About Us
History
Alke’s Enterprises Inc. has been working on product development since 1987. After completing the design in the 1990’s, we were faced with finding people to assemble the products. Wanting to be a different kind of company – we decided to give work opportunities to adults in the community who have developmental disabilities. We made this decision because having a family member with a learning disability, we knew gainful employment for them is hard to find.
Over the past 8 years of assembly and sales we are still seasonal in nature and are always looking for different applications for our stock products, and our IP.
We have been on a ‘CBC” TV Network Reality Series “The Dragon’s Den” Season III, scheduled to air on TV Nationally later this fall.
Location and Facilities
Our products and retail displays are all hand assembled by our employees here in Edmonton, AB. We are located in Edmonton’s South Side, with great access to all major roadways. We have contracted Excel Resources to produce our products, given the raw materials.
Community Support
We employ adults in the community with Developmental Disabilities, thereby giving them work opportunities to gain a sense of self-esteem, self worth and pride. They have an opportunity of feeling they are a part of society. When they see the product that they worked on earlier in the year sitting at the store front counter impulse section, they get very excited and have been know to comment to those around them that, they were responsible for building the Lump O’ Coal. We have heard stories similar to this, and it give us as owners the satisfaction that we are making a difference in the lives of those we offer work opportunities to with our product.
Please contact the Excel Society for more information.
Memberships
Alke’s Enterprises Inc. is a member in good standing with the We take part in The Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors Conference and we also participate in a number of local and long distance trade shows. We are registered with the GS1/EccNet. EDI is another way we communicate orders with our customers.
Other things we have done is prepared a TV commercial. Thru the growing pains of our company, contents of our container have changed over the years from a mass produced foiled chocolate, to a higher quality belgian chocolate with gummi bears. Next we experimented with a flavored candy in a bag, one year, then individually wrapped the next. We found with all the changes, it made it very tough to keep up with the multi-billion dollar mega giants, so we have settled on a non food item. This is the product we bring to you today. A cutie stuffed keychain that voices “I Love You”. There are 12 to collect.
Here is a brief look at our product. This was created in 2002!