{"id":9178,"date":"2014-12-03T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9178"},"modified":"2014-12-23T23:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T04:30:49","slug":"local-inventor-emerges-victorious-with-four-offers-from-cbcs-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/local-inventor-emerges-victorious-with-four-offers-from-cbcs-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Local inventor emerges victorious with four offers from CBC\u2019s Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporters packed Aurora\u2019s Boston Pizza last Wednesday night to see a local competitor emerge victorious from Dragon\u2019s Den. <\/p>\n

Inventor Adam Pauze and business partner, retired baseball player Cliff Floyd, came out of the hit CBC series with offers from four out of five Dragons for the Drywall Axe, a three-in-one tool that combines a blade, tape measure, and writing utensil, which has been a good seller at Canadian Tire, its exclusive Canadian retailer.<\/p>\n

Although they kept their decision to go with the offer from Arlene Dickinson under wraps until the show aired before an at-capacity bar, their excitement over what was to come was palpable as they waited for their segment to come on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty nervous today,\u201d said Mr. Pauze after seeing a teaser for that evening\u2019s episode online.<\/p>\n

Added Mr. Floyd: \u201cThis is a great turnout and I think that is the biggest thing. People are really interested in us doing something different. We\u2019re in a good spot right now. It has been three long years back and forth, but now we\u2019re right to the point. We can\u2019t say what the ending is, but we are anticipating a really good one!\u201d<\/p>\n

The foundation for Pauze and Floyd\u2019s business partnership came out of Floyd\u2019s marriage to Pauze\u2019s daughter. When the father-in-law came up with the invention after cutting his arm working on a drywall project, his son-in-law immediately saw the value in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the concept was great and I thought I would take a chance,\u201d said Mr. Floyd. \u201cIt is about backing somebody that you love, care about, and it is something really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

While they ultimately went with Arlene\u2019s deal, Mr. Pauze and Mr. Cliff have since cracked the American market, signing a deal last month which will see the Drywall Axe hit shelves in Lowe\u2019s U.S. arm, and at other outlets in the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis company is going to take it worldwide,\u201d said Mr. Pauze. \u201c[Appearing on Dragon\u2019s Den] was more like a marketing standpoint. We got exposure and a lot of people came out tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supporters packed Aurora\u2019s Boston Pizza last Wednesday night to see a local competitor emerge victorious from Dragon\u2019s Den. <\/p>\n

Inventor Adam Pauze and business partner, retired baseball player Cliff Floyd, came…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-12-04-04.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2o2","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 10:54:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}