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    Wholesale & Web with a Retail Front

    Here's what happens when optical wholesalers turn into retail suppliers for survival mode. Mr. DB has struck again with his arm length wholesale/web concept direct to retail storefront. If you're a DL customer in any of the regions listed on his website, your supplier is now your competitor.

    Nothing more than a pint size Coastal.

    http://opticalwarehouse.ca/

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    i didnt realize these guys were wholesalers to the trade.

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    Are you sying that Dir__T L_B is the above company.

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    And the owner of their lab is being prosecuted in Quebec for financial issues.

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    The whole story about this group has been questionable. But how do you stop someone with a wholesale lab from opening retail. Wholesale labs could use the arguement, ECPs doing in house surface/cut & grind is competion to them.

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    Good for the goose...............

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    Quote Originally Posted by coupe View Post
    Are you sying that Dir__T L_B is the above company.
    ding ding

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    Quote Originally Posted by qualitylenses View Post
    And the owner of their lab is being prosecuted in Quebec for financial issues.
    so i've heard.

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    Perhaps Chris Ryser might be able to translate those newspaper articles to English for us as they would have been printed in French in the Quebec newspapers perhaps in Trois Rivieres or Montreal

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    Blue Jumper Now also in Halifax ..................


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    Blue Jumper We don't have enough data to rank this website..........................

    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3...alwarehouse.ca


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    Their website does not even have any ranking, success is a long way away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by idispense View Post

    Perhaps Chris Ryser might be able to translate those newspaper articles to English for us as they would have been printed in French in the Quebec newspapers perhaps in Trois Rivieres or Montreal
    My buddy/computer translates just about every language in seconds. I would need the articles.

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    Just put it through google translate

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    Blue Jumper That is very nice, so you can read and understand........................

    Quote Originally Posted by qualitylenses View Post

    Just put it through google translate

    That is very nice, so you can read and understand. How about sharing with us and posting it here ?

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    More than half a million dollars in public funds are in jeopardy after being awarded to companies run by a businessman who was nevertheless prosecuted for bad debts.


    According to documents reviewed by our Bureau of Investigation, two companies run by Daniel Beaulieu, CEO of the company network DirectLab Three Rivers, received four years several public financial aid.


    DirectLab manufactures and markets lenses in optometry.


    Beaulieu, 55, has already been sued personally by the National Bank in 2009 and was ordered to repay the amount due in April 2012.


    Six state aid


    Despite the lawsuit, the companies Beaulieu received many public assistance:


    - Centre-du-Québec Regional Economic Intervention Fund (PROUD) granted DirectLab Capital funding from $ 500,000 in September 2012.


    - Innovation and Economic Development Trois-Rivières (IDETR) provided a loan of $ 125,000 to DirectLab Capital in November 2011.


    - The Local Development Centre (CLD) Drummond paid a loan of $ 75,000 to DirectLab Drummondville in June 2010.


    - Local Solidarity Fund of the MRC de Drummond also provided a loan of $ 50,000 in June 2010 to DirectLab Drummondville.


    - Investissement Québec was committed in January 2014 to make a loan of $ 200,000 to DirectLab Capital, but the amount was not paid.


    - An amount of $ 262,500 paid by Laurentian Bank is also guaranteed 80% by the federal government.


    In 2014, all loans are in arrears and organizations have gone to court to try to recover their bearings.


    According CLD Drummond, Beaulieu associates have already repaid the money they had condoned but itself has not repaid his personal share. It has not paid its share of the loan at Laurentian.


    A numbered company connected to DirectLab Capital was placed into bankruptcy on April 11.


    legal problems


    Yet a simple review of the court record of Daniel Beaulieu would have revealed that the businessman has not always been a good payer.


    In a lawsuit filed in 2009 against Beaulieu and two others, National Bank claimed it amounts to a draft of Optometry went wrong in Ontario.


    In April 2012, Beaulieu was ordered to pay National $ 235,000 plus interest charges. The amount was later reduced to $ 175,000. "The court does not doubt the efforts of Mr. Beaulieu who has traveled the world to find customers and financing. Unfortunately, during this time, the company was mismanaged, "said the judge. He added that "many reorganization plans put forward by Mr. Beaulieu" have not been implemented.


    The Chamber of Notaries was also fined in 2007 for accounting problems. He was removed from the House in 2009.


    When contacted, Mr. Beaulieu has himself admitted that he had been removed because he had never paid the fines due.






    PUBLIC MONEY PARTY IN SMOKE
    PROUD
    Centre-du-Québec
    $ 500,000
    due
    Local solidarity fund Drummond
    $ 38,214
    due
    Economic Development Corporation of Drummondville (CLD Drummond)
    56 $ 054.53
    due
    Innovation and economic development Trois-Rivières
    144 $ 626.18
    due
    Loan program for small businesses (PPE)
    $ 262,500
    (money lent by the Laurentian Bank, but 80% guaranteed by the federal government)
    CLD was not aware of the problems of the businessman
    The Local Development Centre (CLD) of Drummondville admits he was not aware of the legal action initiated against Daniel Beaulieu at the time of the loan.


