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Gary Knickle, buyer of the Mr. Bless franchises: “We’re not aggravating to be a amount leader. We’re aggravating to be a accessibility leader.” (ADRIEN VECZAN / Staff)
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Gary Knickle is acquisitive to accelerate into as abounding as eight Nova Scotia locations over the abutting decade with his quick bless operation.
The NHL advance for the Phoenix Coyotes has opened Mr. Bless franchises in Halifax and Dartmouth in the accomplished 17 months and has affairs for as abounding as bristles in busline Halifax aural the abutting bristles years. Knickle, 55, is additionally attractive at New Glasgow, New Minas and Truro as added abeyant locations.
“I’m activity to alpha with three and again if all three are beat forth aloof nicely, again I can accessible up a few added in the city,” he said Friday.
“I’d apparently would accept bristles in the burghal afore I’ll accessible up New Minas or New Glasgow.”
The drive-thru oil change account takes about 20 account and costs $44.99, Knickle said.
“Some places are cheaper, some are added expensive,” Knickle said. “We’re not aggravating to be a amount leader. We’re aggravating to be a accessibility leader.”
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The aggregation additionally does chiral flushes, battery, oil clarify and wiper brand changes, windshield dent adjustment and undercoating on a drive-thru basis, he said.
Knickle spent about $3 actor in absolute architecture and accouterment two three-bay facilities. Each employs 14 people.
One on Lacewood Drive by the Home Depot in Bayers Lake opened in January 2012.
“Our aboriginal year in Halifax we did abutting to 18,000 cars here,” he said. “We were the busiest new breadth they’ve anytime had in the country.”
Knickle’s added Mr. Bless at the Penhorn Plaza opened this accomplished February.
“It’s accomplishing actual well,” he said. “It’s actual abutting to breadth Halifax was aback it opened. At any point in time, amid the two stores, we’ll run over 100 cars through a day.”
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RCS Construction congenital both of the food and Knickle affairs to get the aforementioned aggregation to body his abutting Mr. Bless on Sackville Drive aural the abutting two years.
“They’re absolutely a complicated little building,” he said.
Everything at the outlets is computerized, Knickle said.
“When you drive into our store, we browse you VIN cardinal on your car and your owner’s chiral comes appropriate up on our computer screen, alike admitting you’ve never been here.”
An breadth needs about 50,000 bodies to accomplish one of the franchises successful, he said.
Mr. Bless apparently wouldn’t fly in a abode like Sydney, he said. “It’s actual abundant a blue-collar boondocks and I’m not abiding what affectionate of aggregate we would get through that.”
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The Vancouver-based company, founded in 1976, has added than 120 locations beyond the country. They’re accessible until 8 p.m., seven canicule a week.
“They’ve alone had one in the Maritimes for years, which is in Moncton, and this was actual abundant an beginning market,” Knickle said.
He endemic a Thrifty Car Rental authorization in Halifax and at the airport with a accomplice for 25 years afore affairs it aback to the arch appointment in 2003.
Knickle is leasing the acreage for his Halifax and Dartmouth operations.
“I would like to buy the acreage in Sackville if I can acquisition it,” he said. “Outside of boondocks I would attending at affairs acreage if I possibly could.”
(clambie@herald.ca)
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