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Coffees of the World wins enterprise award By RICHARD DUNSTAN Examiner Staff Writer The slogan stick to your last came from shoemaking but as far as Tim Snelgrove is concerned it applies equally to the coffee and tea trade The Coffees of the World chain the former Barrie res ident and his wife Teresa operate sells everything for coffee and tea and nothing for anything else We wont sell cheese we wont sell copper pans he Custom Coffees of the Worlds Bar rie outlet may not be the chains most profitable store but it does have one distinc tion the others dont enjoy The biggest seller says manager Shonnette Gulan OWSkl is coffee rather than the mugs and accessories which form the mainstay of business elsewhere in the chain Mrs Gulanowski and her two parttime helpers find themselves largely in the custom coffee business as customers come in asking for advice on their purchases The first question is whats the best coffee We say its an individual per sonal thing she explains We find out their personal tastes and then try to guide them Often people are started out on Colombian beans owner Tim Snelgrove says Colombian coffee is one of the few varieties which tastes good without blen dingand adjustments and additions are made on later trips iii says Coffees of the World employees are expected to know all there is to know about the merchandise and they cant do that if the merchandise is too varied If someone comes into our store with question about cof fee and doesnt get the answer Im mad as hell he says ENTERPRISE AWARDS Does the approach work Somebody must think so This year Tim and Teresa Snelgrove won one of two $7500 Canada coffee uines Enterprise awards in nation wide competition against 157 other entries The awards are intended to promote business enterprise and are sponsored by Canadian Enterprise Development Corp venture capital firm the Financial Post and the Mon treal daily newspaper La Presse Snelgrove now 32 an Owen Sound native who grew up in Barrie got the idea for Coffees of the World from business Teresa and Tim Snelgrove For this reporter who likes his coffee strong andfilack with no sugar Mrs Guls anowski recommended blend of Mocha and Java Beans Much of the stores trade is Barrie Community Credit Union Ltd elected its 36th board of directors at the annual meeting Thursday at the Con sumers Gas Building The board consists of sitting from left Steve Nyitray vicepresident David Hogben presi repeat business Mrs Gulr anowski says and customers are usually knowledgeable People who come in here are quite up on their coffee she says It sells itself project he had to do at the University of Western Ontario in London Such projects do not ordinari ly grow into real business esthough the Pop Shoppes were started much the same waybut the Snelgroves Teresa is Toronto native who used to spend her summers at Shanty Bay liked the idea enough to found their first store in September 1975 Business has boomed since then The couple now has franchise operation in London in addition to the original store six outlets in Toronto and since last November store in hidden corner of Barries Bayfield Mall The location and the fact that much of Barries specialty shop trade goes to Toronto keeps the Barrie store from being as pro fitable as some of the others says Snelgrove were not los ing money but were not mak ing any either ACCESSORIES Much of the profitability of the business comes from the ac cessory trade Snelgrove says Coffees of the World sells mugs grinders Melitta coffee markers Irish coffee sets and thelikc In London last year we sold more mugs than we did cof fee he says Youd die on the coffee Recent dramatic increases in tlieprice of coffee beans have hurt the chain he says but in the long run the price hikes may prove helpful With costs up people will care more about quality and will come to ap preciate the fresh coffeewe wont sell coffee thats more than two weeks oldand high grade beans available at Cof fees of the World dent and Rita Crowell secretary Standing from left direc tors Jiiii Iunlop John Stone Tom Locke Maryanne War ford and John Ransom Icter estwood is also director Examiner Ilioto President sees bright future for community credit union David Hogben sees bright future for Barrie Community Credit Union Ltd even though net income for the year ended Feb 28 dropped sizeably from the year before Hogben was elected president of the credit union board of directors at the annual meeting Thursday The Barrie lawyer has been vicepresident the last six years He succeeds Larry Shrubsole whose term expired this year Shrubsole was nominated but not reelected to the board The credit unions annual report indicates that net in come for the year was $10938 down from $50323 the previous year Assets rose to $41 million Your business from $31 million year before with jump in land building and equipment assets con tributing almost $300000 of the increase The credit union mov ed into new building on Col lier Street in July Shareholders were asked Thursday by the board of direc tors to accept one per cent dividend rate this year on the minimum quarterly balance on share deposits Thats down from four per cent the year before Things like this happen every once in while when you go into new building when the economy is tight Hogben ex plained The board of direc tors said go for one per cent this Public sector pay year and go for higher percen tage next year We put it to the membership tonight and they agreed Hogben said the credit unions other Services more than compensate for the low sharedeposit dividend The membership seemed prepared to sacrifice the dividend and have the new building he said noting that he had not heard any complaints about the new rate The dividend paid on special deposits was 07 per cent The credit union was founded 36 years