E-Mail: eholden@potters.com

Profile: Our Boss got his start in business when he was eight years old selling Kool-aid by the exit door of a local Legion.  Everybody paid him a nickel cause he was young and looked industrious, but nobody wanted any.  (After 3 or 4 pints of beer, who would?)  In high school he organized noon-time sock hops (dances) in the school gym. He convinced the principal it would be great fun and totally non-profit, then got the bands for free and charged everyone 50 cents. By the second year he was making more money during the lunch hour than most of his teachers were making all day.  Seriously though - He got his start in the plant business in 1975 when he co-founded a store in downtown Langley that sold tropical plants.  He sold that store in 1982 and started White Rock Nurseries, a wholesale greenhouse operation.  Under the trade name ‘Tried and True,’ the company built a solid reputation importing new plants from Europe, which it produced and sold across Canada and into most of the U.S. In 1991 he opened the first Potters store on 152nd Street.  The second store on 72nd Ave opened in 1993. The third on 192nd St. in 2001, which was replaced with a state of the art 28,000 sq ft facility in 2008. And a fourth store in Ocean Park in 2010.