Gorham's Limited

54 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 because of the initiatives we have planned. Also, it will be the first full year since pre- COVID that we will return to our normal retail environment and get people back into the store.” As the company prepares for the new year, some initiatives it has undertaken include planning for the return of in-store events for the Christmas period, the roll-out of an Epicor retail ERP and a planned increase of the lumber shed store square footage by fifty percent. “We are also undertaking a complete remerchandising exercise to bring in new stock for the Christmas and New Year season, besides sprucing up the store to make it more customer friendly and an overall hipper place to shop.” Some of the partners Gorham’s is relying on to make 2023 a success are Ace Hardware, Putnam Lumber, BlueLinx, Jeld-Wen, and Quikrete. Mackay is optimistic about what a post- COVID market will bring for the company, especially as the global economy stares down the barrel of a looming recession. “With COVID out of the way, it is now about assessing the business and seeing how we can fine-tune it to make it more efficient. We have all the initial steps in place and just need to take what we have and tweak the systems.” “We’re also looking at using employee training to change the mindset that retail is not a dead- end job but can be a career or profession.” “2023 will be the first full year with hopefully no major global events, and we are very excited about what it will bring for us and the global economy.” GORHAM’ S L IMI TED