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Covering your investments. (Business Beat) (company profile)
For Sherry Gallant of West Royalty, P.E.I. a way to stay at home with her children while making a few extra dollars has turned into a lucrative business. Gallant is the owner of Compu-Covers, a small firm which manufactures and markets custom-made, coated-nylon dust covers to protect computer equipment.
Like so many successful business people, Gallant's idea arose out of a need. In 1984 she was living in Regina, Sask. and looking for work that would allow her to stay at home with her two small children. When her husband brought a new computer home, they noticed that it didn't have a cover. "He said, Hey, why don't you start making covers for computers?"'
Gallant, who sewed as a hobby, quickly put together her first set of covers. I didn't do any market research at all,' she says. "I just made one set of covers and took them to a computer club." The club members were interested and before she knew it, Gallant was in business.
Since then Gallant and her family have moved from Regina to West Royalty where ...
- GALLANT EFFORT FAILS.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 10, 1991 700+ words
...out a freshman goalie, who turned in a gallant performance. But as had happened in their...This time the freshman goalie was Mike Gallant, who stopped 42 of the 45 shots he faced...coach Bruce Delventhal said that neither Gallant nor Luigi Villa, who played against Merrimack...
- Mavis Gallant. (book review)
- Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction Ware, Tracy September 22, 1999 700+ words
...opening, Danielle Schaub notes Mavis Gallant's belief that "curiosity about the...After briefly noting the importance of Gallant's bilingual education, unhappy childhood...interest: the excellent short fiction that Gallant has been writing for the last five decades...
- The Desktop Critic: Goofus International and Gallant Microsystems....
- Magazine article from: Macworld Pogue, David August 1, 1998 700+ words
...Goofus and an angelic tot named Gallant--reacted to the same social...throwing rocks at puppies. Gallant brings adult-literacy programs...that the world has too few Gallants and too many Goofuses. I was...Goofus International and Gallant Microsystems. Ready, junior...
- Varities of exile: new essays on Mavis Gallant.
- Magazine article from: Quebec Studies September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp...volume grew out of a conference on Mavis Gallant held at the Canadian Cultural Centre in...addition to four scholarly papers, it offers Gallant's own responses to questions, as well...
- Stung by criticism, Gallant fires back.
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) November 30, 2006 700+ words
...after the Blue Jackets fired him, Gerard Gallant was on his way back home to Prince Edward...coach said. "I just need to get away." Gallant, fired Nov. 13 after a 5-9-1 start...reporters Monday that the Blue Jackets, under Gallant, were playing "like an AHL team...
- Secured Digital Applications Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Major...
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 22, 2004 700+ words
...agreement to acquire a 56% controlling interest in Gallant IT Holdings (M) Sdn Bhd (www.gallant-it.com.my), a leading Malaysian provider...will be US $658,000. Founded in 1986, the Gallant IT Group of companies is involved in the sales...
- Cote, Nicole, and Peter Sabor, eds. Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis...
- Magazine article from: Quebec Studies Coleman, Patrick September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp...volume grew out of a conference on Mavis Gallant held at the Canadian Cultural Centre in...addition to four scholarly papers, it offers Gallant's own responses to questions, as well...
- Secured Digital Applications Inc. Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Majority...
- Press release article from: Business Wire July 21, 2004 700+ words
...letter of intent to buy a majority stake in Gallant IT Holdings (M) Sdn Bhd (http://www.gallant-it.com.my/procat.php), a leading...interest in the Company. Founded in 1986, the Gallant IT Group of companies is involved in the...