Happy February – Air Miles promotion!
2014/02/01
Take advantage of the last month of our winter Air Miles promotion – all qualifying orders delivered by the end of February will earn DOUBLE Air Miles®!
The Name Denbow
We are often asked the question of how Denbow became our company name. President Bill Boesterd shares the story:
It was the summer 1981, July 1st, and we were in business. The run up to this date was filled with what we felt were more important activities than determining how we should structure the legal identification of our business, thus we set up a simple partnership between Joanne and myself and decided our business name would be B & J Transport.
B & J, short for Bill & Joanne. The trucks were all lettered up – hand painted in those days, so no quick accomplishment!
B&J Transport Ltd.
A few months later, with the advice of our accountants, it was decided that an incorporated entity, for various reasons, was a better business structure to operate under. On investigation we discovered that B & J Transport Ltd. was not an option, as the name in too close to another firm that was already in existence. We needed a new name.
We started writing down as many names as we could think of that would give us memorable identity. Branding never entered our minds. Among the many options was Denbow Transport Ltd. My Dutch European last name originally was DenBoesterd. As a result of some naming complications, my Dad had shortened that up to Boesterd. Boe can be pronounced Boo or Bow. Thus the shortened version Denbow came about as an option. Nothing complicated, no exciting strategy or thought process. Just a simple option.
On a cold, wet winter morning after our trucks and their loads of live poultry were safely delivered to Scott Poultry in Port Coquitlam, five drivers and myself sat down at our favorite breakfast restaurant in the area. After coffee was poured, and the usual light banter quieted down, I pulled out my list of approximately 20 carefully thought through potentials to rename our company. To this day I still remember how quickly we came to a consensus. The new name, we all agreed, if it could be, would be Denbow Transport Ltd. That settled, we enjoyed our favorite breakfasts, and carried on with our day.
A simple process, decided on by few truck drivers and now Denbow is a name we assemble under collectively with pride and gratitude.
And now….you know the rest of the story.
Bill Boesterd, January 2014
The Denbow team today with our current logo
Denbow Staff Christmas Videos!
We had a little fun with some staff members… for your viewing pleasure 🙂
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Merry Christmas from Denbow!
Denbow’s team wishes you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are thankful for our relationship with you and look forward to seeing you in 2014 🙂
Our office over the holidays are:
Christmas Eve – closed at noon
Christmas Day & Boxing Day – closed
Friday December 27 & Monday December 30 – open 8am-5pm
New Year’s Eve – closed at noon
New Year’s Day – closed
Friday January 2 – open 8am-5pm
Enjoy your time off!
Our new trailers!
If you’ve been driving the highways between Chilliwack and Merrit this week, you may have seen the newest addition to our fleet! Paul has been pulling our brand new B-train walking floor trailers… and they are sporting our new look:
Winter Air Miles promotion!
2013/11/28
Denbow is offering a Winter Air Miles promotion this season on all your purchases!
Earn DOUBLE rewards – that’s TWO Air Miles for every $50 spent!
The Story of Change
Last week we brought you the Story of Stuff video.
Today we follow up with the Story of Change. This video “takes viewers through an inspiring exploration of what effective changemaking has looked like through history—from Gandhi in India to the US Civil Rights movement to the environmental victories of the 1970s—and shares the things you’ll find whenever people get together and change the world: a big idea, a commitment to working together, and a whole lot of action. She also let’s viewers know that making change will take all kinds of people, offers a series of changemaker identities and ends the movie with a question for viewers: Which are you?”
source: http://storyofchange.org
The Story of Stuff Project
Have you heard about The Story of Stuff video?
“The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives.
We have a problem with Stuff. We use too much, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well. But that’s not the way things have to be. Together, we can build a society based on better not more, sharing not selfishness, community not division.”
At Denbow, our services include recycling many different wood waste products that would otherwise likely be burned or fill landfills. We use the materials we produce on various erosion and sediment control projects. These applications save our soil from erosion and reduce sediment runoff in our water. We believe that our “innovating naturally” solutions help us be better stewards.
Take the time to watch The Story of Stuff video… it will make you think!
source: storyofstuff.org
The 10 Greenest Cities in the World
Vancouver is included on this list of the 10 Greenest Cities in the World.
At Denbow, we are honored to play a role in greening up Vancouver and our Fraser Valley with many of our Green Infrastructure products – from green roofs, roof-top gardens and urban gardens, to stormwater management and our Cascadia Green Wall System.
“Ambitious, necessary, and possible” is the road map for Vancouver becoming the greenest city by 2020. “This plan sets the course toward realizing a healthy, prosperous, and resilient future for [Vancouver]. It calls on us all to rise to the challenge of transforming our community to create a better life for future generations.” For more information and implementation updates, click here.
Timelapse video: PlayChips
Check out our new timelapse video showing a playground surfacing conversion from pea gravel to PlayChips that we completed for the District of North Vancouver. The timelapse is on our YouTube channel here.
For more information about this service and project, click here to see the project profile.
