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I am a loyal long who just sold off the last fo my holdings that originally was over 1M shares when the price was actually measured in single and double 00's. The final 300K shares sold for $60 yesterday. Fortunately these were free and clear shares from the last run up in stok price 2 years ago or so Just thought I would get the last litle bit before whatever happens next. Good luck to all who still hold.
Is anyone else having problems accessing the CEO Blog on the company's website? I have not been able to access it for over a week.
I go there every week in Syracuse. Now I will be able to get product a mile from home.
Press Release Source: Winning Brands Corporation On Wednesday September 1, 2010, 2:52 pm
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Winning Brands Corporation (Pink Sheets: WNBD; Frankfurt: WMU), www.WinningBrands.com, manufacturer of Winning Colours Stain Remover, World's Most Versatile Cleaning Solution!™, confirms the listing of Winning Colours by Canada's foremost auto parts specialty chain, PartSource, www.PartSource.ca; a development considered by Winning Brands to be a precursor to operations in the U.S. auto parts sector. PartSource is a unit of Canadian Tire - one of Canada's most shopped retailers with more than 58,000 employees across the organization.
The listing is the result of excellent experience with Winning Colours at the local level, on a long term test basis, to determine the viability of Winning Colours Stain Remover in the auto parts retail setting. The PartSource system-wide listing is helpful to Winning Brands' expansion across auto related retail and distribution channels in several ways. Winning Brands' Director of Training, Lorne Kelly, explains: "Winning Colours Stain Remover is a professional strength product; that's the first thing to bear in mind. Although consumers have access to it, Winning Colours is good enough for professionals. So for Winning Colours to emerge as a cleaning performance winner in the auto repair sector is a major accomplishment. Secondly, we are developing prospective retailer relationships in the U.S. auto parts sector for Winning Colours, so the PartSource retail platform is an excellent proving ground to determine which specific merchandising approach works well in this setting. Thirdly, motorsports and auto parts retailing are connected in many ways – and motorsports is huge. Winning Colours is a perfect fit in motorsports, where PartSource and Canadian Tire both already have a presence, such as the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series: http://hometracks.nascar.com/series/canadian_tire_series. Winning Colours will continue to seek openings to gain recognition as the professional quality cleaning product of choice in this environment."
Winning Brands has been increasing its auto sector targeting of Winning Colours Stain Remover recently, where grime of various kinds accumulates inevitably through the nature of the repair and maintenance function. This initiative includes the launch of a new series of social media videos showing Winning Colours for auto related uses, including repair facilities, such as this one example:
News 5 minutes ago!
My last visit to Hacketts a couple of months ago revealed that they stocked the WC products from all their closed stores in the one store up on the St Lawrence river. I forget the name of the town. I spoke with the store personnel who told me they intend to keep 2-3 stores open and not reopen the others that were in their chain, at this time. This one store had a large stock, of all sizes, on the shelves of all of the WC brands, from Kind laundry products to the stain remover. The only products I did not see was Trackmoist and Reguard. I have visited this store twice this year and they are slowly working their way through the product.
Phoenix
Finally! A cohesive, well thought post of the type I usually hope to read on this board. Thanks DOOG for a thoughtful post.
Phoenix
Continuing to do my small part, I grabbed 100K of those .009's. It was too good of a deal to pass up. I just keep accumulating until the big day comes.
Phoenix
I have tried both and also Kind Laundry and Fabric Softener.
It may work great, Clean 1 kills ants (both the little ones and the carpenter ants) and deters their encroachment into my kitchen. It's amazing and environmentally safe as an ant repellant.
Quarterly reports posted on Pink Sheets!
There is always a "what if", or a "yes, but...", the telling factor is what risk profile is the individual investor comfortable with. I have enough room above my basis to sit and wait to see future events unfold. I am not concerned about the volume at this point. If it stays low after all the events purported to be coming this year, then I may re-evaluate. Any action until then is premature in my book.
Darn the bad luck, I am only up just over 104%. I guess I should sell into the downward panic, eh?
