hockey, his dream is to win the Stanley Cup. For me and curlers across Canada it is to win the Provincial Curling Championships and then represent your province at the Stanley Cup of Canadian curling, which is the Brier,” explains Scott. Scott lived his dream this past March in Ottawa, Ontario. Keeping things relevant to who they are and what they represent is more at the heart of the business model and the success at New Scotland Clothing Company than it seems. “Our customers are constantly telling us that they’re happy to see our labels and know that the majority of our clothing is made in Canada. And soon,” Kevin teases, “we will have Nova Scotia made products!” Stanfield’s Limited, a 160-year-old family owned garment manufacturer out of Truro, Nova Scotia whose progeny are amongst the mainstays in Nova Scotia provincial politics and infrastructure – Robert Stanfield, the namesake of the Halifax Stanfield International Airport was the grandson of company founder, Charles Stanfield and the 17th Premier of Nova Scotia as well as the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1967-1976 – is eager to do business with New Scotland Clothing Company. “It’s quite exciting to be able to say that you are collaborating with a 160-year-old Canadian company,” explains Scott,” but to be able to follow our main goal, staying local and using local content all at the same time, makes it that much better.” “We were really trying to design something that exemplified the Scottish pride that so many of us curlers have in Nova Scotia.” “We’ve had a dialogue dating back to early 2015 with Jon Stanfield, President of Stanfield’s Limited,” Kevin recalls. “Just last year we sat down for lunch together and now we are an authorized retailer of their Truro made products with our private labels printed on. The first t-shirt design will debut later this summer and it’s really exciting, not to mention some speciality underwear and sweaters we have stocked already.” The Saccary name seems to be a good fit alongside the Stanfield name. On May 7 New Scotland Clothing Company launched a kiosk at the Halifax Stanfield Inter- national Airport to great applause. New Scotland Clothing Company products can also be found near the world famous Murphy’s: The Cable Wharf Restaurant on the historic Halifax waterfront from where the iconic Bluenose II schooner departs twice daily. Their standalone shop is located beside Historic Properties and the Gahan House Restaurant on the boardwalk.
These satellite locations are 26 minutes and 9 minutes,
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS • JULY 2016
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