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Get outside this winter!
Leigh Kirschner
Vector Sales Support Specialist
February can be a tough month to get through…the holidays are a distant memory and the carefree days of summer still seem so far away. The days are short, the weather is cold and the colourless scenery seems so bleak and barren. It’s so easy to stay inside, curl up on the couch, turn on the television and resign to go nowhere until the snow melts, the trees bud and the air warms with the promise of spring! Read Article ›
Great video on the value of having great knives in your kitchen
Wendy Busse is one of the leading dietitians in food hypersensitivity nutrition care. Her expertise has developed over the last seventeen years through graduate studies, client counselling, resource development and teaching. Her passion is creating and delivering dynamic online learning experiences.
Check out this great video from Wendy on using our CUTCO knives and stressing the value of having good quality knives in your kitchen. Enjoy the video.
Haskayne students learn to sell and to inspire
Final exams are looming for students of the Haskayne School of Business and smiles are probably the last thing you would expect to see in Scurfield Hall. But that’s exactly what you’ll find if you show up on Thursday morning, December 8, when the participants of the Selling Smiles Program will proudly present their earnings to a very deserving local family.
For the past six years, HSB assistant professor Derek Hassay has challenged the students in his Sales Management course to gain “real world” selling skills by selling Cutco Cutlery to raise funds for the Children’s Wish Foundation. Sales teams of 5 students are given a small budget and sample kits, and asked to develop and implement an effective sales strategy. Not only do they learn valuable selling and sales management techniques such as handling rejection, it also teaches them the value of giving back to their community. To date, his students have raised more than $150,000 for the Children’s Wish Foundation, granting wishes for 11 local children.
T.N.T. – Today Not Tomorrow
By Rhancha Connell, National Sales Promotion Manager
It’s the day before Valentine’s Day and I am feeling sentimental I guess. Valentine’s Day is about telling the people around you how much you care about them. I can’t imagine how many roses are sent on this day or how many boxes of chocolates are bought by people for the one’s they love. For restaurants, it is the busiest night of the year! One day – 24 hours – to tell ALL the people in your life that you love them. What about the other 364 days? Do we hold back and not tell people how we feel? Sometimes in this crazy busy world of ours it seems that way.
We need to have an attitude of gratitude. Life is too short! My Dad just turned 85 yesterday. We celebrated with him at church with all of his good friends. It was so wonderful to see. I don’t know how much longer he will be on this earth but I make sure he knows every day how much I love him and that I am a better person because he is in my life.
Time and Money – The two things that there’s never enough of
Ashley Pelley
Sales Promotion Coordinator, Vector Canada
We need more time, we need more money, but we’re sacrificing both with our eating habits.
Canadians spent almost 25% of their household dollars in restaurants and fast food chains last year, to a tune of $58.4 BILLION dollars in 2009. ¼ of Canadians surveyed had purchased something from a fast food restaurant the day before. And, while grabbing something in the drive thru can save you minutes today, it can cost you years later- 60% of Canadian adults are obese and 26% of Canadian children. Obesity increases the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers, and, on average, reduces life expectancy by 6-7 years. The majority of Canadians (7/10 children and ½ of adults) don’t get the recommended 5 servings a day of fruits and vegetables and 1/5 Canadians get more than the recommended daily amount of calories from fat.
