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Your business is
our business
Jonathan Green
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Nine to FIVE

CHARGE
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Canada Safeway
annou
Wednesday it will
begin accepting
MasterCard
credit cards for
all purchases,
including
groceries.
Starting late next
week, the
Calgary-based
supermarket
giant’s 237
Safeway and
Food For Less
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Western Canada
will accept
MasterCard,
becoming the
first major
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Canada to offer
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TOUGH
TIMES

Job prospects for
the country’s 1.5
million

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ore than meets the Eye

KATS Trophys &
Engraving is
more than just

trophies

Jonathan Green

NEWS REPORTER

Without even knowing it,
you’ve probably seen Karen
Hughes’ work in and around
Castlegar.

At the hospital. The
Community Complex. The high
school.

And for those of you who
venture out that way, even the
pulp mill.

Hughes and her husband

awards needs for four years now
from their store on Columbia
Avenue.

The Hughes’ entered the
business when they took over
the existing B° and W
Engravings from then-owner
Ken Hayashi in 1988.

“I was looking to get into
business,” Terry said, adding
that their timing was perfect.
“He wanted out of business, I
wanted in.”

have been serving the area’s ©

for busine:

Karen and Terry Hughes have been servicing the area’s trophy needs for just over four years. Since opening
KATS Trophys & Engraving has become hi

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continued to
deteriorate last
month and are
now the bleakest
in more than
eight years,
Statistics
Canada said
Monday.

SHIP
SHAPE

A second Asian
shipping line
announced that
Vancouver will
be first port of
call in the Pacific
Northwest on its
transpacific -
service. Japan’s
NYK Line, which
operates in
conjunction with
Singapore-based
Neptune Orient

A long- time Safeway
employee, Terry said the desire
to be his own boss had always
been with him.

“I always dreamed of having
a sports shop,” he said.

But with Mallard’s and
Castlegar Sports Centre already
established in town, that dream
wouldn’t be realized.

Enter Hayashi.

After reaching a deal, the
Hughes’ took over B and W in
March and turned into KATS,
an acronym for Karen And
Terry’s Store.

Since then, Terry said things
have worked out quite well.

“We thought we’d give it a
shot and see what happened,”
he said. “We’ve been very
pleased.”

The Hughes’ set up shop at a
time when the market was in a
slump.

But, in time, that market

have branched out into custom printing and plastic signage, to name just two.

News photo by Jonathan Green

hu: nd wife

recovered and KATS started to
purr.

“Within a year, the
downswing was on its upswing,”
Terry said.

In the early days, the
company picked up where
Hayashi had left off, dealing
primarily in trophies and
engraving.

When they took over the
business, they inherited a
manual engraver.

Although the quality was
good, Terry said it was too time
consuming and that
modernization was important.

One of the first steps the
husband and wife team took
was the acquisition of a
computerized engraver,
something Terry said was
necessary to keep KATS going.

“Without this machine, we’d
be dead in the water,” he said. “I
—didn’t- want to fail
didn’t have the equipment

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In the early days, KATS
lived up to its name through
trophies and engraving.

“I wanted to make sure we
could do ins we said we could
do,” Terry said.

But before long, the Hughes’
realized that to survive, they
had to diversify.

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“Trophies is not the thing
anymore,” he said. “You couldn’t
do just trophies.”

Through diversifying,
Yrophies and engraving have
now become secondary at KATS.

The company now
manufactures ribbons, buttons,
pins and name tags, to name a
few.

But the item that has been
the most successful for KATS is
plastic signage.

“That’s been our bread and
butter,” Terry said.

Through the engraver, Karen
is able to turn a plastic called
lamacoid into signs and name
bars from the Complex to the
high school.

In addition to the lamacoid,
KATS has also been successful
at custom printing on items like
shirts and hats.

Unlike the traditional process

ttern-onto
an article of Sicthing, KATS
uses a process called
sublimation.

By doing so, the pattern or
picture is etched into the
material, and cannot be washed
or peeled off.

wae goes ba into the
material,” Terry said.

Getting back to trophies,
Terry said a lot of people believe

that better prices can be found
by ordering from Vancouver.
This, he added, is not only

untrue but it can be more -

trouble than it’s worth.

By ordering locally, people
will pay less and avoid the
hassle of returning faulty
merchandise to a dealer 622
kilometres away.

“We manufacture these
trophies from square one,” he
said. “Before (the customer)
even leaves the store, they’ll
know if they have everything
they wanted.” :

Although he doesn’t see
KATS being listed in the next
Fortune 500, Terry admits that
the company has done well.

For that, he thanks the
people who have come to KATS
from the day they took over
from Hayashi to present day.

“Most of our customers are
very loyal,” he said.

“People didn’t know me from
Adam and still supported us.”

And to thank them for that
support, Terry says KATS
makes an effort at personal
service and boosting local
sports.

“If people are going to
support me, I’m going to
support them,” he said.

“Anything for the customer.”

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