StoosNews Spotlight: Check Out The Business Beat This Week Featuring SWAG Parcel Service & Kelcey’s Nutrition Centre

PTBOCanada is delighted to to be running StooNews columns each week here, spotlighting new businesses and startups in Peterborough and the Kawarthas. Here is this week’s edition…

A great story from Kelcey’s Nutrition Centre in East City. 21 years ago, owner Bill Kelcey and a few other similar, and independent, stores formed a buying group, allowing them to compete. 21 years later that buying group, now called the Health First Network, is now 96 companies, 142 stores and an office, warehouse and distribution Centre in Burlington. And Tori Kelcey, Bill’s daughter, has just been appointed to the Networks Board of Directors. Tori tells me that the network also has its own line of vitamin’s, and a famous Peterborough landmark is about to be featured on one of the bottles. For more info, go to Kelceysnutrition.com.

SWAG Parcel Service is a new, local delivery company for small businesses in Peterborough. Owner Heather Million offers delivery at a great rate, with on-time, professional delivery. SWAG can do same day service, customer pickups locally or in the GTA as well as handle high volume and subscription-based businesses. You can find SWAG Parcel Service on Facebook or call 705-868-3134.

Women Breaking Barriers is an interesting event from The Innovation Cluster, coming up on December 15th at noon. Four local founders will be profiled - Jeannine Taylor, Publisher and Editor in Chief of KawarthaNow, Rhonda Barnet, President & COO of AVIT Manufacturing, Shelby Leonard-Watt, Owner of Save our Soles, and Sofie Andreou, Founder of 123DigitalPower, Digital Marketing Services & Training. Details are at innovationcluster.ca.

Charlie Gregory has just published a new book, his fourth! Titled Dreamed Fish Dancer, it is based on a dream his brother Kevin had of their brother Shane, who had passed a year earlier. It is a really interesting concept for a book with contributions from John Boyle, Steven Leak, Jenny Hamilton, Wayne Eardley, Jade Gregory and more. You can get your copy by emailing cassjade@cogeco.ca.

Events coming up include an information session on some of the services offered by WSIB and how your business can benefit. The webinar is this Friday (December 11th) from 9 – 10 am. To register, call John Carr at 647-308-1730.

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