Thomas & Betts Announces Garage Make-Over Promotion Winner

Thomas & Betts Announces Garage Make-Over Promotion Winners

July 12, 2016

Thomas & Betts Canada has announced the winners of the Star Teck fittings “Win a garage make-over promotion,” which ran from March 1 to April 29, 2016.

With every $100 purchase of Star Teck fittings, electrical contractors had an opportunity to enter a draw to win one of four prizes, including the garage make-over grand prize.

The four prize winners, whose names were randomly drawn from close to 35,000 entries, are as follows:

  • Grand prize garage make-over (a value of $12,000) — Bert Doppenberg of Abbotsford, BC
  • Air compressor — Ledcor Projects Inc. in Edmonton, AB
  • Jobsite radio — NexSource Power Inc. in Sylvan Lake, AB
  • Toolbox — Pronghorn Controls Ltd. in Calgary, AB

Thomas & Betts will post a before-and-after video of the garage transformation online later this summer. Rob Ruys, Regional Manager and Ed Atkinson, Industrial Sales Representative for Thomas & Betts were on hand at to surprise Bert Doppenberg with the news that he had won the grand-prize garage make-over.

Check out a video with his reaction and comments at www.tnb.ca/stpromo.

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