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-Business and Finance Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvil!e, Wednesday, September 11,1991 5 Attend Jewellery Trade Show Fire Can't Stop Growth at Brookdale-Treeland Long Time Company Now Located in Newtonville Ron and Dan Hooper, of Hooper's Jewellers in Bow- manville, have just returned from Toronto where he attended attended the 1991 International Jewellery Trade Fair, Canada's Canada's largest jewellery trade show. Mr. Dan Hooper, a Canadian Jewellers Association member, previewed the newest jewellery styles and trends featured by leading manufacturers, suppliers and designers who exhibited from all over Canada and abroad. In addition, he attended three days of seminars and special events designed to keep jewellers abreast of everything new and exciting in the jewellery industry. by Mei-Lin Stichbury Presumably most people know about tne fire that destroyed destroyed Brookdale-Kingsway Nurseries on Duke St., in Bowmanville a few years ago. But did you ever wonder what happened to the company company since then? What was formerly Brookdale-Kingsway, is now called Brookaale-Treeland. Its local operations are now located in Newtonville. Name Changed From Kingsway To Treeland In 1983, Brookdale- Kingsway merged with a wholesale operation called Treeland Wholesale Nurseries Nurseries located in Mississauga. They relocated to Newtonville Newtonville when Brookdale- Kingsway started buying property there in 1978. Over the years, it acquired acquired more land. Two years before the facilities in Bowmanville Bowmanville even burned down, Brookdale-Treeland was already already open for business at the new site. The location in Newtonville Newtonville is considerably more conducive to growing trees, explained general manager (•I James Insurance]} * --. --v Broker Limited 26 King St. E., Bowmanville, Ont., L1C 1N2 416-623-4406 Eleanor Damant Nosta Akey~ of Brookdale-Treeland, David David Brown. "There's a lot more land to grow on and the soil is sandy rather than clay-like," said Mr. Brown. "Plus, nobody bothers us out here and we don't have to worry about expropriation or expansion of the town," he added. The new Brookdale- Treeland corporation has made for a larger, more diverse diverse horticultural operation. operation. At one time, they were brokers of nurseiy stock, with only a small percentage of volume coming from their own production. But the new company is almost a completely self- sufficient grower and wholesaler. wholesaler. Brookdale Treeland Nurseries Nurseries grows deciduous trees and shrubs, for both landscapers landscapers and garden centres. "Seventy percent of the trees are grown for the landscaping landscaping trade and 30 percent percent are grown for garden centres," said Mr. Brown. The company's head office office is located in Schomberg, Ontario where there are 50 acres of growing space. Another Another location in Barrie has an additional 200 acres for spruce and pine. According to Mr. Brown, the newly diversified company company is very successful and extremely extremely ' reputable within the trade. "We are one of the top five wholesalers in Canada, he said. Most Stock is Grown for Landscaping The list of projects supplied supplied by Brookaale-Treeland is impressive. For instance, Canada's Wonderland is entirely landscaped landscaped with trees supplied by Brookdale-Treeland. The project required à wide variety of stock ranging ranging from large caliper trees to spreading evergreens. And Brookdale-Treeland doesn't just supply to companies companies in Ontario. Other projects projects have included Missis- POWER SAVINGS IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT We'd like to shed some new light on...light. Now compact fluorescent light bulbs help us see power savings in a whole new light. The benefits are clear - ENERGY SAVINGS... 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The 50 acres in Schomberg Schomberg are devoted to container container production and this facet of the operation is expanding expanding in Newtonville as well. Most of the trees are grown in two-gallon pots and larger, landscape-sized plants are grown in three- gallon pots. Container growing is probably the fastest-growing area of operation at BTN, said Mr. Brown. And it has many benefits. Since the trees are being grown in a pot, the environment environment is much more controlled. controlled. "The trees are better fertilized fertilized and irrigated," explained explained Mr. Brown. The growing period for trees is also reduced, which means they are saleable at all times of the year instead of just the spring and fall. In addition, containerization containerization serves to reduce the amount of land used to grow the trees. Furthermore, it produces a better quality plant, Mr. Brown said. "It's been extremely extremely successful thus far," he added. Proposal Allows Workers to Invest in Business Ontario Announces New Worker Ownership Plan Ontario Treasurer Floyd Laughren announced today that the Government will release release its discussion paper and draft legislation on the proposed proposed Ontario Investment and Worker Ownership Program on August 15,1991. The announcement follows the Treasurer's statement of June 20, outlining the