This year marks a very special anniversary for Norwex Industries.
The cleaning products company was launched 30 years ago in Norway, with its Canadian distribution centre opening 25 years ago here in Dauphin.
The company's 30th global anniversary will take place this Monday here in Dauphin, and co-founder Debbie Bolton is excited to return to our city for the celebration.
"I am excited to be coming back to Dauphin on Monday to celebrate. In our industry, there are very few companies that hit 30 years. So we are quite excited about celebrating this and so thankful for the past and casting a vision of what we see for the next 30 years are going to look like."
Bolton is excited to have seen how much the company has grown here in that time.
"We actually shipped from Dauphin to the United States for the first 14 years that we were in business. But as the company grew, we needed to add a distribution centre in the United States. But we kept the one in Dauphin, and the one in Dauphin services all across Canada. And when we started in Dauphin we had two staff members and 11 sales consultants for Manitoba and Saskatchewan. And today we have almost 60 employees in Dauphin. During peak times that number goes way up. And that Dauphin Distribution Centre serves 30,000 sales consultants across Canada. "
The anniversary celebration begins at 11:30 on Monday at the Dauphin Distribution Centre on Whitmore Avenue East.
Bolton says there will be several dignitaries in attendance, tours of the facility, and they are also bringing in their sales consultants from across the country to see where Norwex products are shipped from in Canada.
