Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 12

31 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 12 GOL I ATHTECH INC . BVM: Can you share the fascinating story on how you became involved with GoliathTech? Reusing: It all goes back to my early years…my father had a company which was manufacturing carpet cleaning machines and when he retired, my brother Gerard and I took it over. Gerard was 18 and I was 13. We ran that company until I was 23. Then I moved to England because my mother and my other brother had an idea to start a business in the computer industry. I was supposed to go there for three months and ended up staying for four years, with my brother Gerard. “We started the company from zero over there and grew to 11,000 resellers worldwide, with 200 employees and $65 million in annual sales. I wasn’t even studying business, I was studying music, and I was just going to go for the summer, but I never went back to school. We were one of the first firms, globally, to make memory for copiers and printers and fax machines – supplying companies like Toshiba, Panasonic, Minolta, Pitney Bowes, Ricoh – all these huge multinationals. “In 2009, that company was bought out by a U.S. public company and I started looking for something else to do. I went to see 50 or more companies over a year and a bit and eventually came across GoliathTech. It was owned by David Bissonnette, who was manufacturing piles in his garage – selling and installing them himself – all in the little town of Sherbrooke, Quebec, just east of Montreal.” BVM: How has the company evolved to where you are today? Reusing: “Having done international business before, I thought it could become something interesting. So I bought the company from David for $25,000 and he stayed on and became our first franchisee. Since then we’ve opened almost 200 franchise units. We are in 75 cities in Canada