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A London business has a aperture to the White House.
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Harring Doors doesn’t accept admission to the best able appointment in the world, but it can lay affirmation to authoritative the doors for the home of the U.S. president.
Other high-profile barter south of the bound accommodate the Grand Ole Opry, Harvard and Yale, client Mark Minnie said.
“We accept doors in the Capitol Building, Supreme Court, the Pentagon. I’m appreciative of that,” Minnie said.
“We accept congenital a lot of relationships over the years. It’s not about me, I’d like to say Barack and I are on a one-on-one basis, but I can’t,” he said with a laugh.
Minnie has endemic Harring Doors for about a year so he won’t booty acclaim for those sales successes. Harring does about $8 actor in anniversary sales and aftermost year alien 22,000 doors, 85% of which went into the U.S.
“I didn’t apperceive annihilation about doors, but I came actuality and saw that it’s a admirable artefact and they accumulation a actual alcove market. These aren’t Home Depot doors, that is not the bazaar we are in,” Minnie said.
“I bare a year to blanket my accoutrements about this business, to accept it. I see 10 to 15% advance abutting year . . . it shouldn’t be a problem.”
Business advance is article Minnie’s acclimated to, and one ability be absolved for cerebration he has article of a Midas blow aback it comes to business.
Like the fabulous baron who angry to gold all he touched, Minnie has had a alternation of successes.
After alive for years architecture baby automotive genitalia plants in Michigan and Illinois, he opened Mega-Plas, a Magna genitalia plant, in London about 20 years ago. The workforce grew to 130 workers from 12 in the aboriginal year. Anniversary sales reached
$42 actor afore Minnie larboard afterwards four years. The bulb is now closed.
Minnie additionally opened Tru Restaurant city in 2004, affairs it three years afterwards to the chef afterwards sales ailing at $1.5 million.
He again went aback to his automotive roots and bought Tessi Exhaust, the retail operation, and Shuttleworth Exhaust Systems, its accomplishment arm, in 2008. He added anniversary sales from $2.1 actor to added than $5 actor by the time he awash it in 2011.
That led him to beating on Harring Doors, breadth he sees a agnate return.
“We see architecture is advancing back, residential is advancing back. It’s agnate to the auto industry in that you are up adjoin a lot of competition, behest for jobs,” Minnie said.
He makes no abstruse that he leans heavily on his U.S. sales offices that accept denticulate orders from Las Vegas and Augusta National, home of the celebrated Masters golf tournament.
As for that Grand Ole Opry door, it amount a whopping $10,000 and brash in at 540 kilograms.
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“It’s a big door,” Minnie said.
Harring Doors has been in business 27 years. Minnie bought the aggregation from Grant McTavish, who endemic it for added than 20 years.
When he was attractive for an investment, Minnie was acicular adjoin Harring by PricewaterhouseCoopers, his longtime business adviser.
Minnie bought the business for $4 actor and it will do about $8 actor in sales this year, he said.
“It’s manufacturing, although it’s alfresco of automotive I like the challenge. I acquisition it alluring putting this together.”
Harring, a 65,000-square-foot ability on Commerce Rd. with 45 workers, sells its doors into 32 U.S. states and all those doors are fabricated in London.
Walking the assembly floor, slabs of every blazon of copse apprehensible alpha demography appearance into doors, eventually catastrophe in a row of stained, beauteous copse doors accessible to be alien out.
“These are branch to a seniors’ home in Ohio. It’s a big project,” Minnie said.
“I assumption I’m a bit of a accident taker. The restaurant business was a risk, my wife and accountant both brash adjoin it, but Magna accomplished me if you put in processes, it doesn’t amount what you do. But you accept to let agents do the job. I’m actuality 12 hours a day, I accept my duke on the wheel, but I let them do their jobs.”
From the time the copse comes in and leaves as a door, it is a 14-to-18 day cycle, a fast turnaround time.
“The acquirement turnaround on account is phenomenal,” Minnie said.
Also in the Midas blow category, Minnie opened in 2002 Tomar Products Corp. It buys engineered artificial bang brand resins and sells them to auto genitalia makers.
He still owns it today, co-ordinating aircraft the pellets he never sees amid agent and buyer, and sales are now at about $3 million, he said.
“It has two employees, my wife and I, and I run it from my cellphone.”
Adding to the ambagious alley that is his background, Minnie started his able activity as an OPP officer, assigned to Queen’s Park for four years, alive aegis afterwards he larboard Seneca College, and his home in Bancroft.
“It was a lot of sitting around,” said Minnie of why it was not a acceptable fit and he started attractive for added challenges.
His father-in-law said Minnie could assignment at an auto genitalia business he endemic in Illinois. It was access to the auto breadth career breadth he believes he congenital his ambitious acumen.
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“I admired it. I had no accomplishment acquaintance but I knew policing was not my calling. I absitively to do article else. I abstruse from the arena up, across-the-board floors, active lift trucks,” Minnie said. The aiguille of that career was aperture Mega-Plas, the automotive genitalia bulb endemic by genitalia behemothic Magna, and that is what brought him aback to Canada, and London.
“Magna capital a hands-on accepted administrator to run a greenfield operation in London. It’s a boxy industry. I abstruse a lot from Magna, they are why I am breadth I am today. I formed with some actual activating individuals.”
After four years, Magna capital him to move to the Toronto breadth and addition genitalia operation but he capital to break in London.
“We admired London and capital to break here.”
For blow and alleviation he takes to the 24 hectares he owns in Poplar Hill, breadth he lives and hunts. He additionally loves to fish, activity afterwards apricot on the Great Lakes.
That, however, is aback he’s not alive to add to his Midas touch.
“The plan appropriate now is aloof to abound this business,” Minnie said.
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THE STATS
Born: Bancroft, Ont.
Age: 44
Family: Married to Kristen, two sons, age-old 18 and 14, babe age-old 15
Education: Diploma in law administration and abomination detection, Seneca College
Work experience: Ontario Provincial Police constable four years; artificial bang abstraction aggregation in Chicago; auto genitalia plants in Michigan; accepted administrator with Atoma International in London; opened auto genitalia bulb Mega-Plas in London; founded Tomar Products Corp., benefactor of artificial bang brand resin; opened Tru Restaurant; bought Tessi Exhaust and Shuttleworth Exhaust Systems
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EITHER/OR
Fallon or Letterman: Letterman
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Ski or sun: Sun
Beatles or Stones: Stones
iPhone or Android: BlackBerry
Cable or satellite: Satellite
Romantic ball or action: Action
Bottled baptize or tap: Bottled
Hot dog or hamburger: Hamburger
Coffee or tea: Coffee
Fiction or non-fiction: Non-fiction
Tims or Starbucks: Tims
Drive or walk: Drive
Port Stanley or Grand Bend: Port Stanley
Early riser or night owl: Early riser
Salad or fries: Fries
Dog or cat: Dog
City or country: Country
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THE QUOTE
"I bare a year to blanket my accoutrements about this business, to accept it."
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