ago Treasurer manager Merle Bodcnham said it presently has about 4450 members within 10milc radius of the city an increase of 720 over last year In his report Bodcnhani notes that assets rose 32 per cent this year loans to members increased by $877620 lit per cent and members shares and deposits climbed $173810 13 per cent We are always looking for ways to expand and improve our existing services however we must stress once again that the full use of all services by you the member will enable us to give better return on your savings he said Total loans to members in the year was $31 million with in crease in each of the personal line of credit and mortgage loan categories Those who like to grind their own coffee beans can get both beans and grinder at Coffees of the World as Shonnettc lulanow ski manager of the Barrie store demonstrates The nine store chain founded by former Barrie resident Tim Snelgrove and his wife Teresa has just won $7500 anada IIntcrprise Award in nationwide competition Examiner Ihoto business Some help is on the way for tax branch dealings Hcvcnuc Mimstcr Margaret Scrivcncr says that thc cor poratioiis tax branch of tlic ministry will introducc scvcial ncv stcps to assist corporations lll thcir dcalmgs llll tlic bran cli My ministry is fully auarc that tax legislation is not known for its simplicity Mrs Scrivener commented llicrctorc whercvcr possible we are taking steps to provide information and adv1cc that will make our legislation more readily understood by cor porations and their advisers tltimately wish to strcamlinc this Act and reduce itscomplcxity Beginning immediately the corporations tax branch will New accounts is goal of Canada Trust drive Canada Trust has launched campaign to expand the num ber of savings and chcquing ac counts in its branches which gives depositors the chance to win 1077 Mustang II ihia arl Bianchi manager of the Canada Turst branch on llunlop Street said the local branch is participatinginthccampaign Sean McNamara assistant viceprcsident of deposit scr viccs said each depositor will receive coupon to enter the contest for each new deposit of $50 made between April 25 and lunc There is limit of 100 coupons for $5000 deposited with the company he said The cars will be awarded to the first 13 coupon holders who correctly answer mathemat ical skilltesting contst We hope that new customers will become aware of our ser vices and be attracted to open an account by the opportunity to win Mustang McNamara said The contest helps us to comv pctc with larger financial in stitutions he said adding that the contest should be an incen tive to present Canada Trust customers to put more money away of is suggesting iob market Greater Barrie liainbcr of Commerce resolution sug gesting that high school guidance counselling bc di rcctcd more toward the job market and less toward higher education will be among policy items on the agenda May it guidance through 10 when the Ontario hamber of Commerce holds its annual meeting in Toronto President Ed Harper first vicepresident Dave Blenkarn and general manager Bob Hollywood will represent the Barrie chamber at the meeting the crux of decontrol By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Labor leaders and some businessmen are stepping up their campaign to kill off the anti inflation program and the government ap pears to be gettin ready to cave in If the early en of antiinflation restraints is inevitablevw less than halfway through the 38month trial that the government promised to give thcm will Canada simply return to the allout superinflation of 1975 At least one academic economist makes strong case for retention of antiinflation con trols in the public scctor that is in govern ment where spending has been growing faster than in the private sector Thomas Jourchcne 37 of the University of Western Ontario finds it incredible that the government gave the Antanlation Board no mandate ever to make recommendations on publicsector growth much less to regulate it as it does the private sector Writing as contributor in Which Way Ahead Canada After Wage And Price Con trol just published by the Vaiicouvcnbased Fraser Institute Irof ourchcne notes that in mid1975 just before controls were in troduced publicsector salaries were rising at an annual rate of 18 per cent vs 14 per cent in the private sector Inflation had reached an annual rate of about 118 percent by one measure There was even some speculation at the time that the MB was created specifically to control publicsector wage increases POLITICALLOUI Not only was the rate of wage increase greater for public officeholders but the in dexing of their pensions the system under which benefits increase automatically as in flation worsens pushed the value of the wagebenefit package to inordinate levels he comments Whatever incentive the private sector may have had to resist wage demands was cf fectivcly eliminated Bercft of any economic base wage behavior becomes principally matter of expectations and political or social clout In wage bargaining the great advantage hold by publicsector employees is job security No matter how big an increase they might demand and obtain it has no impact on their employment outlook In the private sector on the other hand eX cessivc wage demands can and sometimes do lead to employee layoffs or even to bankrupt cies of employers Privatesector negotiators must recognize this reality As an employer the government is similarly free of such restraints as the need to generate earnings or to balance its income and its spending Instead it floats along on constantly rising green tide of cash guaranteed by progressive tax structure If tax revenues should temporarily slacken then it has easy access to the printing press and to captive markets for its debt According to Prof Courchcnc the time may be ripe to privateizc some