P.E.I. vinyl record company wins local dragon contest

The co-owner of KaneshiiVinyl Press has won the2017 Dragon's Contest held by the provincial Francophoneeconomic development council of P.E.I. in partnership with the Acadian Chamber of Commerce.

GhislaineCormierwas one of thefinalists that made a pitch to the judges, or dragons at the Acadian Entrepreneur's Gala in Summerside, P.E.I.

Cormier said hercompany fills a gap in manufacturing services in Canada by pressing vinyl records.

She addedthere has a been steady increase in the resurgence of vinyl records over the past 10 years.

"Surprise, extremely happy. You know you work really hard to try to put together projects and convincing pitches and get all your information together. It's a lot of hard work so it was really great to see that the community supported theproject."

Cormierwon $10,000, free memberships for chambers of commerce and professional website help.

Shesaidsome of the money will be used for new machinery, computers, and marketing.

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