Laura Hansen

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  www.womensenterprise.ca/enews/March2008.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2008    Last Visited: 9/5/2008  

  Laura Hansen, President and Co-founder of Image Group
  
  Originally founding the Image Group in 1992 with her husband, Colin Hansen and another couple, Laura has led the company on her own since 1996, overseeing its growth to revenue of more than $10 million in 2007, and 19 full-time employees.
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  To help grow her business, Laura knows the value of networking.She sits on the boards of the Women President's Organization and the Vancouver Executives Association.Believing that business and community are interdependent, Laura also gives back to the community through her work with the Minerva Foundation and the Endeavour Society.

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  www.straight.com/article-152871/alerting-youth-schizoph - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/11/2008    Last Visited: 7/11/2008  

  When mental health is left out of the classroom, young people glean information from misleading sources such as television shows, movies, and sensationalist news coverage, observed Laura Hansen, team director with the Vancouver/Richmond Early Psychosis Intervention Program.
  
  "I think you can see it, not just in the news stories but also in TV shows," she observed in a phone conversation.

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  Published on: 7/1/2008    Last Visited: 8/17/2008  

  Laura Hansen - Image Group Vancouver, BC
  
  Since 1996, Laura Hansen has been the owner and president of Image Group Inc, a promotional products company located in Vancouver.In her first two years as president, Hansen nurtured the company's revenue from $140,000 to over $500,000.Hansen even guided her burgeoning company through a massive economic downturn that forced them to expand their customer base while simultaneously curbing their spending.In 1992, JBI merged with another company to form Image Group, which has now grown into a multimillion-dollar enterprise.Thanks to Hansen's stupendous leadership skills, she has been rewarded not only with incredible success, but with honors like an Influential Women in Business award, a Top 100 Canadian Women Entrepreneurs honor, and a Women in the Promotional Products Profession award.As a member of more than a dozen professional and charitable organizations, Hansen is sure to steer her company even further down the road of success in the coming years.

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  Published on: 2/1/2008    Last Visited: 10/11/2008  

  Laura Hansen Image Group, President

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  www.biv.com/iwib/2008/iwib03.asp - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 10/10/2008  

  Since co-founding her company in 1992, Laura Hansen has overseen a dramatic increase in revenue which eclipsed $10 million in 2007
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  The power of positive relationships has propelled Laura Hansen, president of promotional products distributor Image Group Inc., to increasing levels of profitability.

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  www.vanex.com/events/event.php?ID=231&Date=2007-03-21 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/21/2007    Last Visited: 3/28/2007  

  Laura Hansen, Image Group

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  Published on: 8/26/2006    Last Visited: 3/28/2007  

  Laura Hansen, Image Group

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  Published on: 3/14/2007    Last Visited: 10/2/2008  

  We are pleased to partner with NWCC to offer education awards to Aboriginal women," states Minerva Foundation's Board Member, Laura Hansen.

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  Chatelaine.com : Working at balance - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/23/2002    Last Visited: 10/18/2002  

  Name Laura Hansen
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  Laura Hansen may run a booming company, but her closest confidantes aren't in business.They are, however, close to home: her sons Ross, 19, and Marten, 16."When I'm talking to them about the things near and dear to their hearts, it really forces me out of the work world and that mindset," she says.The boys also bring their friends home with them and Hansen loves to hang out with the group."Teenage boys are a reality check for me," she says."It's totally different from people at work and it's refreshing."
  
  Not that Hansen doesn't enjoy being at the office.As president of Vancouver-based Image Group, which sells promotional products ranging from logo-splashed mouse pads to fleece jackets, Hansen leads a company that netted almost $6.2 million in 2001.But it can be a challenging niche--Image Group has to work both with the suppliers who make the products as well as the clients who buy them."We have to stay on top of tech tools--whatever [software] they're working with, we're working with," says Hansen.
  
  The business has changed in other ways, too.When Hansen started it in 1992, she had three partners.Four years later, Hansen took control.While she faced a steep learning curve, she says the fundamentals of the business stayed the same: "Everything is based on relationships.If your clients don't like you, they won't buy from you."
  
  Hansen's good relationships with her sons and their friends have actually helped her at work."A lot of products we sell are targeted at their age group and I'll bounce ideas off them," she says.
  
  But the real benefits are far less tangible.

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  Griffin House Screenprinting and Sportswear - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/26/2006    Last Visited: 1/11/2008  

  Another long-time customer, Laura Hansen, President of Image Group - one of Vancouver's largest advertising specialties distributors - sums up her experience this way: "Griffin House is a great company to work with!

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