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health care and be a part of the community planting its roots in a small basement operation exco continued to grow until it blossomed into a highly suc cessful business with rev enues of well over 200 mil lion a year recently exco celebrated its 50th anniversary the growth of exco is a great suc cess story in 1952 a canadianborn toolmaker named harry robbins startedmoonlight- ing afterhours in ms base- ment soon robbins quit his fulltime job to focus all his time and energy on his new project the seeds of his labour ivave grown into a multifaceted operation well beyond its core business extrusion tool ing today the business includes extrusion and die- casting tooling as well as flexible storage and restraint systems for tlie automotive industry tjie company has continued to move forward powered by the hard work and dedication of 1800 employees across 13 different entities and includes harry robbins own three sons in 1975 harry passed away and the company began to struggle with its limited cash resources however one of harrys sons brian soon revitalized the business exco now believes in giving back to the community tliat nurtured its amazing growth we make the hospital a first priority said mrs cartwright its a great feel ing knowing that the money is well spent at the hospital and the results can be seen and heard from our employees who might utilize the services of the hospital from time to time she added we believe that local representa tion is very important as a platinum sponsor for this years gala exco has made a commitment of 15000 in addition exco is a spon sor of the markham stouffville 5 km legacy run next month and has reached out into the community to support other local charities and events iwwin jp- cotiabanks history with the markham stouffville hospital spans almost 20 yearsbeginning in the early i980s one of north americas pre mier financial institutions and canadas most international bank scotiabank is pleased to provide its support to the hospital which makes a differ ence in the lives of people in tlie community we liave always been a signif icant sponsor because the hospital is a cornerstone of our community explained warren jestin senior vice- president and chiefeconomist of scotiabank and a local markham resident our employees in the markham branch have chosen to make the hospital a main focus of fundraising efforts i scotiabank has more tlian 960 i branches across canada with six branches in markham and leotimnk stouffville with approximately 48000 employees scotiabank and its affiliates serve about 10 million customers in 50 coun tries worldwide last year the scotiabank group contributed 30 million to various charities and com munity organizations across canada and tie world scotiabank and our employ ees believe in community involvement explained mr jestin right across the coun try we support causes tliat bur customers and staff are sup portive of such as the markham stouffville hospital one of the topranked hospitals in tlie province in 2003 scotiabank was pre sented with the benefactor award for its enduring finan cial support of the hospital scotiabank was also the lead ing corporate fundraiser pro- viding 27766 to the hospital with support from the team scotia community program and is this years event sponsor for the markham stouffville 5 km legacy run with a commitment of 30000 over the next three years for this years gala event scotiabank is a platinum sponsor a 15000 commit ment the hospital needs funding to keep pace with the rapidly growing requirements of our community said mr jestin its just one of the ways we give back were one of the major philanthropic givers in canada and last year donated over 25 million coast to coast with a diverse range of prod ucts and services including personal commercial corpo rate and investment banking scotiabank continues to improve the financial lives of its customers for more information on scotiabank please visit wwwsoctiabankcom j