Testimonials
Read about the praise Canada Export Centre has received from Government officials, clients and international visitors.
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Visitor & Client Testimonials
Government Official Testimonials
From Visitors & Clients
"The response from visitors of the Canada Export Centre has been great. We’ve made contact with people from China to Mexico, and Costa Rica. Even people who do not originally make an enquiry have come back later and called us directly. For a young company like ours, this kind of exposure is extremely valuable!"
Dean Brawn, VP of Business Development
Calibre Environmental
"Canada Export Centre exceeded our expectations by not only showcasing our products, but by actively delivering new business to us and following up to provide support with the opportunities. We are happy to renew for a second year!"
Nicole De Wilde, Vice President, Sales and Business Development
Rocky Mountaineer Vacations
"Thanks to Canada Export Centre we now have several new clients in China and Korea. Our investment with the Centre has paid back at least twentyfold. I'm looking forward to continued success and working closely together opening up numerous territories."
Sathi W. Rajan, CEO
Crownstar Holdings Inc.
"Thanks to Canada Export Centre, the client we now have in Korea is continuing to increase their orders and has become our strongest customer in Asia resulting in more sales per month."
Jeff J. Anderson, Export Market Manager
Winexpert Inc.
"Safety Bath's first container shipment to Australia was a result of over a year of hard work and our participation with Canada Export Centre. It was also at the Centre where an international visitor learned of our products and led to a deal with a Russian company now looking to become an authorized representative."
Don Hardy, Sales Manager
Safety Bath Inc.
"The Canada Export Centre is so much more than just a venue for displaying our company and products. They have provided us with international market studies on specific regions and countries enabling us to make better, more-informed decisions regarding potential target markets. We are so confident in their expertise that we contact them for information before contacting any other private or Governmental agency. "
Randy Wyness, V.P. Sales & Marketing
Supreme International Limited
"The Canada Export Centre has really helped open our eyes to other markets! We are now working with a couple of different parties on developing long-term relationships and looking for ways to bottle our product differently with partnerships overseas (in China). The contacts that Canada Export Centre provides are also very helpful."
Jean-Hugues Ruel, President
Export 2002
"Our experience with Canada Export Centre has been positive. Now into our second year, they are steadily improving their service. We've made contacts and have just sent our first samples to Vietnam to two different buyers. Additionally, we are talking to another company with 20 years of experience distributing seafood in Asia! As we look for alternative ways to market our product, Canada Export Centre has been helpful. Keep the leads coming!"
Neil MacLeod, Business Development
Creative Salmon Company Ltd.
"We mandated Canada Export Centre to find us a distributor in Japan and I must congratulate them on the speed and diligence they took to execute this work. We now anticipate replacing our current distributor faster than originally thought. Your work with us has been remarkable and greatly appreciated. In my opinion Canada Export Centre is an essential help to SMBs (Small-to-Mid-Size Businesses) like ours looking to enter new markets."
Daniel Lemay, Operations Manager
Chlorophylle
"Impressive. Visually exciting. This is an opportunity for people to see what Canada has to offer and a huge opportunity for Canadian businesses to access new markets."
Teresa Guest
Alcan Primary Metals
"Canada Export Centre is an excellent window for companies to access the Pacific Rim. The set-up and support services are outstanding. The facility is a silent salesperson to thousands of people coming, allowing companies in Nova Scotia access into those markets they can’t reach. I am extremely excited and looking forward to a long mutually beneficial relationship with the Canada Export Centre."
Robert Orr
Ocean Nutrition
"From the quality of the exhibitors at the Centre, I believe the Centre a roaring success."
Doug Johnston
Princeton Co-Generation Corp.
