In the Media Spotlight
Burnt Out Solutions has been featured in the press! Check out the household-name journals talking about products made right here at BOS.
Team Canada trade mission good fit for Burnt Out Solutions
As published in NovaNewsNow.com
Friday, October 27, 2006
By Brent Fox
Their products are healthy and smell great. What’s more, Burnt Out Solutions representatives are taking part in the Team Canada Atlantic trade mission to Florida.
Sponsored by ACOA and other agencies and the four Atlantic Provinces, the mission goes from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2.
Valley Firm Lighting Up American Market
As published in The Halifax Herald Limited
Friday, August 5, 2005
By Suzanne Robicheau
Co-owners Les Falconer and Perley Beairsto have cause to celebrate. Almost five years ago, the two Kings County men partnered with two Americans to produce soy wax candle. Product manager Michelle Kulyk was their first employee.
Prospects burn bright
for soy candle company
As published in The Regional Magazine
by Patty Mintz
Running a successful business is one thing. Doing it with respect
for the environment and a social conscience is another. One Valley
company does all of that and then some.
"The Nelson Mandela of candles" is how Yuki Hayashi, a senior editor at Style At Home magazine, described a line of products being made by Burnt Out Solutions in New Minas. The article appeared in The National Post.
The Nelson Mandela of candles
As published in the National Post
by Yuki Hayashi
Aside from some pre-teen dabbling in the black arts, candles have never been part of my mise en scène. Outdoors, they're fine on the deck, but indoors they seem like a lot of trouble. Fire hazard. Toddlers love trying to mess with them. Cats singe their whiskers on the flame. And if you are not a smoker, there is the entire why-am-I-paying-to-breathe-in-poison angle, as most candles are paraffin-based, that is to say, derived from petroleum.
