tj mw io aturdjdtclqizboi s c arsi v w economist sun v st ouf mile tribune 4 front niches from duck poo to skyhigh windows niche marketers offer unique products and services byroygreen staff writer three aurora brothers create a business that thrives on only 1 x percentofitspoten- tial market tlnylabelsmadebyahus- jjand and wife team turn into j an industry supporting 60 employees at a 6000square- foot plant in markham a schomberg woman forms a partnership withan awardwinning sculptor to create whimsical junk garden creatures l and a whitchurch- stquffville veterinarian finds a very businesslike way to rnake thousands of tonsof duck poo nichej marketing is alive arid well in yorkregion the best advice for potential business is to find an unmet need arid fill it said gary svoboda of the canadian industrial innovation centre or- to revisit an old phrase necessity is- the mother of invention which is what dr ronald k downey put to practise when confronted with the problem of how to dispose of thou- sands of tonnes of duck waste produced at king cole ducks the commercial poul try operation in whitchurch- stouffville downey a veterinarian launched a pilot project to convert the waste to com- postr after getting the go- ahead from ontarios environment ministry staff photorob alary kevin byrne front is one of three brothers who run stadia industries ltd a company that fills a specific niche in the glass market behind byrne ed indriksons keeps the product squeaky clean downey formed a company great garden compost and now sells the product to farmers golf courses land- reapers and 4 beginning this spring the public its wonderful on the gar- den said downey who expects to process 12000 v cubic yards of duck poo this year theres no odour its like peat moss and has all the rnecessary ingredients brothers tim michael and kevin byrne sought out a unique niche when they formed stadia industries ltd in aurora 10 years ago we grew up in my fathers glass business said tim byrne when the i companywas dissolyed we were on our own but we knew our best potential lay not in residen tial glass but in the occupied building market its a very specific market only about 1 per cent of the market but that 1 per cent proved to be lucrative and even see finding page u l biisineisses end value in ancient art of fene shui vvn x it x hv v o vthese elements in nature together in a cycle support or destroy each said weinsteiri so if area wood personality society website it allows one jbrnvs new facilities riot only on technology rather than wood or water person for and you are surrounded with i aikii txzs xizjx j 0 nature said felicia example a feng shui practi- metal computer equip- f clientele jweinstein interior designer r looks at your birth ment photocopiers you landscap- arid fengshui practitioner date using the chinese cal- may feel oppressed by yqiu srv- k- no longer just for siting sound flaky not accord- ing colours and even the she 1 explained according eridar and some special environment iss- jli ii jt j j- v iyii ifai canadiahtiregmd toy4fortinos dominion radiosack enbridge home services todays homes hf fabeiiveieanershdm nofrilk swiutviile home hardware markham trriia ewn m streettfavel t remax david khurana north durham real estate seh tvw ship big ticket ii vjv vvi ajt4 vc j 17 tuesdays paper ham yourcopy of the townof pxmpl calendar services arideyents wiubedelivered