Government's Government's plan to consult broadly on a program to encourage individuals individuals to invest in Ontario business and to facilitate em ployee ownership. Jew technologies and the increasing globalization of markets are creating new challenges challenges and opportunities for Ontario businesses. To meet these challenges, Ontario businesses businesses need access to new sources of capital to help them grow and adapt. For Ontarians to achieve sustainable prosperity prosperity and share in its rewards, new partnerships between business, business, labour, and government are also needed. "The key to our prosperity now, is to find innovative ways to adapt to ongoing changes in market conditions, and to respond respond to the needs of business and labour to remain competitive," competitive," Laughren said. "This is one step towards creating the conditions in which labour, business and other interested parties can work together to increase productivity, productivity, improve labour- management relations and set . the groundwork for sustainable prosperity." The program will have two components. The first will provide provide a tax credit to encourage individuals to invest in a portfolio portfolio of small and mediumsized mediumsized businesses through a Labour-Sponsored Labour-Sponsored Investment Fund. The province is seeking to integrate this program with the federal Labour-Sponsored Venture Capital Corporation (LSVCC) program. Individual Investors would receive an Ontario Ontario tax credit of 20% on annual annual investments of up to $3,500. British Columbia, Quebec Quebec and Saskatchewan already have similar programs in place, which are matched by a 20% federal tax credit. The second component will provide enhanced tax credits to facilitate employee ownership. Unlike the Labour-Sponsored Investment Fund, the LSVCCs established under the employee ownership component will be restricted to investing in the employer's business. British GM Reports Sales Stats In August For the month of August, Chevrolet Cavalier continues to be Canada's No. 1 selling passenger car. General Motors of Canada dealers delivered 30,334 vehicles vehicles in August 1991, a decrease of 10.9 per cent from 34,051 vehicles delivered in August 1990, Michael Erdman, Vice President of Marketing, reported. reported. Total passenger car and truck sales for the 1991 calendar calendar year, through August, totalled totalled 313,179, down 3,7 per cent from 325,071 vehicles in the same period last year. Passenger car deliveries in August of 20,410 were down 7.9 per cent from 22,165 in August, 1990. Sales of passenger passenger cars for this calendar year totalled 213,158, down only I. 8 per cent from 217,035 cars sold from January to August, 1990. Truck deliveries for the month of August were 9,924, down 16.5 per cent from II, 886 sold in the same month last year. Total truck sales, January January to August 1991, were 100,021, down 7.4 per cent from 108,036 for the saine period period in 1990. Columbia and Saskatchewan also have employee-ownership provisions in their LSVCC programs. programs. Through the employee- ownership LSVCC, majority control of the employer's business business will rest with the employees. employees. Employee ownership, combined with participatory workplace practices, can lead to increases in productivity and will allow employees to become become full partners in industrial restructuring. The LSVCC will be permitted to invest in taxable taxable Canadian corporations, or Canadian partnerships, that carry on an active business in Ontario. To ensure a broad base of acceptance among the employees, employees, a majority of those employees employees who vote would have to approve the establishment of the LSVCC. Employees investing in their employer's business will be entitled to an Ontario tax credit of 20% on the first $3,500 invested, and up to 30% on incremental investments. investments. Tax credits will be available on an annual maximum maximum investment of $15,000 with a lifetime investment limit of $150,000. The program will be designed to ensure an equitable equitable distribution of shares so that the benefits of employee ownership are not skewed toward toward high income earners. Industrial restmeting is a priority both in Ontario and nationally. nationally. Therefore, Ontario will be expecting the federal government to participate in both parts of the proposed program. program. With the release of the draft legislation and the discussion paper, the Government will be actively seeking input from interested interested parties on the proposed proposed program. There are a number of complex design issues issues that will have to be addressed addressed in the consultation pro- cess.The deadline for written submissions is September 26. . "With this consultation process, process, we are committed to strengthening the partnership that will help us find the solutions solutions that work best for Ontario," Ontario," Laughren said. Workers prune trees on the 600 acre lot of the new Brookdale-Treeland Nurseries Nurseries in Newtonville. Much of the nursery operations had been re-located to this site before the fire which destroyed Brookdale-Kingsway's buildings in Bowmanville. 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