FALL 2014 newsletter for Bestbuy Shareholders 2015 AGM • 61 ST ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING EXPANDING BESTBUY’S HOME TO SERVICE YOU BETTER Mark your calendars: February 19th - 21st, 2015 Our 61st Annual General Meeting and group stay will again occur at the Westin Bristol Place - Toronto Airport. The Bestbuy rate is $129 per night (not including taxes) and includes compli- mentary guest room internet and the cost of self parking. A complimentary Westin Airport shuttle picks up and drops off hotel guests at Toronto Pearson airport. A participation and accommodation form will be sent to Bestbuy Shareholders before the New Year. The Open House & Warehouse Extension Grand Opening will take place at the Mississauga Bestbuy office/ distribution centre on Saturday, February 21st. Thursday, February 19h - Evening Welcome Reception at the Westin Bristol Friday, February 20th - Annual General Meeting & Dinner at the Westin Bristol Saturday, February 21st - Open House DC & Drop Ship Supplier Trade Event at Bestbuy head office/warehouse. Note: Bestbuy Shareholders must attend the AGM and the Open House event in order to receive Spring SPECIALS. Exciting News! The renovations are close to completion and we are pleased to show you a couple of progress pictures of the new 35,000 SF extension to our warehouse. Progress Update: • The construction of our warehouse extension will be completed on Wednesday, October 29th. • We will start loading the racking in the new extension on Monday, November 3rd. • Renovations to the existing warehouse will commence in December. Most of the racking at the back of the warehouse will be dismantled and a new catwalk system will be constructed in the area. • The renovation work is on-track to be completed by our Open House date of Saturday, February 21st!
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FALL 2014
newsletter for Bestbuy Shareholders
2015 AGM • 61ST ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING
EXPANDING BESTBUY’S HOME TO SERVICE YOU BETTER
Mark your calendars: F e b r u a r y 1 9 t h - 2 1 s t , 2 0 1 5
Our 61st Annual General Meeting and group stay will again occur at the Westin Bristol Place -Toronto Airport.
The Bestbuy rate is $129 per night (not including taxes) and includes compli-mentary guest room internet and the cost of self parking. A complimentaryWestin Airport shuttle picks up and drops off hotel guests at Toronto Pearsonairport. A participation and accommodation form will be sent to BestbuyShareholders before the New Year. The Open House & Warehouse ExtensionGrand Opening will take place at the Mississauga Bestbuy office/ distributioncentre on Saturday, February 21st.
Thursday, February 19h - Evening Welcome Reception at the Westin BristolFriday, February 20th - Annual General Meeting & Dinner at the Westin BristolSaturday, February 21st - Open House DC & Drop Ship Supplier TradeEvent at Bestbuy head office/warehouse.
Note: Bestbuy Shareholders must attend the AGM and the Open House event in order to receive Spring SPECIALS.
Exciting News! The renovations are close to completion and we are pleased to show you a couple of progress picturesof the new 35,000 SF extension to our warehouse.
Progress Update:• The construction of our warehouse extension will be completed on Wednesday, October 29th.• We will start loading the racking in the new extension on Monday, November 3rd.• Renovations to the existing warehouse will commence in December. Most of the racking at the back of the warehousewill be dismantled and a new catwalk system will be constructed in the area. • The renovation work is on-track to be completed by our Open House date of Saturday, February 21st!
More Exciting News! We are pleased to launch our redesigned Bestbuy corporate website.
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NEW CORPORATE WEBSITE www.bestbuydistributors.ca
• Features a Search Field & users can easily navigate from English to French in the header• Home page has three direct links... 1) bestautoconnect 2) BestInfo <Shareholder Login> 3) Best Auto - new site coming soon!• Features a Store Locator where all Bestbuy Shareholders locations are listed by province. Standard contact information islisted along with a link to each Shareholder website (if applicable)• Product MSDS Sheets are located under <Products> header with direct links to supplier sites• Over 50 of our top supplier logos with direct links to their respective websites found on <Suppliers> page
Be sure to visit www.bestbuydistributors.ca to learn & see more!
MOVEMBER IS ALMOST HERE...
