LAVAL,
QC, March 21, 2024 /CNW/ - Geekco
Technologies Corporation – (the
« Company » or « Geekco »)
(TSXV: GKO), announces the deployment of its Tell Me application
throughout Québec and its entry into the Ontario market by serving the complete network
of its partner Poulet Rouge. Starting today, all restaurants in the
chain will use Tell Me to introduce their brand and products to the
Tell Me community.
« Poulet Rouge is a growing Quebec restaurant chain, innovative and
popular with young consumers. Today, we are very proud to extend
our collaboration to their entire network and thus be able to
introduce Poulet Rouge to our users throughout Quebec and Ontario. This support for Tell Me from a brand
with such notoriety motivates us to continue our efforts and our
development. In the coming weeks, we will offer new features as
well as the arrival of new partners with the aim of becoming an
everyday tool for users and merchants. » says Mr. Mario Beaulieu, CEO.
« We would also like to point out that we will be present
this weekend in partnership with Poulet Rouge at Happening
Marketing which is being held at HEC. This University competition
is the most important in Eastern
Canada. A great initiative directly linked to our target
customers. » he adds in closing.
« Innovation is at the heart of each of our initiatives.
This is where Tell Me comes into its own because it is innovative,
easy to use and connected with young consumers. It will allow us to
introduce our brand to young people, attract new customers to our
branches and recruit our future employees. Tell Me is part of our
initiatives to generate growth and our constant efforts to satisfy
and get closer to our customers, our franchisees, our employees and
the community. Taking advantage of the visibility offered by Tell
Me while helping to stimulate the economy in each city and each
neighborhood throughout our network is, in our opinion, a winning
formula." mentioned Mrs. Karine Dubé, Local marketing director of
Poulet Rouge.
Chief Financial Officer
Geeko is pleased to announce the appointment of Faycal Salek as Chief Financial Officer.
Faycal Salek has been a member of
the Quebec CPA order (CPA) since 2004. He holds a bachelor's degree
in business administration as well as a specialized graduate
diploma in public accounting from the Ecole des Hautes Études
Commerciales (HEC). He is a consultant to small and medium-sized
public and private companies in accounting, financing and financial
analysis. Faycal acted as CFO for several companies including the
GSoft Group and the Hitlab Group. He also served as deputy director
of professional inspection for the Ordre des CPA du Québec as well
as director and president of the audit committee of Perlite Canada
Inc., a crude and expanded perlite and vermiculite producer, while
it was listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Concurrently with this appointment, effective immediately,
Geekco announces the departure of Xavier
Harland, as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Geekco
management would like to thank him for his contribution to the
organization.
Geekco also announced the grant to Mr. Salek of an aggregate of
150,000 options to acquire as much class A shares of the
Corporation at an exercise price of $0.08 each. All said options are valid
for 10 years. Options are vesting in 25% increments per
completed six-month period following their issue date.
ABOUT POULET ROUGE
With its network of 42 branches across the province of
Quebec and Ontario, Poulet Rouge stands out for its tasty
bowls of grilled chicken prepared to the customer's taste and in
front of them. Their bowls are bursting with real, fresh
ingredients: Canadian halal chicken tenders, nourishing whole
grains, crunchy vegetables and delectable flavors. At Poulet Rouge,
quality can be tasted, heard and seen! The company does everything
it can to build relationships with its customers and make a real
impact in our communities. Poulet Rouge is good! Good for the body,
the mind and the
community.
ABOUT GEEKCO
Geekco is positioned at the forefront of technological solutions
that are evolving the new way of doing marketing while stimulating
and energizing the economy of each city and each neighborhood by
making consumers and shops interact like never before. Its FlipNpik
application allows users to discover businesses around them in real
time using the interactive map, access exclusive rewards and even
find a job. Shops thus increase their traffic and their visibility
while recruiting their future employees. All this in the same
app.
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SOURCE Geekco Technologies inc
