30 - Sanday, February 12, 1989 - North Shore News

BUSINESS

W/V inventor hopes

THE WEST Vancouver inventor of a new type of multi-bit
screwdriver is hoping sales of the tool will expand coast to
coast after the product is featured at the Canadian Hard-

ware Show this month.

The Picquic screwdriver,
developed by former commerical
pilot Archie McKenzie, is currently
available in B.C. The screwdriver
is built on a solid plastic handie
resembling the chamber of a
revolver. Five spare screwdriver
bits are loaded into the chambers,
which run the length of the handle.
A sixth bit sits in the holder. To
exchange bits, the user simply pulls
out the one being used and pushes
it into the chamber of the desired
bit. The bit pushes the new one
forward from the chamber, ready
to be slipped into the bit holder.

The item has been available
since August and is manufactured
in a workshop in Vancouver by
P.R. Innovations. The company is
owned and managed by McKen-
zie’s son Pau! and company presi-
dent Rb Sater.

According to the company’s ac-
counts representative Jill Suter, the
screwdrivers are selling as fast as
they are being made. ‘‘The han-
dymen like them and the profes-
sionals like them,’ Suter said.

When the fledgling company set
up a booth at the B.C. Place
Home Show in October, the goal
was to sell at least 50 screwdrivers

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to cover the cost of exhibiting. But
said Suter, ‘‘We ended up selling
500 and making them basically as

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we sold them.”

The itern is available on the
North Shore at Home Hardware
stores, at Caulfeild Village,
Holiyburn Lumber, Beaver
Lumber, Woodward’s and at

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A RECENT B.C. job market
survey by the Economic Services
Branch of Employment and Im-
migration Canada projects more
than 18,000 job openings for sales
clerks in the province by 1995.
Retail trade accounts for 77 per
cent of the market, while 13 per
cent is found in wholesale trade.
Approximately 60 per cent of the
jobs are held by women.

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Typical 1988 Vancouver-area
pay levels in the report noted that
parts sales people earned $7.80 to
$18 hourly; sporting goods sales
people carned $5 to $10 hourly;
furniture sales people earned a
combined salary and commission
of $18,000 to $35,000 yearly:
retail/deli/shoe sales peopie earned
$5 to $12 hourly.

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