Allied Widget Inc.
We make objects of beauty
The Allied Widget Story
Allied Widget Inc. began life in the late 1980s as a company that imported, designed and installed kitchens made from melamine cabinetry manufactured in Poland. It operated under the tradename "Kitchenhawk."
After a few years of steady growth the company was forced into receivership by an unscrupulous real-estate developer who refused to pay his bills. A protracted lawsuit resulted in the company having to close down.
Allied Widget Inc. was subsequently scooped up by an investor for the value of its book losses. Over a number of years it was used as a tax write-off and sat idle, without vocation.
Minus assets and stripped of any value save its name, the investor sold the corporate entity for a dollar to a family member who gave the company a second life as a property management firm. For almost a decade, Allied Widget Inc. successfully managed 500,000 square feet of industrial property in the garment district of Montreal.
In late 2004, the properties managed by the company were sold-off and for the second time in its short corporate life, Allied Widget Inc. was stripped of its assets and purpose.
Now, in its third incarnation, Allied Widget Inc. has gained new life as a publisher of fine limited edition books, particularly poetry.
As suggested by its generic name and history of multiple incarnations, Allied Widget Inc. has embodied the qualities of re-birth, re-imagination, re-conception and renewal.
We invite you to join with us in sharing the spirit of continuity and renewal by purchasing and enjoying the beautiful things currently made by Allied Widget Inc.
Allied Widget Inc. began life in the late 1980s as a company that imported, designed and installed kitchens made from melamine cabinetry manufactured in Poland. It operated under the tradename "Kitchenhawk."
After a few years of steady growth the company was forced into receivership by an unscrupulous real-estate developer who refused to pay his bills. A protracted lawsuit resulted in the company having to close down.
Allied Widget Inc. was subsequently scooped up by an investor for the value of its book losses. Over a number of years it was used as a tax write-off and sat idle, without vocation.
Minus assets and stripped of any value save its name, the investor sold the corporate entity for a dollar to a family member who gave the company a second life as a property management firm. For almost a decade, Allied Widget Inc. successfully managed 500,000 square feet of industrial property in the garment district of Montreal.
In late 2004, the properties managed by the company were sold-off and for the second time in its short corporate life, Allied Widget Inc. was stripped of its assets and purpose.
Now, in its third incarnation, Allied Widget Inc. has gained new life as a publisher of fine limited edition books, particularly poetry.
As suggested by its generic name and history of multiple incarnations, Allied Widget Inc. has embodied the qualities of re-birth, re-imagination, re-conception and renewal.
We invite you to join with us in sharing the spirit of continuity and renewal by purchasing and enjoying the beautiful things currently made by Allied Widget Inc.
Word Widget Division
Poem
by Robyn Sarah
A poem is a small machine
to move the heart.
Set it at 'start'
and let it shift the mind
from one plane to another.
When the heart's a heavy stone
the mind can't hope
to lift alone,
slip it between.
The poem is a lever.
Reprinted from "A Day's Grace" by Robyn Sarah
by permission of the Porcupine's Quill.
Copyright (c) Robyn Sarah, 2003.
Poem
by Robyn Sarah
A poem is a small machine
to move the heart.
Set it at 'start'
and let it shift the mind
from one plane to another.
When the heart's a heavy stone
the mind can't hope
to lift alone,
slip it between.
The poem is a lever.
Reprinted from "A Day's Grace" by Robyn Sarah
by permission of the Porcupine's Quill.
Copyright (c) Robyn Sarah, 2003.
