{"id":1203,"date":"2014-03-19T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/19\/after-sochi-success-laval-firm-takes\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:15","slug":"after-sochi-success-laval-firm-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/19\/after-sochi-success-laval-firm-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"After Sochi success, Laval firm takes aim at Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">By Robert Frank<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of Show Canada\u2019s triumph staging the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies in Russia, general manager Pierre Marchand is heading off to Brazil to pitch a preliminary contract to develop concepts for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job is to provide the scenic elements for an artistic director or producer,\u201d he told <i>The Suburban<\/i> in an interview. \u201cWe\u2019re not in the forefront of the show. We\u2019re playing with toys in the background.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Show Canada, which employs some 150 workers in Laval, has been on a roll since its performance at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSochi was our biggest contract so far,\u201d Marchand said. \u201cWe\u2019re mainly an export company\u201480 percent of our business is done outside the country. Vancouver brought us to London. London brought us to Sochi\u2014and now Sochi might bring us to Rio.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He credits the city\u2019s business development agency Laval Technopole helping to cut through bureaucratic red tape to make the Sochi success possible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is quite complex to set foot in Russia with the intention to work there,\u201d Marchand said. \u201cTechnopole helped us to navigate the visa process, which for Canadians was quite complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Technopole also helped the company relocate in 2005, to a unique new purpose-built building in St. Vincent du Paul. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur core staff needed to be within easy commuting distance plus we needed the right mix of affordability, construction and space,\u201d Marchand explained. \u201cWith a 60,000 sq.ft. footprint, we have the highest-volume building in Laval and East End Montreal, with 70 ft. of open interior space overhead. <\/p>\n<p>The company also briefly had a West Island presence. It rented space in the former Dominion Bridge plant in Lachine to assemble, test and disassemble its Sochi backdrops. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sent 154 forty-foot shipping containers to Sochi,\u201d he recalled, \u201cand chartered cargo 747 jumbo jets. It was one of the single-biggest maritime contracts our freight forwarder has handled in Montreal.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the secret of the Laval company\u2019s success? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not what we do, it\u2019s how we do it,\u201d Marchand said. \u201cThey hire us because we have the entrepreneurial skill coupled with the will to deliver on-time, on-budget. That\u2019s why they hire us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you host the Olympics, you invest in the opening ceremony because your country is making a statement,\u201d Marchand concluded. \u201cThe entire world is watching, and you want to be seen at your best.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He noted that Show Canada was not associated with the Olympic ring props that failed to open during the opening ceremonies.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SHOW-CANADA-Iles-ouverture-Sotchi-1024x682.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/SHOW-CANADA-Iles-ouverture-Sotchi-1024x682.jpg\" height=\"213\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b>Despite its low local profile, Laval impresario Show Canada is a giant on the world stage, after developing and building backdrops for successive Olympics, like the Sochi opening ceremonies depicted here.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Hot on the heels of Show Canada\u2019s triumph staging the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies in Russia, general manager Pierre Marchand is heading off to Brazil to pitch a preliminary contract to develop concepts for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. \u201cOur job is to provide the scenic elements for an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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