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 Gumpert’s located in Mississauga, ON, produce fruit preparations, ingredients, frostings, toppings and base mixes for use in the manufacture of cookies, cereal bars and pastries in their HACCP and BRC certified facility. Their products are bake, freeze and thaw stable and are found in bakeries, food service and major retail. They provide R&D, co-packing and private label services to their customers. Visit their website for more information. http://www.gumpert.com |
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 Meadow Valley Meats located in Chilliwack, BC, has been a supplier of quality meat products for over 40 years. Meadow Valley Meats operates two abattoirs, three processing facilities and several retail stores supplying beef, pork, lamb, goat, halal products, etc to butcher shops, food service, distributors and further processers. Visit their website at:http://www.meadowvalleymeats.com |
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 Leavoy Rowe Beef Co., a HACCP recognized processor located in Etobicoke, ON offer custom tailored meat solutions for their food service customers. They are producers of beef, chicken, lamb, pork, veal, deli meat and a variety of other meats such as duck, quail, bison, wild boar, etc. Visit their website to review their extensive list of products. http://www.leavoyrowe.com |
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| State of the Industry |
A Closer Look at Canada’s Food &
Beverage Industry |
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 November 4, 2011 Pearson Convention Centre in Brampton, Ontario Minotaur will be exhibiting at this year’s State of the Industry symposium presented by the Guelph Food Technology Centre. Minotaur works hard to stay involved with industry associations to ensure our software continues to remain relevant and up to date with current industry requirements.
For more information on the state of the Industry symposium visit the GFTC
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| Minotaur’s 2011 User Conference, a great success! |
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Minotaur held it’s annual user conference on October 20th and what a great turnout.
We received lots of valuable input from the surveys and throughout the sessions. We will be adding your suggestions to our MBS7 development list.
For those of you who were not able to attend a particular session, the training room is available for private booking for generic or customized training sessions. We are also offering our monthly training courses covering various areas of the Minotaur system. The handouts for all the sessions presented at this year’s conference are also available for download on our Minotaur User Forum.
We would like to thank everyone for their support and enthusiasm. It was great to be able to see and speak with so many of you at this
year’s conference and we look forward to seeing you all at next years user conference.
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Minotaur Account Manager, Victor Boersma with
Amit Adhya, from Gumpert’s and Carmen Cesario from Italpasta |
Janvi Bhatnagar and Fioretta Perta from Food Specialties. |
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Brian Smith from York Chicken Wholesale Limited with Vince Cappello from Minotaur |
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| Italpasta Gourmet Gift Basket Winner! |
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Congratulations to Janis Sabatine from Dure Foods who played our Minotaur Trivia contest at our recent User Conference and won!
Janis won a gourmet gift basket filled with delicious Italpasta product.
A special thank you to Minotaur customer Italpasta for generously donating the beautiful gift basket. |
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Janis Sabatine,
Dure Foods Ltd. |
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Carmen Cesario,
Italpasta Limited |
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| System Highlights ! |
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| We often get asked by owners and presidents who are not everyday users of the system, where they can find the key, high level information they need for making better business decisions. As part of each newsletter in 2011, we’ll share tips for getting the information you need. |
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Judith recently presented an Owners and Senior management session at our User Conference. This session took an in depth look into what information owners and senior management really care about. Focusing on profitability, sales, cost monitoring and managing, financial statements, accountability as well as manipulating and mining your data, Judith reviewed important Minotaur concepts to help interpret your data and showed how to find this data in your Minotaur system.
For those of you who were not able to attend her session, PDFs of all her material is available on our Minotaur User Forum; www.minotaurforums.com under the newsletter section. |
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Terry Eagles, Executive VP of Minotaur
Software with Richard Halenda and
Peter Davidson From Halenda’s Fine
Foods and The Meat Depot. |
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Judith Kirkness, VP of Sales and Marketing for Minotaur Software (centre) with Jocelyn Castonguay and Larry Fawthrop of Dryvit Systems Canada. |
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 Button Colours: You can now customize your desktop by adding colour to your buttons. The Custom Button Setup menu option now allows users to select different colours for each button. You can group buttons for various functions together by assigning them the same button colour.
- Redo Button –You can now rerun your last action in Minotaur by simply pressing the new Rerun hot key. This new hot key reruns the last action you did. It is only available when the Show menu box option is selected in the Buttons menu (HB).
- System Colours: Users can now assign different colours throughout the system for various functions such as text colour, backgrounds and buttons etc. To set up your system colours go to the Help section under System Colour Setup.
- Report colours– We can now customize your reports and forms to use different colour fonts. For example, we could modify reports to display negative in red, or totals in blue etc. If you would like to find out more about customizing your reports, please contact your Minotaur account manager.
- Minotaur now offers the ability to link image files with your item codes and have them print on various forms. If you are interested in finding out more about how you can have images print on your forms contact your Minotaur account manager.
- You can change the way a column sorts on a screen by simply double clicking on the column heading. Double click again to reverse the sort.
For more information on any of the items listed above please contact your Minotaur account manager. |
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 Play our Autumn word search for your chance to win a
$50 M&M Meat Shops gift card. |
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Fax your entries to 905-458-5585 by December 15, 2011
Name: _______________________ Company: _____________________ |
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In an effort to share winner’s photos with other Minotaur customers, please enter the contest only if you are comfortable submitting a photo. |
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| Congratulations to September’s contest winner |
| Congratulations to Lisa Wilson from Polar Magnetics Ltd for winning the Back to School Contest. Lisa has won a $25 gift card to Staples. |
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 Polar Magnetics Inc. has been a Minotaur customer for over 13 years. Polar manufactures a wide range of laser cut gifts and souvenirs including magnets, key chains, coasters and picture frames.
Lisa has been working at Polar Magnetics for 17 years. She takes care of accounting and customer service. Lisa is an avid quilter and enjoys spending time with family and friends. |
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| The information in this newsletter is provided to customers to use at their own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice. |
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