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© N 3 < 2 5 £ 4 T : IVIC 3 = Car S 7z For & C €] = W > \ = accessorie 2 more iter eyer Imports Lid., a M‘:un-rluu-hasud ome and garden accessories company, has one more item to place on its shelves: the Top Ten Product Award from the Canadian Gift and Tableware Association {CGIA) The award was given to Meyer Imports for their twoâ€" foot tall cast iron Vesta Fire Burner. A gel at the base of the frame is lit on fire, with patâ€" terned cutouts in the cast iron exterior allowing a pleasant glow from the fire to be seen. The fireburner has become a popular patio and garden accessory. Ten products were selectâ€" ed from companies across North America by the CGTA for the award; however, Meyer Imports was the only compaâ€" ny from Waterloo Region. The Top Ten Awards recipiâ€" ents are selected on the basis of the originality, innovation, visual appeal and selling potential of their product. Taking a digital peek into the past at the Internet Archive Meyer Imports receives respected product award It all seems so simple, but in reality the Internet is a flowing sea of unrelated and everâ€"changing information that is truly difficult to navigate. Search engines help out but can provide an overwhelming number of results for simple queries. n television and in the O movies you occasionally see characters logging onto the Internet to perform some type of research. â€" For example, when you try a Google search "Alexandre Dumas" Discover the star within. Carrun CarPENTER Por the Chronicle Erica Kirkland, editor of CGTA‘s Retail News publicaâ€" tion, says, "The CGTA‘s Top Ten Product Award is one of the most coveted retail awards in Canada and is awarded after intense judging from a panel of Canada‘s top you will find just over half a mil tion hits {search results}. Adding this phrase to your query will narrow your search down to about 43 thousand pages on the Internet. Perhaps you‘re particularly interested in his story "The Three Musketecrs®. Let‘s say it was 3 a.m. in the morning, and you were looking for the actual text of "The Three Musâ€" keteers" to do some research for a paper that is due the next mornâ€" ing. BUSINESS giftware retail He says Meyer Imports‘ cast iron fire burner was selected because "It is quite simply one of the best retail products available on the market." John Meyer, coâ€"owner of Meyer Imports, says, "We always appreciate being recâ€" ognized for our work and it dictates to us where the trends lie." The award was presented at the CGTA Gift Show on Sunday at the Toronto Interâ€" There‘s no way you could find a library that was open or a librarian that would help you complete your paper. The Internet Archive, located at hitp://archive.org/ is run by a "nonâ€"profit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,‘ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, Just because you leave things to the last minute shouldn‘t conâ€" demn you to a failing grade. Lucky for you, the "Internet Archive" can come to your rescue. The trade show allows members of CGTA, a nonâ€" profit industry association for giftware wholesalers, to disâ€" play their wares for retailers. Along with text and ifustrations being archived from existing book collections all over the world, this Internet library is amassing audio, video, software and a good portion of the Internet itself, all in the name of preserving cultural artiâ€" facts. and scholars to historical collecâ€" tions that exist in digital format" according to their website. When browsing through the Internet Archive site, I was curious to try the "Wayback Machine". This Although the CGTA has over 1,600 members, Meyer Imports is one of the largest whotesalers at the Toronto show. Meyer. who attended the trade show with other Meyer Import staff, said, "The fire bumer is a product we put on the market for the boomers (demographic) and it‘s workâ€" ing out well, We see the demographics here at the trade show; a lot of boomer customers made comments on the fire burners, saying that they were very attracâ€" tive." Though their main operaâ€" tions are conducted from their Waterloo headquarters, Meyer Imports has a sales team working across North America. While the company is wellâ€"known in retail and wholesale circles, the compaâ€" ny does not sell directly to the public. Meyer Imports was foundâ€" ed in Waterloo in 1977 by Renso Meyer and is now managed by his children, John Meyer and Sonya Meyer Noguera. favourite accessory boutique Continued on page 17