@BizLondon cover story about Moffatt & Powell
/From Business London magazine, @BizLondon, July, 2014
Nancy Powell-Quinn has a vivid childhood memory of typical Sundays, stretching back three decades. Coming home from church, her father would detour to his lumber and building supply store in Strathroy to catch up on paperwork while it was closed.
“My older sister Jennifer and I were dressed in our Sunday best and we would run around the store, playing in the showers and having a lot of fun,” she recalls. “It was great.”
Today, Nancy, 35, could easily recreate the moment with any of her own children – boys, 6, 4 and nearly 2 – in a setting very much like the one she and her sister enjoyed some 30 years ago.
Her father’s business was Moffatt & Powell, a lumber shop founded in 1956. Since 2010, Nancy and her husband, D’Arcy Quinn, have owned the company her father built with his past and present business partner, Keith Moffatt. Her father continues as an advisor and interested observer, but they have owned it for the last four years, during which time they have modernized and expanded, doing what it takes to compete against behemoth competitors in an industry as sensitive to economic slowdowns as Ontario voters are to Hudakian austerity plans.
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