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Minute Men Moving & Storage

Minute Men Moving & Storage Facility Upgrade

You may have heard that Minute Men Moving & Storage is expanding their facilities.  They are currently in the process of building a new warehouse, which is expected to be finished by April 2020.

In building the new warehouse Minute Men is helping create multiple jobs in Nanaimo throughout the entire planning and construction phase of the project.  With the expanded facilities Minute Men will also have the chance to grow their own staff including their professional moving crews and their office staff.

Their new warehouse will be the newest and largest state of the art facility of its type on Vancouver Island, which is an exciting addition to Nanaimo.  With Nanaimo being centrally located, it allows Minute Men’s products and services to be offered throughout Vancouver Island, thus helping drive the Nanaimo economy.

With the building of the new warehouse comes some great enhancements to their business.  In the past, they have stuck mostly with residential moving and storage, but with the growth they will be able to facilitate commercial storage and warehousing.  Their use of container storage can be increased since the new facility is planned to be much larger than their current one.  Minute Men Moving and Storage will also be a fully functioning Customs Bonded warehouse facility.  This will be the only one in the mid island.

The building of a larger warehouse is not the only plan on the horizon for Minute Men Moving and Storage.  Their goal is to continue the expansion of their current residential professional moving and storage services, and grow a moving, storage, and warehousing solution to the commercial sector.

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2019 Nanaimo Busines Awards – Best Inclusive Employer

COCO Café is a Social Enterprise with a mission to provide employment, training, and socialization opportunities for people with developmental disabilities.  Their business model is unique to them.  Most similar community programs are just that, “community programs” where people with developmental disabilities are given the opportunity to participate in a workplace setting, not necessarily being paid and often being part of more of a social and recreational program.  At the Coco Café all their employees are paid industry-standard wages or higher and offered a full benefits package.  All their employees are part of the team and contribute to the success of the business.  This is especially important for those employees with developmental disabilities to feel the rewards of contributing to their workplace success and being part of their community.

Recognition of the accomplishments of COCO Café is wonderful for their committed team “who work hard to maintain the focus of effort on a daily basis to provide a supportive work environment.”  Equally as important, winning this award raises the profile of the organization, its mission, and the possibilities of running a successful and truly inclusive workplace.

In 2017 the COCO Café introduced new efforts in their commercial retail food department incorporating new products such as healthy family meals, stuffed Yorkshire puddings, and chicken enchiladas to their already popular hand-folded potpies and soups.  These meals are sold in their retail food freezer on sight and through local grocery stores.  They are excited to be expanding their opportunities by opening a new commercial kitchen space dedicated to meeting the demand of their growing catering and commercial retail operations.  This new kitchen will create a space to allow them to meet the demand for their product and provide more supported employment opportunities.

Check out their website at www.cococafe.ca, like them on Facebook at Coco Café & Cedar Opportunities Co-operative, or follow them on Instagram at @cococafecedar

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