/CNW/ - Showcase, recognized as "Home of the Hottest Trends", and just named one of Canada s Best Managed Companies for the second consecutive year, today.
/PRNewswire/ - Showcase, recognized as "Home of the Hottest Trends", and just named one of Canada s Best Managed Companies for the second consecutive year,.
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By Briony Smith Showcase has more than 100 stores across Canada and the U.S. (Courtesy of Showcase)
When Showcase founder Amin Jivraj opened his first store in Edmonton in 1994, he always made sure he had a notepad by the cash register to write down any new customer product requests. The store would fax this info to the head office, creating a daily hit list of items for the buyers to source and purchase. His number one goal? Give the customer what they want.
Almost three decades on, the “home of the hottest trends” has given millions of customers exactly what they want, from Tae Bo workout videos to Shopkins collectible toys and surpassed $100 million in revenue doing it. “Today’s Showcase model is simply a modernized and tech-enabled version of that original intent,” says CEO Samir Kulkarni. The brand has 107 small, ultra-efficient, high-traffic stores in Canada and 10 in the U.S., with plans to open hundreds more locations featuring Showcase’s signature