This is a interesting article about how major retailers (WALMART) are cutting back on SKU's making it harder for products to get shelf space. It seems to be industry wide and could explain the hiccup with LOWES last year.
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109105/retailers-get-pushback-as-brands-disappear
PhoenixR
Let's see about boiling this down a little...
"...an indication of advancement in a current relationship..." and "...not necessary for Winning Colours to be in a store’s “As Seen on TV” section...". Can this be read as the Lowes agreement has had some movement? They don't have an as seen on TV section, and Eric says WC display in that kind of section is not a priority. Hmmm, do we play the 'Lowes this Spring' story again this year, only for real this time?
For me, the best news here is the disclosure itself. It fulfills earlier promises for transparency. The numbers are what they are. But we can see how this company is structured and working to grow. I like the visability and insight.
It's clear that employee and Eric's compensation is tied to performance. I take some comfort in that.
East Syracuse on Bridge Street next to Channel 9.
I went to Purcell Paint, in Syracuse, today to see the display of WC for myself. It was there, so now I don't have to drive to Hacketts up on the St. Lawrence River to fill my stock. That is a 200+ mile round trip. Purcell's only had 2 of the large bottles left. I spoke with the shift manager who said it was popular and that they had sold out of the 4 oz display and most of the large bottles. He said he would be ordering more. I bought one of his two last bottles on the shelf. Also, the distributor attached to the shelf several pictures of before and after stains using WC as the cleaning agent. Sorry that I don't have a digital camera or cell phone that has a camera so that I could have taken and posted the picture. I still live in the pre-digital age.
THANK YOU ERIC...A new store just 2 miles from my house. Now I don't have to drive over 200 miles to buy my favorite cleaning products. I will have to check it out this weekend!
Store Name: Purcell\'s Paint Inc
Address: 5900 Bridge Street
East Syracuse, NY 13057
Phone: (315) 446-6475
FROM ERIC
A friend of mine wrote to Eric this morning and received an answewr within two hours. Here it is with my friends permission. I am assuming Erics consent and hope that is Ok.
Hello Mr. XXXXXX,
Thank you for various observations and suggestions. The following is a point-form summary of our findings to-date:
• We are interested in larger displays in stores, and do seek permission from stores to provide them. These include rolling carts, counter cards, signs and banners to name a few. It usually takes time to be granted such additional exposure. We therefore see the existing box as the “thin edge of the wedge” in the process. Even the box takes us a step forward because not all products are allowed to be sold in their original box.
• Although you may feel on a “gut level” that the words stain remover are associated only with laundry, we have become quite familiar with the market and find that consumer perception of the words “stain remover” is more general than that.
• The fact that the product is “sitting alone out of place” is actually an accomplishment, rather than being crowded in amongst others. The easiest place to be lost is in the crowd.
• We have seen that Paint Department personnel eventually become familiar with Winning Colours Stain Remover and begin recommending it. The advantage to us of the Paint Department as a “home” for Winning Colours Stain Remover in stores is the opportunity to be recommended by staff. Over the long term, this is the equivalent of having thousands of part-time sales people. It is of tremendous help to a product within that store to be recommended by a member of staff.
• The reason that we do not create specific labels for the many areas in which Winning Colours Stain Remover can be used is twofold: The first is an ethical matter. We do not want to pretend that the consumer has to buy 5 bottles of (the same) liquid to solve 5 problems when one bottle will do. I realize of course that it might seem like a smart business move to sell 5 times as many bottles, but it is a fundamentally dishonest premise (and would ultimately fail) because the consumer would be spending 5 times more than they need to. WD-40, the famous spray lubricant accepted this principle as well and has gone on to be one of the most recognized brands in US households. WD-40 is a multi-purpose product concept, although in the area of lubrication. The second reason is practical – managing 5 times the SKU variations (or more) greatly increases costs and personnel requirements. It means that the company would need to maintain much higher inventory levels, manage the streams of brand issues that are specific to each iteration, create more websites for the specific product niches, etc. Our goal is to become the “go to” product when people have drips, drops and disasters of various kinds in their homes or at work, in other words – one thousand cleaning uses in one convenient solution. The unique dual personality of Winning Colours to be used full strength or diluted will also become better known over time as a terrific quality.
