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WHAT’S IN YOUR TOOLBOX?

Chris Allinotte, WRLA

What’s in a name? For a company that makes it easier for other businesses to modernize, “Toolbx” is just about perfect. They offer multiple solutions, all customized to the unique needs of their clients.

Finding ways to help construction and building supply professionals do business better has been the mission of the Toolbx team since day one. In 2018, founders Chris Stringer and Erik Bornstein realized that there was an opportunity to provide a delivery service to the many job sites around the Greater Toronto Area. Construction companies would place their orders, and the team would pick them up and deliver it the same day. This saved countless hours of lost time at the building sites, which no longer would have to send out their own crew members to pick up needed materials. At first, they used their own personal vehicles, recalled Connor McCarra, Director of Customer Marketing at Toolbx. Later, as the operation grew, and they wanted to keep growing their capacity, the company subcontracted the actual delivery operation to fleets that could handle any size of materials order. The most important thing to come from these first days was the conception of Toolbx as a building materials platform. This software was the seed that would grow into the e-commerce solutions that they offer today.