1) In July 2012, 45 Imagine representatives and managers from Ontario and western provinces attended a two-day vendor training session in Toronto where several key vendors presented on their products. 2) Vendors from Globe, 3M, Bosch, Karcher, Speka, and Formation provided overviews of their product lines, merchandising strategies, and return policies. 3) Representatives were able to ask questions and provide feedback to vendors, and some vendors let representatives demo products and provided promotional items.

1. Imagine Vendor Training - Ontario

2. Imagine Vendor Training - Ontario
On July 17th and 18th 2012 we had our first two day interactive Imagine vendor
training session in Toronto. Several key vendors shared their expertise with
45 key Imagine reps and managers from Ontario and the western provinces.
The presentations focused on in-store merchandising and product
specifications along with pk knowledge. Our representatives and experts
provided feedback and observations with the presenters based on our in
store relationships and experiences.
We made the best of our two days of training as you’ll see in the selection of
images on the slides that follow.

3. Imagine Vendor Training - Ontario
Our group of 45 reps eager and ready for the presentations to begin

4. Julie Penard from Globe provided us with a thorough and comprehensive
breakdown of her products along with how to best serve customers needs.

5. John from 3M provided our reps with a great overview of the tapes, Command
items and Filtrete furnace filters.

6. Vanessa Laredo did an outstanding job covering her products and helping our
reps with questions.

7. Sean Porter and John Sisson brought the Bosch trailer and provided a great
presentation to our reps

8. Sean Porter and John Sisson brought the Bosch trailer and provided a great
presentation to our reps

9. James Feere from Karcher provided an
outstanding overview of their items and
how we can merchandise and grow the
business at Rona. Also, two lucky reps
won his display units!!!

10. Rob Land provided us with an overview of Speka and the RTV policies

11. Yves Menard gave us a great breakdown of the various pumps and accessories
available and clearly covered RTV policy as well.

12. Mike Woolf and his team provided a comprehensive overview of their line of
tools, talked about RTV, etc. Best of all, they took us outside and let us use the
tools and provided us with catalogs and t shirts!!

13. Mike Woolf and his team provided a comprehensive overview of their line of
tools, talked about RTV, etc. Best of all, they took us outside and let us use the
tools and provided us with catalogs and t shirts!!

14. Formation
Thanks to our vendors for
their support!