The bottom line is that Winning Colours Stain Remover has barely been “born” yet in the USA. We have not even scratched the surface of public awareness because we are so new. The Direct Response Television Advertising (DRTV) 2-minute infomercials which will be on air in the 2nd quarter of 2010 will accelerate the process. The growth in store counts also reveals increasing penetration of the brand. The day will come that the name “Winning Colours Stain Remover” will be widely known, the product liked very much and will describe a favourite for millions of consumers.
Thank you for your interest in these issues and that fact that you became a member of the Winning Brands shareholder family.
Cheers,
Eric Lehner, CEO
WinningBrands.com
From: XXXX
Sent: January-18-10 8:13 AM
To: Eric Lehner
Cc: YYYYYY
Subject: Advertising Suggestion - Our sales Displays Need upgading
To whom it may concern:
I am an investor in Winning Brands. I was so excited to find the product on the shelf (located via internet search) in my local area – Ocean Springs Lumber in Ocean Springs, MS. When I went to buy some of the product I found a very small display that basically was sitting all by itself and basically said “Stain Remover”. In the US “Stain Remover” automatically makes one think that this product is something that you only use when you are washing clothes. One immediately wonders why this clothes washing product is sitting alone out of place in the painting products section.
I suggest and upgrade to your advertising at the display level. We need a large eye catching back panel that highlights in bold print the primary qualities of this product. “GOT PAINT SPILL OR CLEAN UP ISSUES – HERE IS THE ANSWER” Without taking the time to read the bottle no one in the US will take the time to research a new products(there are a million “Stain Removers” on the shelf in the Laundry detergent section)many uses of our “Stain Remover”. For sure no one will relate our products to paint or any other clean up problem.
You may even consider changing or having multiple name’s of our product to target specific areas of use - “Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner, Paint Clean up, Stain Remover, ETC.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
I can't find the reference, but I believe I read where Eric tries to hold to a 25% discount for the 504's. What the actual discount has been is unknown to me.
OT: How long you in for?
You may not need it if WNBD takes off.
You are 100% correct. I was Navy in San Diego and now work for a Defense Firm in Logistics. I supported many SUPPO's in my early days as a civilian up and down the West Coast.
TH/Rocket, The GSA is not military. They are the General Services Administration. They buy "stuff" for the entire government. They do have some support for the military. The military is also supported by the massive Base Exchanges which is what I thought Tim was working on with that company in Colorado. So we have to different organizations with some overlapping responsibility.
I think the announced R/S on another soap stock (SP*G) had something to do with people finding another place to put their money during the heavy sell-off. Apparently, some of those investors think WNBD is a safer place to invest. IMHO.
They are down to 3 stores, one in Ogdensburg, Pottsdam and another really small town 30 miles southwest of Ogdensburg (all in the far northern NY) according to the guy I spoke to at the Ogdensburg store. They are trying to work thru the BK and re-open some of the stores. Their success is TBD. Normally I would not care about one small retailer, but it was the only one where I could score WNBD products in my greater CNY area.
2.55 a gallon and 4.5 hours round trip. I bought as much products as spent in gas. Should have thought about the camera. I'm sure they had one in the store somewhere. Does this qualify as the crazy or dedicated WNBD fan of the week? Eric needs to get a retail outlet under contract somewhere closer.
I drove 137 miles one way to the Hacketts in Ogdensburg, NY (now only 1 of 3 Hacketts left open) to purchase my WB products, as that is the closest store located to me anywhere in Central or Northern NY. Once there I found apparently that the inventory of the other, now closed stores must have been shipped to Ogdensburg. There was an entire aisle (one side) filled with WB products, from 5 gallon containers of Clean 1, to laundry soap, fabric softener, and dozens of the small display packets of WC Stain Remover. It looked like a WNBD outlet store in that aisle. I'm sorry I don't have a camera or cell phone with a camera to take the picture. If anyone is closer than me, you may want to take a picture.
Phoenix
It looks like Scups videos and others are also gaining notice on the PR.
