It started with a submission I almost did not send
The CMAA Idea Fair is an annual showcase where North American professionals share what is working in their industries. The audience is serious. The bar is high.
When someone on my team suggested we submit Solpak's packaging appro...
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I am spending three days at the Enercare Center in Toronto.
The RC Show runs Sunday through Tuesday. Solpak has a booth on the East side. Number 1850.
Two of our team players are with me. Nicky Martineau just joined us as new products and solutions advisor for Ontario. Véronique ...
I did not build Solpak for Bloomberg
I want to be clear about that.
Solpak was built to serve clients, employ good people, and solve real problems in the packaging industry. Bloomberg was not part of the plan.
And then Bloomberg Markets Now included Solpak in their coverage, a...
Solpak was named Employer of the Year at the first edition of Les Axents.
The award was presented by Alternative RH at a ceremony held November 23, 2023 at Chez Maurice in Saint-Lazare.
This is the one I most wanted Solpak to win.
I have built Solpak around growth and quali...
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The room felt different that night
The CCIVS Super Gala is a serious event. The Chambre de commerce et d'industrie Vaudreuil-Soulanges brings together the business community of our region, and the BonsCoups recognition is not handed out casually.
Five companies are recognize...
The number that changed the scope of the work
$972,000.
That is the value of the R&D project approved through CRIBIQ and NSERC for Solpak's research into sustainable packaging alternatives.
I have been proud of many things we have built at Solpak. This project belongs in a different category. Not...
I was a mentee twice before I ever became a mentor.
The first time I was a young founder trying to get Solpak off the ground. The second time I was further along but stuck somewhere I could not see clearly on my own.
Both times, a mentor changed what happened next.
In 2019, ...
I did not expect the call
The Government of Canada's Accelerated Growth Service is not a program you stumble into. The selection process is rigorous. They are looking for companies with the fundamentals in place, the trajectory that suggests scale, and the clarity to use support effectively.
When ...
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Good press is a consequence, not a goal
I have never hired a PR firm to chase coverage. I have never crafted a media strategy before we had something real to say.
When L'actualité Alimentaire ran a feature on ThermoGo, our thermal packaging innovation, i...
The real story behind the story
When Daylite reached out to feature Solpak as a customer success case study, I agreed immediately.
Not because I wanted the press. Because I wanted to tell the real story behind the CRM decision, which is more interesting than most soft...
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The first company I ever ran, I ran at 17
It was 1992. I had just joined Student Painters. I was handed a territory, a stack of flyers, and told to go build something.
Some students fold. Some adapt. I became the youngest franchisee in Canada.
Thirty years later, Chri...
I was building Entrepreneur Sherpa.
What I needed was a team that could move at the pace of a founder. Not a vendor who hands me a brief and disappears. A team that understood the vision, asked questions worth asking, and adapted as the project moved.
I sat down with Solutions M to ...
