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Sampling product is ad director of Kellog Salada Canada, Ralph Davis. His firm is No. 1.
Sampling product is ad director of Kellog Salada Canada, Ralph Davis. His firm is No. 1.

Sampling product is ad director of Kellog Salada Canada, Ralph Davis. His firm is No. 1.

Date3/4/1976
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126478F
Sampling the goods: Jim Smallwood, president of Simon and Schuster of Canada, thumbs through some of the paperbacks in his warehouse at Steelcase Rd
Sampling the goods: Jim Smallwood, president of Simon and Schuster of Canada, thumbs through some of the paperbacks in his warehouse at Steelcase Rd
5/26/1976
Michael Davis: President of thriving L. Davis Textiles is one of the beneficiaries of Canadian quotas on textile imports but he complains of gross abuse of quota limits by customs officials to ensure that annual limits are not exceeded. Davis' Toronto firm, which specializes in children's sleepwear, employs 200. About 200,000 are employed in the industry nationally.
Michael Davis: President of thriving L. Davis Textiles is one of the beneficiaries of Canadian quotas on textile imports but he complains of gross abuse of quota limits by customs officials to ensure that annual limits are not exceeded. Davis' Toronto firm, which specializes in children's sleepwear, employs 200. About 200,000 are employed in the industry nationally.
1/10/1980
Plays down sweetness: Ross Buckland, president of Kellogg Salada Canada Ltd., is cool to mounting criticism of sugar-coated cereals.
Plays down sweetness: Ross Buckland, president of Kellogg Salada Canada Ltd., is cool to mounting criticism of sugar-coated cereals.
8/7/1979
Traffic tickets are a recurring pain to ad designer Fred Piddington whenever his firm has to make a downtown delivery
Traffic tickets are a recurring pain to ad designer Fred Piddington whenever his firm has to make a downtown delivery
10/19/1973
Off his feet: William Gerth, designer and vice-president of manufacturing at Waterloo Spring Co. Ltd., relaxes in one of his firm's products. His company, which designs and manufactures springs and mechanisms for furniture such as bed-chesterfields, displ
Off his feet: William Gerth, designer and vice-president of manufacturing at Waterloo Spring Co. Ltd., relaxes in one of his firm's products. His company, which designs and manufactures springs and mechanisms for furniture such as bed-chesterfields, displ
4/10/1982
Avid collector: Radio copy writer Dave Marrotte with a sampling of his beer and tobacco memorabilia
Avid collector: Radio copy writer Dave Marrotte with a sampling of his beer and tobacco memorabilia
3/27/1987
Show of strength: Hakan Colting, owner of Rent-an-Inflatable Inc., hoists an inflatable pickup truck to show off his company's product. Colting's firm, which operates out of his Newmarket home, supplies businesses with inflatables for use as advertisements.
Show of strength: Hakan Colting, owner of Rent-an-Inflatable Inc., hoists an inflatable pickup truck to show off his company's product. Colting's firm, which operates out of his Newmarket home, supplies businesses with inflatables for use as advertisements.
6/7/1988
Blow to small business: E.V. (Bud) Drury, of Genstar Stone Products Inc., in one of his firm's quarries, says the proposed annual fee of 6 cents per tonne will be particularly tough on the small businessman.
Blow to small business: E.V. (Bud) Drury, of Genstar Stone Products Inc., in one of his firm's quarries, says the proposed annual fee of 6 cents per tonne will be particularly tough on the small businessman.
4/15/1982
A sprinkling of orders is coming in for group washstation designed by Percy Camp, left, and sold by his son Bryan and a partner. The Thornhill men say the product is competition for a U.S. firm which has cornered the market-making it hard to break in. They blame bureaucracy for slow sales.
A sprinkling of orders is coming in for group washstation designed by Percy Camp, left, and sold by his son Bryan and a partner. The Thornhill men say the product is competition for a U.S. firm which has cornered the market-making it hard to break in. They blame bureaucracy for slow sales.
12/2/1970
Milton Stark holds a connector for a computer terminal, one of his firm's products
Milton Stark holds a connector for a computer terminal, one of his firm's products
11/23/1978
Hopeful publisher Dick Bailey, 28, has an idea he feels could enable inventive people to make money by creating new products desired by manufactures. Bailey plans to put out a magazine filled with ads placed by manufacturers giving details of as-yet-uninvented items that they'd like to produce.
Hopeful publisher Dick Bailey, 28, has an idea he feels could enable inventive people to make money by creating new products desired by manufactures. Bailey plans to put out a magazine filled with ads placed by manufacturers giving details of as-yet-uninvented items that they'd like to produce.
6/14/1971
Up in the Stars: John Davis, head of Ontario Paper Co.'s newspaper recycling program, sits atop pile of old newspapars. It's one way to get attention for firm, which plans to go public.
Up in the Stars: John Davis, head of Ontario Paper Co.'s newspaper recycling program, sits atop pile of old newspapars. It's one way to get attention for firm, which plans to go public.
11/5/1980