Social media videos are now surfacing at a rapid pace, revealing the ability of Winning Colours Stain Remover to satisfy a wide range of stain problems that were not previously treatable with a single product. Examples include the automotive stains,
I did call the store way up on the St. Lawrence River and they were open. Did not check Canton and Pottstown. Both are close to the St. Lawrence store also, and too far for me to drive for cleaning products. I assume they are still selling WB, but now only in 3 locations and all in the middle of nowhere, IMO.
Thanks for the correction, but still does not address CNY accessability. I will drive an hour or so, but not more, to get WB products. Hacketts was my only option. I have no personal animosity about Hacketts, or any reason to lie about the web site. Next time, please just correct what you think my error was and not call me a liar. Personal attacks about something as trivial as this speak volumes about you.
Phoenix
Hacketts web site is also now down and has NO information of any type.
Rocket, it looks like all of them.
Hacketts facing bankruptcy
By BRIAN KELLY
TIMES STAFF WRITER
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
ARTICLE OPTIONS
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Several creditors of Hacketts department stores have moved to force the company into involuntary bankruptcy.
Six creditors filed an involuntary petition Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Utica, seeking the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Patrick Hackett Hardware Co., Ogdensburg. The creditors claim they are owed a combined $1.6 million.
The creditors' action seeks to have the company's assets liquidated, with distribution of the proceeds going to the creditors.
Hacketts operates nine stores in the north country. A 10th store in Pulaski closed March 28 and the company announced April 7 that it plans to close its Watertown store at 144 Eastern Blvd. by the first week of June. That store is having a going-out-of-business sale.
I have only been to the Phoenix and Watertown locations (close to I-81) and both are gone. I just discovered this today. Will try to determine the fate of the other stores.
Rocket, take Hacketts off the store locator list. I drove the 75 miles up to their Watertown, NY location to replenish my supply, and their store was shuttered and out of business. ERIC, Central NY (Greater Syracuse and area for a hour or more in any direction) is now without a convenient way to purchase WC directly. I hope your sales staff will change this soon.
Phoenix
Previous posts id'd the teams and the Tigers were not one of them as of 2 months ago. I have not seen anything saying they have orchestrated a contract since then either. So no on the Tigers for SPNG at this time. Go Tigers!
Phoenix
IF YOU WANT TO ADD YOUR QUESTIONS COPY AND PASTE POST AND ADD QUESTIONS. THEN WE CAN SUBMIT IT TO ERIC
Posted by: J-Rhino Date: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:43:53 PM
In reply to: None Post # of 90193
The next 48 hours
are all about generating a list of questions for the CC. Lets take advantage of this opportunity to gain some transparency.
Here are a few:
1) What were the results of the House Hasson show?
2) When is Marc Hill going to begin the social networking/twitter marketing?
3) Any news from Italy? Our ambassador has been very quiet over there :)
4) How well was the full page ad in NKN received for TrackMoist?
5) Are we still on track to land the US grocery retailer this month?
6) Have you decided what city will be next for the C100 promo?
7) how many stores are we in?
8) what phase are we in?
9) when will the store locator be updated?
10) How will the rack and the product get delivered to those who want it?
11) Is the ad in Fabricare going to be seen by dry cleaner operators all over the U.S. and Canada?
12) Can you tell us how many ambassadors you have now and in what parts of the country are they?
13) Your corporate website shows several different languages, is this feature to be activated any time soon?
14) Many new names unknown to investors are appearing in your Press Releases. Could you share with us how many employees are on staff now ? Or can this be updated on the corporate website....naturally those who are department heads in this case?
15) How are negotiations with Lowes proceeding? The store locator has received a lot of eyeballs and when telling potential investors about the company that is one of the first questions asked?
16) Are you advertising in Mexico? Or Italy? Or Australia? Your TV ad on the site is in English are others running in native language of the country? Currently can you tell us where the on air advertisemts are gaining the most pull? do you have a mechanism in place for this?
17) Since Winning Brands already has established a relationship with Walmart Canada and Home Depot Canada can you comment on efforts being made to secure those accounts in the U.S.?
18) When will the Investors Information Sheet be published/distributed?