Whitby Free Press, 6 May 1981, p. 34

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1 0.( lt) \\ ,)\ S ) , A (1t)81, PRO(3R1SS I111IN WIII PIR FtSS Em--ployee owned eompany does world trade Thel 250 employees <>f Ferrco Engineering own 49 per cent of the company's shares. This ownership has seen the company grow frorn less than 50 emplovees in 1974 to 250 today, Ferrco Engineering, whose other major shareholder is Co-Steel in- ternational, is a consul! îng engineering firm specializing in service to the steel industry. The company designs and supervises the construction of steel mills. Their rnost recent local undertaking was the designing and construction of the recent Lake Ontario Steel Company expansion. According to the com- pany's marketing manager Jîrn Orr, Ferrco does the conceptual designis, conduc- ts feasibility studies and supervises the actual con- struction of steel producing milis. The largest project that the firm has done is the con- struction of the Chaparrel Steel miii near Dallas, Texas, a plant that will produce almost 500,000 tons value for money than of steel when it completes anyone else. " operation. The cornpany bas also According to Orr, 60 per designed niany new systenis cent of the company's for its clients, niost notable business is overseas and hie of which is a pollution con- says that many foreign trol systeml. companies are looking for -ehv a rtygo Canadian technology g"We hrat ve adtpey go because of its quality and 9rwhrt vrteps availability. few years," lie says adding The company has under- that Ferrco is expecting the taken a $13 million project same growth ini sales over for Irish Steel, a government the next f ew years. of Ireland company . Ferrco Engineering is -We will be supplying to another Whîtby company the Irish over $13 million of that is taking the community goods and services," hie out into the world making it says. "We were able to a recognizable name in the deliver to the Irish better international marketplace. C and C gets larger C and C Motors, Simcoe The dealership specializes Street South, Oshawa bas in the servicing of ah types been serving this part of of imported automobiles and Durham Region since 1973 inl addition to their parts and being the area's only Subaru service manager, C an& C dealer. employs three qualifîed The company, according technicians to look after to manager Idalo Cappucit- these vehicles. ti, has recently undergone The company also has a an expansion to provide for two person sales team to an- larger showroom space and swer the questions of those a new parts and service people thinking about pur- area. chasing an imported car. Century expands COME GROW WITH US iGOLD JACKET LReahyO _________ SOON i Wh'itby Looks Good with GoId 824 Brock St. N., Whitby (Right across from the Curling rink.) in January 1979. Since then, the company has "neyer looked back , they say. "IWe have enjoyed a prosperous time in the town," they continued, "leading the way with new inspired ways of serving the public. After all, being part of an international team of professionals with over 8,000 offices in North America it's not hard to be number one. " Century 21 Gold Jacket Realty Ltd. is one of these small businesses that just keeps getting bigger, s0 much bigger that it had to increase the office space, recently to provide for new sales.people. The company has been serving Whitby for just over 2'/2years as Century 21 Gold Jacket Realty. The outfit is the brainchild of Lorne Kime and Bruce Opferkuch who launched it As az fern inernber of (in ez'er-growving corrnnlv l.IVsuiclz as ienil1<> the future of Dou'ntown Whiiby - put your shop- WIitbv, ue 'e (a c<>rittrinft Io proress. I lte jiîure ping dIolars Io work f<>r voiz n<I our conzmuniî.y -SJOP quai it y of our u'orld as ive knou' il. To)getIîer...a ucnunill- I)OWIVTOW7V WUITBY! Together...a a comnitment to the future!', Downtown I-mprovement Area Board of Management

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