Jeff and “The Bestbuy Handlebars” will be back at it, growing some extra facial hair for a great cause!
Visit http://mobro.co/jeffvandesande to find out more, and check back to see their progress.
The Movember Foundation - The leading global organization committed to changing the face of menʼs health.
Also, throughout the hall were some pretty classy vehi-cles- a brand new Lamborghini, a Tesla, the Cadillac Volt,
a new Vette, F-1 Racecar, Minis, and two other vehiclessupplied by Bosch and G2S that their tools could behooked up to and demonstrated. Many of the vendorscarried over the game show theme in their exhibit spaceas well.
The show successfully brought together vendors andcustomers for a memorable evening.
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BESTBUY SHAREHOLDER PICTURES
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FIRST CLASS TRADE SHOW
On Thursday, September 18th, 2014, Bestbuy ShareholderAvenue Motor Works hosted more than 500 customersand 61 exhibiting suppliers at the well-appointed ParadiseBanquet Hall in Vaughan, Ontario.
The exciting Game Show atmos-phere was quite popular with theircustomers. Avenue hosted theirown version of the Deal or NoDeal game called “The Big Deal”where many cash prizes up to$1,000 were awarded thatevening! In addition, to keep thegame show theme momentum, a Grand prize draw forTrade Show orders took place for a trip-for-two to theGame Show Capital of the World in Burbank (LosAngeles), California.
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SUNSPLASH CURAÇAO
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TWO NEW EMPLOYEES TO WELCOME!
Preparations are underway for our next customerSunSplash Incentive Trip taking place January 15th, 16th& 18th to January 22nd, 23rd & 25th, 2015. Over 350Bestbuy participants (a record number) will be staying at thebeautiful Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort in Curaçao.
The SunSplash trip has grown every year and has con-tributed to customer sales growth for the Shareholders andsuppliers that have been involved. If you have any doubtsabout this program, ask your fellow Shareholders that
We are pleased to announce the hiring of...
Kuzi MapishBilingual Customer Service Representative
Michelle Scarrow Marketing Team - Part time
have seen their sales rise by using this incentive tool.
Some previoushappySunSplashcustomerson the beach!
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BUY & SELL VICTORIA RECAP
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A memorable Oceanside Buy & Sell took placeSeptember 21 – 24, 2014. Beautiful water and moun-tain vistas followed our group throughout the four-dayVictoria event.
Two days of successful meetings with suppliers werehighlighted with events such as Bestbuyʼs annual
SickKids golftournament andday tour. AtOlympic ViewGolf Club, thegroup had agreat day on ac h a l l e n g i n gcourse. Eventhe OlympicView beverage
cart encountered some rough terrain and challenges@#*!, as pictured. While a second group started the
day with a private, guidedmarine adventure tour lead-ing to a pod of orca whalesnear picturesque PenderIsland, where the group
Water Taxis flying Bestbuy flags were seen all day Tuesday zippingaround Victoriaʼs inner harbour - transportation arranged for our GroupEvening Out.
stopped for lunch at Poetʼs Cove Resort. Both
SickKids events and raffle ticket sales raised over$20,000 for the world-renowned Family Heart Centreat The Hospital for Sick Children. Thank you for yourgenerous support and participation in our SickKidsefforts at Buy & Sell. Itʼs amazing what our group canaccomplish at this event every year! A cheque pres-entation will be made at our upcoming 2015 AnnualGeneral Meeting in February.
Light rain didnʼtdamper our GroupEvening Out Tuesdayevening. Everyonewas rewarded with a
delicious meal andspirits at the CanoeBrewpub MarinaRestaurant. A popu-lar destination in theVictoria Pub Crawl. A fine time!
Thankfully, no one was hurt.
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BUY & SELL VICTORIA RECAP
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The IDL group mem-bers celebrated their50th Anniversary atBuy & Sell Victoria!IDL hosted a SickKids
Charity Casino Night and everyone had arockʼin good time!!
The super impressive amount IDL raised is- $15,750!!
Two SunSplash trips to Curacao, DutchCaribbean were up for grabs from the winnings of the Casino night to the highestbidders...
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