    "You teach me. Normally you do an audit, but now it has escaped us, "said the industrial commissioner, Martin Dupont, CLD Drummond.


    According to Miller, it is not certain that the CLD succeed in charging Beaulieu are missing. The CLD has obtained against him and three associates in March a judgment against them pay 56 $ 054.53. "He has not paid its share. We will look at how much it will cost us in legal fees. If it costs more than it should, we can not go further, "said he said.


    radio Silence


    - The CEO of IDETR, an agency funded by Québec and Trois-Rivieres, Yves Marchand, has denied his side all our requests for interviews. IDETR continues DirectLab Capital for $ 626.18 144.


    - The CEO of PRIDE Centre-du-Quebec, Yvon Pellerin has not called us back.


    - The Fund QFL put the blame on the CLD Drummond for his investment and did not want to comment. The spokesman Patrick McQuilken, even refused to tell us how the Fund had been in the adventure.


    - Investissement Québec did not want to comment on the case. "It's the people you meet PROUD" told us spokeswoman Chantal Corbeil.





    Still in business despite the failure of a company
    Although government loans entrusted to companies it administers are suffering, Daniel Beaulieu is still in business, has seen our Bureau of Investigation.


    In a document sent to potential investors, it is presented as authorized agent of The Warehouse bezel, a company run by his wife.


    In an interview, he nevertheless denied being involved in the management of The Warehouse. "I'm just a supplier," he has said.


    DirectLab network is still in business, despite the failure of a numbered company majority owned by Capital DirectLab in which a claim of $ 500,000 PROUD of Centre-du-Québec is registered.


    "There is no connection between Capital and DirectLab DirectLab Network. There is no connection between Network and DirectLab DirectLab Drummondville, "Has he said by telephone. During the interview, he nevertheless identified DirectLab Network as the parent of DirectLab.

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    Wow
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    Redhot Jumper More than half a million dollars in public funds are in jeopardy ....................

    Quote Originally Posted by qualitylenses

    More than half a million dollars in public funds are in jeopardy after being awarded to companies run by a businessman who was nevertheless prosecuted for bad debts.


    According to documents reviewed by our Bureau of Investigation, two companies run by Daniel Beaulieu, CEO of the company network DirectLab Three Rivers, received four years several public financial aid.
    Well, well well. I never saw or heard about this in the news.

    That is part of Canadian Governments financing private industry.

    So now I would like to know how much DB is involved with the Optical Warehouse.

    I could find a lot on Linkedin but no connection to the Warehouse.

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    Company Name: RESEAU DIRECTLAB INC.
    File Number: 8619140
    Filing Province: Québec
    Filing Status: Active
    Filing Date: August 27, 2013
    Company Age: 1 Year 3 Months
    Principal Address:
    240 Rue Des Forges Bureau 302
    Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 2G8
    Company Contacts
    DANIEL BEAULIEU
    Director
    JEAN-MARIE POMERLEAU
    Director
    THEODORE HAHN
    Director

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    Company Name: DIRECT LAB PACIFIC INC.
    File Number: 7994885
    Filing Province:
    Filing Status: Active
    Filing Date: October 11, 2011
    Company Age: 3 Years, 1 Month
    Principal Address:
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    Company Name: DIRECT LAB ATLANTIC INC.
    File Number: 7864051
    Filing Province: New Brunswick
    Filing Status: Active
    Filing Date: May 13, 2011
    Company Age: 3 Years, 6 Months
    Principal Address:
    20 Wyatt Crescent
    Saint John, NB E2J 4J5
    Company Contacts
    DANIEL BEAULIEU
    Director
    JEAN-MARIE POMERLEAU
    Director
    THEODORE HAHN
    Director

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    Company Name: DIRECTLAB CAPITAL INC.
    File Number: 7552793
    Filing Province: Québec
    Filing Status: Active
    Filing Date: May 14, 2010
    Company Age: 4 Years, 6 Months
    Principal Address:
    Care Of: Daniel Beaulieu
    2545, Rue Sidbec Sud
    Trois-Rivières, QC G8Z 4M6
    Company Contacts
    DANIEL BEAULIEU
    Director
    JEAN-MARIE POMERLEAU
    Director
    THEODORE HAHN
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    Interesting..............

    are they banking on an Essilor takeover down the road ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Ryser View Post
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    Well, well well. I never saw or heard about this in the news.

    That is part of Canadian Governments financing private industry.

    So now I would like to know how much DB is involved with the Optical Warehouse.

    I could find a lot on Linkedin but no connection to the Warehouse.
    Check their facebook.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HindSight2020 View Post
    Check their facebook.
    Did you get in on their Black Friday promotion Hindsight?

    Regards,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Golfnorth View Post
    Did you get in on their Black Friday promotion Hindsight?

    Regards,
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    Even when crap is free, it's still just crap. So I doubt anyone with half a brain would see through that.

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