of the ac tivities that currently are in the government sector IIEAVIER BURDEN The expansion of the public sector of the Canadian economy he believes is increasing the tax burden on the private sector and could thus reduce incentives to the point that fana dian industry will be doomed to low and declining rates of productivity growth me of the most important reasons for the weight of that tax burden is that one of our policy choices has been to have the highest unemployment benefits in the world The decision to stick with those benefits and with high minimum wages could well mean in his opinion that full employment would be reached when the nominal uncm ploymcnt rate is six per cent of the labor for ce In March it was 81 per cent modern high Any attempt to reduce the unemployment level to the range of four per cent which not long ago would have been considered full em ployment is bound to be strongly in flationary in lrot ourchcnes view It goes without saying that none of the con tributors to the Fraser Institutes study would repudiate minimum wages unemploymcnt insurancc licalthandwelfare benefits or other enlightened programs ltinadians should be aware however of the economic implications of those programseincludiiig their effect on growth employment and prices provide formal advance rulings to corjxirations at their request ruling will tell corporation in advance how the Act will be applied to specific tran saction proposed in confidence to the ministry Each ruling will be binding and as is the practice in other jurisdictions fee will be charged for this service For some years cor porations have asked my ministry for advance rulings and now Im pleased to be able to provide them as an aid to corporate planning BlllEllS As second measure the branch will begin publication of technical Interpretation Bulletins describing and com meiit ing upon the applicat ion of the provisions in The 01 porations Tax Act This hope will go long way toward explaining the Act in terms which will be more readily un derstood than the legislation it self aiid will alert corporate staff to any new provisions in the Act Mrs Scrivener ad ded lturthcrmore we will be issuing Information Bulletins which will explain in general terms important changes in The orixirations Tax Act These bulletins will also include uptodate information on ad miiiistrative practices and procedures in the oipirations Tax Act Branch Can you identify this old car It is not as ancient as last weeks which was correctly identified by Warren Easton of RR Mluesliig as Tudliope McIntyre but it could be difficult for the younger set This one is from the Craven itoundation collection of classic and antique cars covering the period 1903 to 1933 the examlner Saturday Aprll 30 1977 13 business notes Fertilizer contract From The Ottawa Bureau Of The Examiner federal contract worth $24024 has been awarded to Bradford Fertilizer Ltd of Bradford to provide the defence department with fertilizer the department of supply and services announced Monday It was one of 611 unclassified contracts worth $10000 or more that were awarded by the department to Canadian companies during the week ended April Total value of the contracts amounted to $49131386 Wins $10000 contract OTTAWAA federal contract worth $10000 has been awarded to Midland Planing Mills Ltd of Midland to pro vide the Indian and northern affairs department with lumber and building materials the department of supply and services announced Monday $44800 to creamery From The Ottawa Bureau Of The Examiner federal contract worth $44800 has been awarded to Alliston Creamery Ltd to provide the defence department with butter the department of supply and services announc ed Monday It was one of 611 unclassified contracts worth $10000 or more that were awarded by the department to Canadian companies Downtown parking Members of the Downtown Improvement Board will meet with Mayor Ross Archer within the next two weeks to discuss parking in the downtown area The meeting will review the whole parking situation and improvement board members will ask for clear direction from the city In the meantime the board will reissue its posters pro moting free Friday night and Saturday parking Cooper supplies tapes The Cooper Group has been appomted as the official sup plier of measuring tapes to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games This follows the groups successful participation in the 1976 Montreal Olympics in the same capacity The official signing of the agreement between The Cooper Group and the 1980 Olympic committee took place in Moscow Representing Cooper was MacPherson vice president and general manager and representing the Olym pic organising committee was vicepresident Vladimir Koval During September 1976 Cooper displayed comprehensive selection of its Lufkin measuring tapes at the exhibition Technique for Olympic Sport These included measuring tapes of the type used in the Montreal Olympics and those that would be suitable for sporting events generally Ocean ports optimistic By ESTELLE DORAIS The Canadian Press The ocean ports of Halifax Saint John NB Quebec Churchill and Vancouver all expect increased spring summer activity from last year with Halifax the most op timistic port officials say CGE chairman retires Walter Ward left retiring chairman of Canadian General Electric Co Ltd gives some tips to his successor Alton Cartwright at shareholders annual meeting in Toronto Wednesday Ward was first hired by General Electric almost 40 years ago at 15 cents an hour CI Ihoto ryear If you can identify it send your answer to Wheels of iesteryear The Examiner Box 370 Barrie Ont IAM 4T0 The winning entry is chosen from all correct answers in draw held the day before the next contest appears Winner receives gift certificate from The Brass Group good only at Brass and Glenn Dunlop Street East