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  WINNIPEG -- For 35 years, Acryl Design in Winnipeg made custom parts and fixtures for manufacturers and stores -- that all changed when the pandemic hit a year ago. “We were sort of out of business, I would say, because all the industries we were supplying they just sort of shut down,” said owner John Wardrope Wardrope said a large customer canceled a major contract and he had to make a gut wrenching decision. “We shut down the system and I actually had to lay everybody off,” he said. Similar to other business owners who were blindsided by the overnight impact of lockdowns an...

NBG reveals board and regional changes for 2021 10 March, 2021 Jimmy Stewart, Rachel Fryers and Rex Nye National Buying Group (NBG) has welcomed a new Executive Board member and three new Regional Chairs, as well as extending the terms of two other Board members for 2021. Rachel Fryers, Director of Merritt & Fryers Ltd, has joined the NBG Executive Board in place of Peter Worthington. The family-ran merchant, located in the Yorkshire Dales, has been serving the both the professional trades and the publ...