"We are always looking for more opportunities and would be foolish to pass up on an opportunity that could enable us to explore many options to do business overseas. As advertising dollars go, it is not a significant investment when you consider the exposure and possibilities the Canada Export Centre opens up"
Mark Andersen
Sling Choker Manufacturing
"The Export Centre has really come together well and is a beautiful facility which should enable Canadian companies to secure maximum exposure on the international front. I am sure you will do a terrific job on behalf of all your clients"
Greg McLeod
Specialty Paper Group
"You spend several thousand dollars going to one trade show for a weekend and your getting a few hundred to a few thousand people coming by. It's labour intensive and costly. The fact that this is un-staffed, the relative investment is low and we are getting hits throughout the whole time is great. Pound for pound, dollar for dollar this is the best way we see building our new markets and expect it will pay for itself many times over"
Yves Potvin
President, Garden Protein International
"Absolutely polished, professional appeal. Our interest is specifically for exposure alongside other high-profile companies. ...this will help us build our business locally as well as abroad"
Denise Tade
Keen Engineering
"I am very excited that Canada will now have the type of facility that has built new export business in other countries. Having seen the amazing success of the New Zealand facility I know this is an excellent opportunity for Canadian exporters looking for ways to increase their exports"
Bob Armstrong
President and CEO (at the time) of Import Export Canada (IE Canada)
"I think the Canada Export Centre is a tremendous idea--to put a 'smorgasbord' of products on display in front of overseas clients, in one friendly, informative, centralized location. Although the Scientek range of products may have good recognition within its own North American environment, the rest of the World is somewhat uncharted territory that our sales personnel at Scientek are most eager to challenge"
Paul Stopp
International Sales Manager, Scientek Hospital & Laboratory Equipment
"I think the showcase is great, but I had no idea how much space is being allotted to helping us do deals. Access to meeting rooms and coaching resources is incredible. Excellent concept, amazing location and very, very impressive space"
Gerald Eggert
Visscher Lumber
"As a result of introductions from the Centre we have prepared proposals worth over $100 Million in Mexico, China and Saskatchewan. To-date, $30M of them have been signed and delivered."
Kris Obrigewitsch
International Composting Corporation
"We developed relations with 26 qualified companies, from which 9 buyers expressed strong interest in doing business with our company. We expect new orders of $1-2 Million Annually"
Karlo Flores
Terra Nostra Chocolate
"Canada Export Centre has lived up to all of its promises and the results are far beyond our expectations. We are now working on three major export agreements in Australia, Chile and Russia. Joining the Centre has fast tracked our export development program."
Ladimir Kowalchuk
Safety Bath
"We signed a Distributor Agreement with a Korean company introduced through the Canada Export Centre in the early summer. Shipped their first of many container loads of product to the distributor (~$85,000) in August. I am very happy with the results. Keep it coming!"
Jeff Anderson
The WineExpert
"Canada Export Centre generated contacts in Beijing who are a solid match for our company. Together, we are setting up a series of pilot projects with Chinese mining safety and the Navy. These relationships will lead to long term partnerships and the expansion of our products and market share overseas."
Scott Taylor
Weir-Jones / Terrascience Group
"We feel very positive about the Centre and what it will do for us in producing top-quality sales leads. We are also very impressed with the high standards of all our co-exhibitsors as well."
Neil MacLeod
Creative Salmon
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From Government Officials
"Your work, on behalf of your clients here in the province [of BC] and across the country, has resulted in new business for exporters from across the country. We congratulate you on your successes. This is good for the Province and for Canada."
Colin Hansen, Minister of Economic Development
Province of British Columbia
"There will be more business in Canada with the help of the Canada Export Centre."
Capt. Gordon Houston, CEO & President
Port of Vancouver
"The Canada Export Centre is absolutely critical not only to Vancouver but to Canada. In January we did a mission to China and pretty much blanketed the region with literature on this new centre. I am glad it is in my city."
Mr. Larry Campbell, Mayor (at the time)
City of Vancouver
"We've got to diversify our markets abroad. Vancouver is the gateway to the Asia Pacific for Canada. What has already been accomplished by this organization, and its ability to open up markets for companies involved, certainly caught my attention. We look forward to helping out wherever we can at all levels of government."
Hon. Stephen Owen, Member of Parliament
"BC is known globally as Canada's Pacific Gateway and it's no wonder that a facility would emerge to help facilitate these global trading relationships. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that this is going to be one busy place. People looking to export and import in thru and around Canada are going to gather here as they pursue these business relationships."
Hon. John Les, BC Solicitor General
"As you travel around the world, you see centres like this in international cities and certainly to have it here in Vancouver and operating for the country as a whole is a tremendous achievement. It is a very successful project already and will be well used."
Mr. Doug McCallum, Mayor (at the time)
City of Surrey
"[Canada Export Centre] fills a huge void and provides a vehicle to assist the private sector to develop stronger networks with foreign companies, investors and governments. The Canada Export Centre provides the conduit for trade going out and investment coming in. Participating in the Canada Export Centre strengthens our activities in the international market."
Eugene Lysy, Deputy Minister of Economic Development
Yukon
"Canada Export Centre opens a window on Canadian company capabilities in exploring the world market. We believe that it will play a positive role in promoting two-way trade between Canada and China."
Dongsheng Bai, Consul
Consulate General of the People's Republic of China
"Canada Export Centre is a huge opportunity for the Mexican Government and extremely important for local companies"
Mr. Sergio Rios
Consul of Mexico
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