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THE CANADIAN HALL OF FAME!
BUSINESS ROLE MODELS!
Ever heard of Homer Simpson? Joel Cohen from Calgary, Alberta, is Co-Executive Producer of the show! Joel grew up in Calgary, attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton and then received his MBA at the Shulich School of Business at York University Toronto, Canada.
The first job he landed was as a comedy writer with the show "Suddenly Susan". This stint lasted for just a year and he was then invited to work on The Simpsons.
The animated sit-com is now in its 19th year and has earned a Peabody Award, 18 Emmys and a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. Time Magazine named it the the best TV Show of the twentieth century.
In addition to his work on The Simpsons, Joel Cohen has been a contributing writer on numerous feature films, including Cat in the Hat and Curious George. He has been nominated for or won major awards including an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Writer's Guild Award.
Some of Joel Cohen's Quotes: :"If you choose a job you're passionate about, it will feel like you've never worked a day in your life. Another way to get that feeling is to go on welfare" - Joel Cohen "If adults dont like their jobs, they dont go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed" - Joel Cohen
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From $300 to $30,000,000"The Angel is in the Details. To me, details are everything."- Marcia Kilgore
Consider the following backdrop: 1. Marcia was born in Outlook, Saskatchewan - population 2600. 2. Her father Monty was a Real Estate Salesman who died when she was barely 11 yrs old. She noticed that her mother fret over money and decided she would never worry about paying that electric bill again. 3.Her mother Lorene was a clerical worker. She had a sister who was a model and lived in New York, USA.. 4. She left Outlook, Saskatchewan with just CAD $300 and pocket change to live with her sister. She planned to attend Columbia University but her funding fell through. 5. She then worked as a Personal Trainer for models, celebrities and people connected to the Fashion World. 6. While working as a Personal Trainer she developed acne and decided to take a crash course in Cosmetic Chemistry at UCLA. 7. At the age of 23 she opened her first beauty spa in 1993 throwing all her savings into her project. She remembers that "... it all started as 'Let's Face It'. I opened a three-room facial and nail place in Soho with a small but fab staff, a groovy trompe l'oeil paint job, and a four thousand dollar antique French sofa. You know even back then, at twenty-three and without a nickel to spare, I'd rather have been broke than expected our customers to sit on featureless furniture. To me, details are everything. Anybody can do ordinary The rest is history......Marcia went on to establish establish Bliss a 5,600 sq ft spa and the beginning of Bliss World; an $18 million a year spa empire in three short years. She also launched two branches, a mail order catalogue called 'Bliss Out' and and online store www.blissworld.com It would take six months to get an appointment on average and this lead time lead leading lady Julia Roberts to complain to People Magazine that even she couldn't get in on short notice. This incident eventually led to the purchase of 70% of her company for 30 million dollars by LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy).
As probably everyone on the West Coast of Canada knows by now, there has been a small but growing firm called Cookies By George which has only been in Vancouver since January 1983, but has taken that city by storm with its witty ads, zany promotions and fine quality cookies. Tara was a stewardess for Air India and used to go to Dubai, play tennis all day and drive about in a Mercedes. It was her sister Gayle who said to her while on a visit to Dubai, "Leave this land of Luxury. Come home and make cookies." When they returned to Vancouver, the two girls had no money so Gayle did window displays with friends who owned a clothing store and Tara swept the floor at the Pacific Center which is a long way down from the tennis and Mercedes scene from Dubai. Tara used to often say," I am not creative. I cannot do anything." One day Tara met Noreen Kenney-Campbell. Noreen was saddened to discover that the two sisters couldn't bake, so she began to do the dirty work on the boat she lived on. "I made bunches of cookies," she says, while her two tentative partners kept talking about opening this cookie store. But a moment of truth had arisen. "Are we going to do this or not." Tara and Noreen found a location. Noreen did all the graphics and artwork and they tested cookies endlessly. They painted the store themselves, grouting the tiles, and while they were making all this mess, Vancouverites kept coming into the singles store and asking for half a dozen cookies. They flew in Mrs. Fields Cookies and David's Cookies and tested them, turning them over in their hands and looking at them. "We wanted a cookie better than theirs!" There were long lonely hours at the ovens. Tara recalls "After one week as we were cleaning up our mess at 1 A.M., and we could barely move our hands I cried out, 'I left Dubai, and a houseboy, for this?'" They opened the first Cookies by George on March 29th, 1983, the store was 827 square feet in size. They opened a second store in November of 1983, and then three more in 1984. When the first store brought in $325,000, in the very first year they knew they had a winner. When Tara and Gayle Hallgreen, sisters and ex-waitresses, started Cookies by George in Vancouver, they wanted a bank loan. The loan officer was incredulous: “Cookies? we won’t loan you money for that!” After reaching a million dollars in sales within a couple of years, Tara claims the banks have changed their mind: “They are saying: “Ahhh, cookies! As two arts graduates, they might have been prepared for the initial rejection. After all, Gayle received her degree from the University of British Columbia in an envelope stamped, “No Commercial Value.”
GAYLE HALLGREN-REZAC, SPEAKER, CO-AUTHOR
THE POWER OF
CONNECTING A
marketer, entrepreneur, and writer, Gayle is also Darcy Rezac’s excellent
tag team-mate and has spent the last decade and a half observing
networking around the world. A master of the art of conversation, she
makes networking fun. Her workshops and presentations are described as
fresh and imaginative. She speaks on the power of positive networking to
change lives and on The Art of R.E.A.L. Conversation™ Judy and Gayle also
offer networking for women (and a few brave men), see
The Frog and the Princess.
