Replies to post #162229 on Winning Brands Corporation (WNBD)

[scupscup]

Wow the price is to high? Well the other day i was at my brothers house and as soon as i walked in i looked up at his ceiling and i see red and blue. I looked at my nephew who is seven and he said i threw some playdough up in the air and it hit the ceiling. The dye from the playdough imbeded itself. Well my brother wasn't happy at all. I asked both of them did you try Winning Colours, they said no. They both use Winning Colours and they have a big quart. I asked my nephew to put a little bit of water in a cup and i need a toothbrush with a dry rag. I proceeded to put 1 ounce of Winning Colours in the cup with the water and within 30 seconds the red and blue stain on there ceiling was gone. My brother comented ,and said that one bottle of Winning Colours has saved me hundreds of dollars in time and having to repaint walls and ceilings. My nephew who takes art lessons and gets paint everywhere showed me paint he had gotten on the hallway wall. My brother stated i need to use Winning Colours all the time just to get the markers and paint off of everything. My nephew looked at me and said Uncle i know something Winning Colours won't work on and he proceeded to show me. He had a artist paint brush soaking in Winning Colours for 6 months. I asked my brother if this was true ,because my nephew really isn't sure what 6 months is lol. My brother said it was months just not sure how many. I told my nephew you need to use water and sure enough we cleaned that expensive paint brush clean as a whistle. While we where doing that i noticed paint on a wood stool. Bamm i had to clean that and oil base paint on his hardwood bedroom floor. Harley we all know what your doing here ,but anyone who uses Winning Colours will tell you it's worth it's wait in gold. My brother was ready to buy 2 gallons of ceiling paint and a roller. Winning Colours saved him lets say 60 bucks in paint and roller/brush? Then we need to add in the 2 - 3 hours to repaint it. Labor he's cheap and unskiled lets say 12 bucks an hour for 2 - 3 hours so we are looking at give or take $100 dollars to repaint the ceiling. The brush we cleaned my nephew said they paid $10 dollars at a yard sale for it. Winning Colours saved a $10 dollar brush. The walls which my brother has stated he needs Winning Colours weekly to get paint and markers off the walls and floors what would that run him in cost? This is all from the same bottle he has had for over 1 year. So to say it's over priced lol.

In the past few weeks i saved 2 of my sweat shirts. I had gotten that roofing sealent on the sleeve and it was on there for at least a month. It was underneath near my arm pit so i never noticed it. It's been threw the wash at least twice. Sure enough i soaked it for a while and only used my finger nail. Took it all out. That would have been $20 dollars or so down the drain.

I would pay $20- $30 bucks a bottle. Why ,because i know it will pay for itself by saving my cloths my skin my paint bruses and rollers and anything else you can think of. jmho

[just_an_ant]

I can assure you that Lowes and Home Depot (likely two of the three national accounts in USA in discussion) are not relying on your below quote

I can assure you they are looking at the claimed "5000+" stores and then looking at the sales numbers and seeing that the two just don't mesh; if sales are dismal in the smaller market stores, who is going risk National shelf space to a product that isn't selling ANYWHERE?

They have data from their Canadian Stores; Lowes has some preliminary data from the test in 3 Ohio Stores....

Canada Home Depot averaging 1 bottle every 2 days across all stores (some with no advertising,etc.)

From blog Statistical Projection

The stores in Canada selling Winning Colours Stain Remover that are the most similar to a direct U.S. counterpart are Home Depot and Lowes. Winning Colours has more experience in Home Depot than Lowes (where it was just activated).

The operational update received today is that Winning Colours is moving at the rate of approximately 1 bottle every two days, namely 20,954 bottles January 1 – September 22, 2010 over 180 stores at Home Depot in Canada.

The 20,954 transactions for this one retailer, cited above, is a blend of repeat customers and people discovering Winning Colours for the first time.

and

Lowes

Oct 01 Lowes Update

by Eric Lehner

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 February 2011 report was received today. The three product turns and replenishment in 2011 to-date has been rated at 100% across all performance metrics. This is in addition to the 100% score for 2010 to December 31st.

The USA national retailers will look at related market data; not what is happening in a c-store in boondocks; or some small time grocery stores in very small markets neither of which is focus on the home improvement sector (aka paint departments).

An example of a Canada NA that can also provide support to a respected USA NA is the data being generated from racks in stores

Most notable this Canadian Tire Store

BEFORE
Display installed August 18, 2010. Prior to installation, Year-to-Date figure was less than 1 bottle per week.

AFTER
2010 = 233 units (increase to approximately 1.5 bottles per day following installation August 18, 2010 )
2011 = 083 units (approximately 1.25 bottles per day maintained during disruptive renovation of the department, just completed)

And a link to a blog for folks wanting CEO's take on comparisons between Canada and USA

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

[captain_ameritrade]

I said the same things about Hanson tea at .80 a share.
You just can't underestimate the power of a mass product with a continuously growing account base.
Remember potential buyout is the end game here, in my opinion anywhere from 250M-500M valuation with all major national accounts on board.
Time frame 1.6 years-2.0 years?

[ub2]

And yet I have started filling WCSR reorders to some of my customers who trust me and my carpet cleaning business.
Oh, I charge $20 per qt. ;-)