In September 2010 Al was telling me about a big deal in Kenora with a newly renovated fish processing plant and how they had confirmed orders for literally tons of frozen fish products, but they needed a good quality fish coating. He wanted additional funds to visit the owners in Kenora and get the contracts in place.
He also wanted to send product samples and have product displays created for an upcoming food show being held in Vancouver (Oct 2010). The food show was being coordinated by Inland Pacific Distributors (a national distributor) out of Langley BC.
I verbally agreed to the plan and advanced additional funds to cover these expenses, with a verbal agreement to repay the money at the end of 2010.
Al returned from Kenora with nothing except something along the lines of the “they don’t know what they’re doing...” story (again) and the big break-through food show in Vancouver seems to have dropped of the radar, although we did ship them several cases of the Canadian Classic Fishfry product.
Plus, all of the additional funds that had been ear-marked for these projects was gone without a trace.
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