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FROM THE EDITOR
We’re
back in top shape after a summer break from the
leader.com. The whole staff is prepared for the
upcoming months to give you all the latest news
about our clients, products, and the Bleutec team,
as well as a little touch of humour.
This first
fall edition of the leader.com is more informative
with its added articles. Read about our Virtual
Rally, our participation at Promat 2005, the 3rd
edition of our mini-catalogue, updates on our
Web site and future promotions. We continue our
customer introductions where this month you can
read about Poudrier & Frères of Victoriaville,
Québec. Frederic shares a sandwich wheel
success story, Nancy’s back with her racing
summer, and we have our funny of the month.
 We
are all glad to be back typing up our articles,
and we are anxious to start on the next edition
of the leader.com as we have tons of ideas. Remember,
if you have any suggestions, comments, or news
of your own that you’d like to share, tell
us about it. We’ll definitely publish your
news and articles in the leader.com !
Signed,
Luc Turcotte
Editor
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Distributor
of the month: Poudrier&Frères Ltee
In our continuing effort
to present our customers to you, this month we
introduce you to Poudrier
Frères Ltée from Victoriaville,
Québec.
They have been in business
for over 60 years, and have been a Bleutec customer
since 1989. Poudrier Frères is an industrial
distributor, as well as Quebec’s largest
manufacturer of utility body trucks.
Quality and service are
their priority. Poudrier
Frères Ltee : ideas, products, service,
since 1942.
Luc
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Promat
2005
The countdown to Promat
has started! Our preparations are already under
way, and we head to the windy city in 3 months,
already!
Don’t forget to add Promat to your 2005
agenda:
January
10 – 13, 2005
McCormick Place, Chicago
Bleutec Booth #3820
We’ll fill you in
on the latest details in the upcoming editions
of our newsletter.
Nancy Allen
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| My
racing summer….
Summer 2004
is already behind us. Did summer
fly by for you too? It just went
by too fast!
Here I am with Paul Tracy, 2003
Champ Car Champion!
I thought
that I’d share my racing summer
with you. There was Formula 1 in
June with Michael’s seventh
win of the season, Champ Car in
August with Patrick Carpentier’s
second place finish, and I was very
lucky to get to go to Loudon New
Hampshire in July to see my first
oval race and Nascar practice session.
Yellow Freight invited Bleutec to
see the Busch series race and cheer
their Yellow sponsored car. Wow!
We even got to meet their driver,
Casey Mears, nephew of the legendary
Rick Mears.
All the pit road action from
Loudon, NH
 It
was pretty awesome to hear and see
the cars at
full speed going round the track.
I’ll have to go back
next year!
Enjoy
the pictures, and have a wonderful
fall season!
The
start of one of the support races
from the
Champ Car weekend
Nancy
Allen
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Virtual Rally
Do you visit our Web site
on a regular basis? You should because we’re
continually updating our products and product
section.
This
October, we invite you to participate in our
Virtual Rally and learn more about us. Simply
go to www.bleutec.com
, click on the Virtual Rally link, do the rally,
and you’ll receive a gift from us!
Luc
Turcotte
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| SANDWICH
IS MOVING OUR BREAD !
Most of you have
probably heard about our famous, but misunderstood,
SANDWICH casters. If you've never heard of this
special caster, then this success story of a
Canadian bread manufacturer should catch your
attention.
Some of you may have noticed
that some bread manufacturers use four wheel
carts to deliver bread from their facilities
to your local grocery store.
One of our customers,
who was using 3" solid nylon casters, decided
to reduce replacement costs, therefore in 2002
we recommended our 4" SANDWICH casters.
Since then, this bread manufacturer has seen
a significant decrease in the number of casters
replaced.
The solid nylon wheels
originally used could not absorb the continuous
shocks when, for example, the carts were accidentally
dropped from the delivery trucks onto the pavement.
Many wheels would break in half, resulting in
tremendous drawbacks: maintenance time, money
and non-use of equipment. Our customer wanted
to keep using hard wheels because of the ergonomic
issues involved, (hardest wheels result in lowest
starting
efforts), but they also needed the
shock absorbing capabilities of soft and elastic
rubber wheels. This is why we offered the SANDWICH
casters: Shock absorption combined
with minimal starting effort
and noise reduction which are
the three fundamental characteristics behind
the SANDWICH wheel's design. (Sandwich
Wheel).
Today, this bread
manufacturer has reached its cost saving goals
by investing with Bleutec casters. We have since
sold to them over 40,000 units of the 4"
Sandwich casters.
Frederic Lagace
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Promotion
Since the leader.com’s
inauguration in September 2002, we have had
several promotions to thank you for your readership,
and to try to have you save some dollars.
 Unfortunately
and/or fortunately, few customers benefited
from our offers, which in some cases, could
have saved you 5% on orders.
With the return
of the leader.com following a 3 month summer
break, we suggest that you keep a close eye
on our Web site and on the leader.com because
we have other promotional ideas. Also, we are
working on expanding our product line and we
will hopefully be able to give you all the latest
details in the upcoming months.
Luc Turcotte
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Construction
on our Web site!
We’re
going to be constantly updating and uploading
information onto our Web site in the next
months, so make sure you visit us at www.bleutec.com
to see all that is new, and keep an eye open
for promotions!
 We
would like to receive your comments about
our Web site, whether good or bad, or simply
let us know if there is something missing
when you visit our Web site. Please send us
your feedback to: leader@bleutec.com.
Karine
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