Company name: FC Wood Works Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Owner: Rick Mostert Year founded: 1987 Primary products:
Custom commercial architectural millwork
Annual sales: $2.1 million Number of employees: 19 Shop size: 11,000 square feet Key equipment:
➤ Altendorf computerized F45 sliding table saw
➤ Brandt edgebander
➤ Masterwood CNC for drilling, boring, doweling
➤ Microvellum software for CAD ➤ Trakware software
➤ Ritter case clamp
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One touch — The Trakware software system starts with an estimate and follows through every job with just one touch on this touch screen.
When Rick Mostert, owner of FC Wood Works in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, was looking for a software program to run his business in 1998, he discovered Trakware. “It was a program that was way beyond my capabilities and means, but I had the forethought to grow into it,” says Mostert. “I didn’t want a program that I grew into, only to find out that I’ve grown out of it.”
The initial cost of the program equaled the salaries of at least two employees, and at the time, Mostert’s sales were at only about $300,000 annually, so it was not something Mostert approached lightly. However, the program ultimately increased his earnings to a point that allowed for significant growth.
“It helped me grow faster than I would have expected, but with a lot more control, and it’s helping me continue that way.”
Although FC started in a garage as a one-man operation in 1989 doing residential work, it now does custom commercial architectural millwork using a variety of materials. Today, the shop has 19
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