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Kristina Urquhart
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Editor and Founder, The Vintage Seeker
Canada, Toronto
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Biography
Kristina Urquhart is the founder of The Vintage Seeker and the Vintage Sellers Community. As an advocate for resellers and a consumer herself, Kristina connects the worlds of buying and selling with educational content that shows people where they can find sustainable secondhand stuff, and that helps sellers reach more secondhand shoppers. Kristina is a magazine editor and a business journalist who has been developing content and hosting events for niche audiences in the arts, manufacturing, technology and retail sectors since 2007. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she is passionate about building high-value content that contributes to market growth. Born into an entrepreneurial family herself, Kristina believes in the power of small businesses to make a difference in their local communities. About The Vintage Seeker We create content that connects conscious consumers with the shop owners who make the vintage market vibrant, and we build programs to help sellers grow sustainable businesses. The Vintage Seeker launched in April 2021 as an online magazine and community for vintage vendors, antiques dealers, shoppers and supporters of the secondhand economy. In October 2022, The Vintage Seeker launched the Vintage Sellers Community, a professional development and networking membership designed for sellers to engage and improve their business skills. We currently publish industry news and newsletters, educational content, profiles and interviews, an events calendar, free downloads, webinars, virtual events and exclusive content. Visit thevintageseeker.ca to learn more about our work.
Reselling Antiques, Secondhand, Circular Economy , Retail, Resale, Vintage , Social Media
gadgets, b2b
Content
By Kristina Urquhart Verified| Automotive News Canada Verified In Windsor, Industry 4.0 is providing relief in a tight labour market for automation specialist Reko International Group Inc. The company recently supplied robotic equipment for an automaker in the EV space. Connected technology simplified the installation, which, to make adjustments, used to require an operator to move between the equipment and a control panel outside the robot cage.
By Kristina Urquhart Verified| Automotive News Canada Verified Kayla Wade, sales manager at a Nova Scotia Hyundai dealership, knows firsthand how having informal networks and the opportunity to try a new role can advance a career. In 2018, Wade joined Bruce Automotive Group in Middleton, N.S., about 150 kilometres northwest of Halifax, as an accounts-payable clerk. Within nine months, she’d transferred to finance manager at the Bruce Hyundai dealership in nearby New Minas, a move that exposed her to the sales side of the business.
By Kristina Urquhart Verified| Automotive News Canada Verified Frank Hasenfratz didn’t know it then, but the sound of a washing machine in his Guelph, Ont., basement sparked the innovation that would launch Linamar Corp., now a $5.8-billion global auto-parts supplier. It was 1964. Hasenfratz, a refugee from Hungary and a machinist, had recently quit his parts-making job in frustration after his employer failed to lower its scrap rates — a quality metric that Hasenfratz would measure in his own plants for the rest of his life.
Company Info
The Vintage Seeker