Brave Control Solutions Inc. buys Lakeshore company CITY DESK A Windsor, Toronto and soon-to-be Detroit engineering company announced Thursday the acquisition of Engauge Controls Inc., a Lakeshore-based industrial engineering firm known for providing system integration. Brave Control Solutions was ranked 15th on the PROFIT 500 rankings as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies. The engineering [...]
Risk pays off for Brave owner GRACE MACALUSO, WINDSOR STAR Brent McPhail chose the height of the Great Recession to leave a good job and launch a new business. The risk has paid off. In less than six years, Brave Control Solutions, has grown from a one-man start-up, operating out of McPhail’s home office [...]
When you’re a young company, you’re prone to taking any work you get. But what do you do when that work ends up being a giant money pit? Only a few years into running our company, we got caught in a disaster of a project. Mismanagement and poor communication among a complex string of [...]
The first really big project our firm won was with a race car tire manufacturer. It was a huge win for a company as young as ours, and we were extremely excited. The deal was worth $350,000. That might be peanuts to some, but for us, it was a big deal. Of that, about [...]
Like so many entrepreneurs, I forged my startup in situations that were far from ideal. I launched Brave Control Solutions at the start of 2008… Serving a client base made up mainly of auto manufacturers… In Ontario’s industrial heartland. To say the banks were afraid of me is a massive understatement. There was no [...]
