Back in 2016, the Ontario Glass and Metal Association honoured Dolores Primo with its Lifetime Achievement Award at its spring golf tournament. It marked the first time a woman had won the award. Primo was a true groundbreaker and not just in the glass industry She started work at Pilkington in Concord, Ont., in 1971 when it wasn't very common for women to work out of the house at all. In her ac-ceptance speech, she talked about her third position in the industry (at a different company) in 1980 and how she had trouble persuading her bosses to give her an outside sales role because they doubted a woman could handle it. She showed them, racking up impressive sales for eight years before leaving to start Armourguard. She built that into $5 million company before selling it to HGP (now Oldcastle Glass) in 1997. Primo worked as the general manager there until 2003, when she left to start ProTemp Glass - a $25 million company by the time she retired in 2009.
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