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Winning Brands: Assisting in Oil Spill Re-print from accredited news agency
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Canada's Winning Brands Sends Care Package Of Products For Gulf Oil Clean-up
Barrie-Based Company Steps Up To Plate To Assist Volunteer Workers
By Cambridge Now News
Crude Reality Attracts Barrie Company
Canadians take the initiative to get involved when it comes to International causes. Earthquakes, hurricanes, and now oil spills.
This past week, following news reports coming out of the Gulf of Mexico where the BP Oil spill has become one of the worst environmental disasters in recent years; Barrie, Ontario, Winning Brands Corporation expedited a shipment of its Winning Colors Stain removing agent to volunteer groups on the ground in Mississippi.
British Petroleum's problem is presently unstoppable and cannot be capped off. The explosion has revealed possible systemic issues within BP's corporate culture with regard to risk management.
As the gushing, spewing well continues to unleash crude from its bowels some 5000 feet below the surface, communities along the gulf coast of the United States brace themselves for what could have a "Katrina" effect but with a very different loss factor.
Winning Colours has built a successful business developing Eco-friendly products which they currently market in Canada, the USA, Australia and South Africa, so sending off a shipment to help-out seemed like a natural solution to an un-natural disaster.
"Canadians like to help out their American neighbours whenever we can," suggests Winning Brands, CEO, Eric Lehner.
"When our team heard about the catastrophic runaway oil well, we knew that our expertise could come in handy somehow, in some productive way," said Lehner.
This revelation prompted them to research potential spill clean-up volunteer groups in the State of Mississippi. Their goal was to suggest ways their eco-friendly products could arrest the effects of the spill on possibly wildlife, the volunteer workers themselves, their apparel, and on anything they saw fit to use it on.
"Your friends in Canada would like to adopt you and this is our gift. And you can have as much as you need—even if it runs into the thousands. The response to the offer was touching," said Lehner.
This is not the first "wet cleaning" expedition for Winning Brands. They have recently made an agreement with Holland America Cruise Lines to switch out their solvent-based dry cleaning products onboard cruise ships for their Solvent Free Solutions non-toxic dry cleaning solutions otherwise known as "Wet cleaning". So they are strong supporters and promoters of anything ECO.
Committed To An Eco-Friendly World
"It makes sense that everything we do, everything we use and everything we wear, from now on, should be eco-friendly. As long as there is human ingenuity people will keep finding ways to use what we do to make better choices for themselves and their families. The spectrum is wide. Whether it's an oil spill, or a toddler's sippy-cup accident, our products will continue to be "strong as solvents...but gentle like soap". (Who could ask for anything more?)
Clean With A Clear Conscience
Lehner believes in people, worthy causes, humanitarianism, and, of course, Winning Colours Stain remover...but then that goes without saying.
However, I had to track him down. And I firmly believe that his unselfish willingness to take what he has, which he believes is useful and give it to someone who actually needs it, will be thank you enough for him.
And if it saves a thousand ducks or ten ducks or one duck, and helps with the clean-up, Winning Brands will have WON another fight...and so too, will everyone else involved in this environmental calamity.
Here's to success in the Gulf Region. Good work Winning Brands!
Oil Slick Near Mississippi Delta
An April 20 explosion at the rig led to a leak of crude oil at the sea floor, roughly 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the ocean surface, where intense pressure impedes most mitigation efforts.
The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP's internal investigation.
An oil slick that has resulted from the accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico lingered near the Mississippi River Delta on May 1, 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this natural-color image the same day. The oil slick appears as a tangle of dull gray on the ocean surface, made visible to the satellite sensor by sunglint—the mirror-like reflection of the Sun off the water. Most of the oil slick occurs southeast of the Mississippi Delta.
And Now A Word From Eric Lehner, CEO Winning Brands
WE believe in a safe and healthy environment. It is the goal of Winning Brands Corporation to give you positive new choices in cleaning products that are effective and eco-responsible. It is not our purpose to criticize other cleaning products already in use, some of which are satisfactory. The question is whether we can go beyond satisfactory to a higher standard of performance, eco-responsibility and value. We hope to earn the right of becoming a new favourite in your home or business for the categories in which we specialize by pleasantly surprising consumers with the features and benefits that are now available in advanced environmentally sensitive cleaning solutions.
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