Golden Windows Celebrates 60th Anniversary

From its roots as Golden Triangle Windows, a humble Kitchener millwork plant producing woodframed windows in 1961, Golden Windows is celebrating its diamond anniversary this year.

Still a family-owned and operated organization in its third generation, the company owes its growth into a noted Canadian window and door manufacturer to a pretty basic principle, notes owner and president Paul Kreutner.

“We respect people—including our customers and vendors—as a core value,” says Kreutner, whose company now has retail locations in Kitchener, London and Kanata.

It’s also exemplified in the longstanding tenure of the company’s employees. “For 60 years our people have been the framework of our success,” says V.P. of Sales and Marketing J.R. Rapoza. “Although family-run businesses tend to struggle as the generations pass, we’ve continued to grow exponentially, with three generations of the Kreutner family providing strong leadership.”

Rapoza believes the company’s participation in ISO 9001 quality management certification has spurred growth in recent years.

“We’re one of only a few window and door companies that have obtained that designation,” Rapoza says. “It brought us to a new level of understanding of how to create and repeat processes and procedures to provide quality products and services to our served markets on a consistent basis.”