STAR-qualified homes that are designed and built to achieve maximum energy efficiency making it easy for businesses and consumers to save money and protect the environment.
SOURCE All Weather Windows Ltd.
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DUBLIN, Calif., December 3, 2013 -- Epicor BisTrack is a business management solution designed to help pro-dealers and distributors of lumber, building materials and construction supplies better manage all aspects of their businesses. The new release of Epicor BisTrack takes full advantage of .NET to give users more control over how they view and work with their data. The updated and familiar Windows® interface promises to improve productivity and shorten training time. The innovative user interface gives users the ability to organize their screens with customizable ribbon bars, context-sensitive grid control, and personal Favorites lists.
"Epicor BisTrack being .NET makes all the difference in the world to us," said Tyler Banken, IT director for Dunn Lumber of Seattle, a BisTrack 4.0 beta site. "It allows us to bring in other resources, as well as use additional plug-ins to make it easier to deploy new features and functions. Switching to .NET is going to pay off dividends in the long run as far as sustainability of the application."
The new version of Epicor BisTrack also includes a number of other features that will appeal to different lumber and building materials dealers. The product now allows users to insert Added-Value Order (AVO) price and time into a sales order, schedule work orders and sales orders together, and share these times with the work crew via an Outlook calendar. For distributors and dealers with multiple locations, Epicor also added tools to better coordinate and optimize the movement of inventory between branches. Roofing, siding and drywall suppliers will appreciate BisTrack’s new pricing and discounting options that aid in managing extensive product variations and pricing models. Other new features include added support for Tim-BR Mart promotional programs, and the ability to promote products and services at the point of sale through configurable customer-facing displays.
"Epicor BisTrack is built on a flexible technology infrastructure that allows Epicor to easily adapt it to the changes in technology and keeps BisTrack a feature-rich system that takes full advantage of the latest technology advancements," said Steve Bieszczat, senior vice president, automotive and marketing for Epicor. "When you have this dedication to innovation and marry it with the biggest, most stable technology vendor in the LBM market, you have an unbeatable combination."
For additional information regarding Epicor BisTrack, please contact your Epicor representative, call Epicor toll-free at (888) 463-4700, or email lumber@epicor.com.
About Epicor Software Corporation
Epicor Software Corporation is a global leader delivering inspired business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. With over 40 years of experience serving small, midmarket and larger enterprises, Epicor has more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries. Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP), retail management software, supply chain management (SCM), and human capital management (HCM) enable companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability. With a history of innovation, industry expertise and passion for excellence, Epicor provides the single point of accountability that local, regional and global businesses demand. The Company’s headquarters are located in Dublin, California, with offices and affiliates worldwide. For more information, visit www.epicor.com.
Follow Epicor on Twitter @Epicor, @Epicor_Insights, @EpicorUK, @EpicorEMEA, @EpicorANZ, @EpicorLAC, @Epicor_Retail, @Epicor_DIST, @EpicorPrcsMFG and Facebook.
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Epicor, BisTrack, and the Epicor logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Epicor Software Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. The product and service offerings depicted in this document are produced by Epicor Software Corporation.
Contact: Lisa Preuss Rick Fernandez
Senior Director, Corporate Communications Fernandez PR
Epicor Software Corporation (on behalf of Epicor)
+1 949 585 4235 +1 770 973 8401
lpreuss@epicor.com rick@fernandez-pr.com
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January 22 - 24, 2014
WRLA Prairie Showcase
Prairieland Park - Saskatoon, Sk
ckelly@wrla.org
To view the complete Events Calendar CLICK HERE
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2013-2014 WRLA DIRECTORY & Product Source Guide
Page 119
NEW NAME: Falcon Equipment (formerly Excalibur Equipment)
NEW CONTACT: Gary Moore
NEW EMAIL: gary@falconequip.com
Toll Free Phone: 855-955-4266
Page 128
NAME: Mainframe Associates
NEW MAILING ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 195
Nanaimo Station "A"
Nanaimo, BC V9R 5K9
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NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBER
Ecofitt Corporation (Head Office)
5690 McAdam Rd.
Mississauga, ON L4Z 1T2
Phone: 905-602-4981
Toll Free: 877-326-3488
Fax: 905-290-0262
Main Contact: Roger Skyers
info@ecofitt.ca
www.ecofitt.ca
(Distributor) (Wholesaler) water, electrical and conservation products, showerheads, toilets
Ecofitt Corporation (Branch)
#4 - 980 Lorimer Boulevard
Winnipeg, MB R3P 1C8
Phone: 204-975-4964
Toll Free: 877-326-3488
Main Contact: Scott Sanders
Scott.sanders@ecofitt.ca
www.ecofitt.ca
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Support your association and broadcast your business to hundreds of decision-makers in the lumber industry. Advertising opportunities are still available in several WRLA publications:
The YardStick: The YardStick is sent to more than 1,200 members firms every other month. Advertising in the largest issue of The YardStick, the Prairie Showcase edition, is a great way to reinforce your marketing message with hundreds of decision-makers who regularly read this magazine while supporting WRLA. Ads booked within the print edition automatically appear (linked to the website or email of your choice) in the digital edition, which is read by more than 500 visitors each issue. Exclusive online ad positions are also available within every digital edition.
The Toolbox: Delivered directly to the inboxes of more than 1,200 lumber managers and professionals, this weekly e-newsletter offers consistent access to the individuals who rely on your products and services to run their businesses.
Directory & Product Source Guide: WRLA is the largest retail lumber association on the Prairies, with its membership representing 85% of the industry. All of our members are included in this annual directory and all keep this publication handy year-round. Make sure your business stands out in this resource by purchasing a display advertisement.
WRLA.org: Our website average more than 3,000 visits per month! Advertising space is available on the home and sub-pages of WRLA.org. Ads rotate on the home page and sub pages, expanding your exposure to site visitors at an affordable price.
WRLA-TV: Introducing the NEW WRLA-TV Banner Sponsorship. Our online TV and banners offer your brand high visibility on the WRLA homepage. Your branding and action oriented banner is featured every time WRLA-TV’s videos are played by our audience, leaving them one-click away from your website‘s landing page.
For more information about these opportunities, click here for the media kit or contact:
Kim Davies
Project Manager
(800) 665-2456, ext. 423
kdavies@naylor.com
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