NICK GRAHAM
"THE BOXER SHORTS FOUNDER"
Famous Quote: "Leading horses to water and getting them to arrive there thirsty!" Early Beginnings: ~ Punk Rock Musician from Calgary Alberta ~Landed in San Fran broke and needing to eat after a stint in Europe ~Uses self taught design skills to make men's novelty ties. ~A Buyer at Macy's suggested that men's underwear was boring and that Nick's quirky sense of humour would help a great deal if he could design them to stand out! ~Nick Graham started "JOE BOXER' in 1985.He was only 27 yrs old. ~ His uncanny business skills and great sense of humour took the company to 100 million a year revenues and in 2001 he sold it to the apparel licensing giant Windsong Allegiance Group of Westport Conn. ~United States Secret Service confiscates 1,000 pairs of underwear silk-screened with $100 bill because the imprints violate forgery laws. JOE BOXER sees the opportunity to create a news event and the company's marketing philosophy is cemented.
~He sends 100 pair of underwear to President Bill Clinton to coincide with his first 100 days in office. Note says: "If you're going to change the country, you've got to change your underwear."
~World's First interactive electronic
billboard launches in Times Square. Located at 42nd and Broadway, this
6,000 sq. ft billboard includes "The Zipper", that displays e-mail
messages delivered to the site from anywhere in the world. Launches a
promotion with Virgin Airways "Buy Five Pairs and Fly" program. Graham,
company founder, is suspended 100 feet above Times Square, dressed as the
Queen of England with his cohort Richard Branson. Consumers buy five pairs
of boxers and get a Virgin companion ticket free to London.
Nick's Grahams secrets for taking a product from ordinary to extraordinary. 1. The "More Factor". People gravitate towards things that spice up the mundane. 2. Sale of premium products is a seduction process. 3. The medium is the message ~ Go Guerrilla. Even if your product is as ordinary as underwear find a way to make it stand out and to be used as a vehicle for people to express their individualism. 4. Be an Entertainer. Business is an amusement park and the actual product is only the souvenir. 5. Find the Emotional Growth Margin. There is a delta between what some products are worth and the higher price some people are willing to pay for them.
CRAIG DOBBIN
"We move the Industry that moves the world"!
Humble Beginnings! What makes this great Business Icon stand out is the fact that he was the son of a truck driver who had 11 children in rural Newfoundland. Dobbin went to High School but never went to college. He worked for his father's lumber company, and then for a short while in the trucking business and in underwater salvage operations. He later set up Omega Investments to hold commercial property that he began purchasing in Eastern Canada. Craig did not dream that he would one day own the largest Helicopter Company in the world. It all started out when he must have decided on rewarding himself as a result of his real estate success and deciding on buying a helicopter for his own personal enjoyment and to ferry him to and fro from Labrador where he loved to go 'fly fishing' as a hobby. In 1977 he borrowed 85,000$ from his real estate holdings to buy his first used helicopter. When he discovered that the cost of maintaining his newly acquired helicopter was exorbitant, his entrepreneurial skills kicked in and he began to hire out his helicopter to cover some of his expenses.
When he saw the opportunity to turn a profit he purchased some more helicopters using his real estate holdings and formed a company called Sealand Helicopters.
Craig Lawrence Dobbin OC, D.Sc.(h.c.), LL.D (1935 - October 7, 2006) was an industrialist and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CHC Helicopter Corporation, a public company traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
The company, headquartered in Vancouver, B.C., is the world's largest helicopter company, providing global helicopter services.
Craig Dobbin was born in St. John's and received his early education at Saint Bonaventure's College in St. John's. After a period of employment with P. J. Dobbin Lumber and Building Supplies, Mr. Dobbin engaged in a short-haul trucking venture and underwater salvage operation until he started real estate speculation in St. John's in 1963. The venture, later known as Omega Investments Ltd., moved operations to Ottawa and subsequently established offices in Montreal.
In the early 1970s Dobbin returned to Newfoundland and established Sealand Helicopters Ltd. in 1976. In 1984, Dobbin merged Toronto Helicopters, Okanagan Helicopters, Sealand Helicopters and British International Helicopters into CHC Helicopter Corporation.
In 1999, CHC Helicopters Corporation, with Dobbin as CEO and chairman, took control of Helikopter Services Group ASA of Norway, making CHC Helicopters the largest provider of global helicopter transportation.
Dobbin was Chairman of the Ireland Canada University Foundation located in Dublin which assists and promotes Canadian Studies in Irish Universities; a member of the Board of Directors of Newfoundland Capital Corporation and was the Honorary Consul General of Ireland for Newfoundland and Labrador.
In June 1990, the Government of France awarded Dobbin with the Medaille de l'Aeronautique, designed to reward civil or military people who have distinguished themselves in the development of aviation; in October 1990 he received an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Saint Mary's University; he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992.
In 1995 he was bestowed with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the National University of Ireland; in 1996 he was appointed the Outstanding Individual Philanthropist for the year from the Canadian Society of Fund-raising Executives, and presented with both Newfoundland's Transportation Person of the Year award and the National Transportation Person of Year Award.
In January 2000 he was awarded the honour of "Newfoundland's Businessman of the Millennium" and in May 2000 he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland. In October 2000 Mr. Dobbin was awarded the Atlantic Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, this program, founded by Ernst & Young, celebrates great entrepreneurs and heightens awareness of the economic effect of entrepreneurial ventures
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JOEL H COHEN
In a 2003 BBC poll, Homer Simpson was voted the "Greatest
American;" Abraham Lincoln finished second.).
I am truly amazed at this woman and have the greatest respect and
admiration for her in light of her meteoric rise to fame and fortune.
COOKIES BY GEORGE ~
