It is quite apparant to me that the current path for Quickscrews is heading in the right direction. We have spent the better part of a year now re-organizing ourselves and coming out leaner and stronger. Unfortunately the rest of the economy is still lagging far behind and it doesn’t seem apparant much will change next year.

Quickscrews will be exhibiting all of our outstanding products next week at the National Industrial Fastener Show at the Mandaly Bay Convention Center in  Las Vegas, Booth 1030. Please come by and view the wide variety of products (over 2,000 different SKU’s).

           Change for Quickscrews is defined differently. First we look at where we have been for the past 22 years and wonder where can we grow? Where can we expand? Those questions seem easy, yet in a severe recession these are no small tasks. So lets begin with where to grow. We feel very strongly that more growth can come from expanding our customer base to include a variety of industries which we typically have not penetrated for one reason or another. Our outstanding line of Drive Bits and Nutsetters will be marketed to a whole new set of potential Quickscrew customers. This product line has had continual growth for 8 years now. We must expand our customer base to continue to fuel growth in new markets. We must agressively pursue growth within our customer base and ask ourselves what else can we be doing? Today we must be lean and effective for if not we will not continue to grow. Many business people have uttered the phrase Grow or Die and in today’s environment that may be closer to the truth than has been in a very long time.

Greg Wiener

Owner

Quickscrews International Corp.

           As I watched this past weekend and saw the House of Representatives pass what appears to me as the most dangerous and intrusive  legislation to ever have been voted on in America. Why do I think it is dangerous? Simple it attacks the very premise this country was founded on. You might ask how? This country was founded on man’s ability to strive for excellence, the freedom to push ideas to market and prosper from those ideas. The beliefs that success for one benefits all, the belief that liberty and property rights are inalienable. Many free market individuals believe we should promote and reward success. The free enterprise and capitalistic system insures that success is rewarded and failure is punished, yet done so equally and without prejudice;  unless of course there is outside interference, for example our government.

          Once the government begins picking winners and losers in the free market, the free market itself is at great risk. Individual liberties and freedoms can rise or fall on this interference. More importantly it is not the role of government to interfere with the free market; it is the role of government to promote and regulate the free market.    

       We have seen how massive government intervention has worked before. Huge entitlements like Medicare and Social Security will be either bankrupt or completely insolvent by 2030. Amtrak is billions of dollars in the red and the post office is all but insolvent. (more…)