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    QAI and Helio RV featured on The Globe and Mail

    News | 7 October, 2022

    The Co-founder of QAI’s client “Helio RV” explains how their company grew from an idea to an industry leader!
    QAI Laboratories’ compliance services benefit companies like RV Helio who want to enter international markets.

     

    “Jean-Roch Lacroix is the co-founder of Helio RV. The company offers HE3 series trailers at their headquarters in Lavaltrie, Quebec.CHRISTINNE MUSCHI”

     
    “Like many great ideas, Helio RV was born at the ice rink.

    Co-founders Jean-Roch Lacroix and Marco Leblanc would chat at the local arena as their children took figure skating lessons.

    Mr. Lacroix grew up camping and was looking for a trailer so he could bring his children on the kind of adventures he enjoyed as a boy. Mr. Leblanc was a long-time entrepreneur looking for a new kind of adventure himself.

    “We would chat every time we were at the arena,” Mr. Lacroix says. “My partner had a business for 30 years and he wanted to diversify and [work] with his son and create something new.”

    Eventually, the friendly chats became serious discussions… “

    Continue reading at The Globe and Mail…

    Attribution: Images and excerpt taken from the original article by The Globe and Mail and Dene Moore.

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