| 2009 |
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Budget Marine sponsors another innovative event, the inaugural Match Racing event as part of the Heineken Regatta, making history in the Caribbean. This event extends the St. Maarten Heineken regatta to almost a full week of sailing fun. Peter Holmberg, previous skipper on Alinghi when he won first prize at the America's cup. Participants included teams from Russia, Brazil, the UK and the United States. |
| 2008 |
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Compulutions, a Dutch company is selected to automate the process of producing the annual Budget Marine 500 page full-color catalog. |
| 2007 |
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Budget Marine sponsors the inaugural Commodores' Cup, as part of the Heineken Regatta. The ABN Amro One, skippered by Mike Sanderson, winner of the Volvo Ocean Race 2006, wins first prize. |
| 2007 |
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Nautique moves from its Simpson Bay Yacht Club location to the St. Maarten main store sales floor, where a special marine style area is created to feature Nautique stock. |
| 2007 |
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Further expansion of the Budget Marine St. Maarten facility adds 4,300 square feet warehouse space in the next door building, linked by a bridge to the main store and a large covered area for dinghy storage. Group office area and conference room are improved. |
| 2007 |
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Hard and software upgrades substantially improve the efficiency of the IT system. |
| 2007 |
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Budget Marine Curacao, Parera, introduces a rigging service, swaging wire up to 10mm. |
| 2006 |
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Budget Marine St. Thomas moves to its new, custom built chandlery. |
| 2006 |
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In St Maarten Budget Marine’s Marketing and Group Services expand, adding office space and a new Conference Center for meetings and customer service training. The dinghy dock is upgraded. |
| 2006 |
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Budget Marine Curacao opens a second store in the Curacao Marine facility. |
| 2006 |
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Budget Marine publishes first colour catalogue with over 400 pages. |
| 2005 |
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Budget Marine Curacao introduces Free Shuttle that takes boaters from the marina to the chandlery daily. |
| 2005 |
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Budget Marine VI moves from Vitraco Park into an expanded store in the independent Boatyard St Thomas location. |
| 2005 |
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Robbie Ferron is honoured by the Queen of the Netherlands with a knighthood for his exceptional pioneer work in the yachting business and personal service to the sport of sailing on St Maarten and throughout the Caribbean. |
| 2004 |
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Budget Marine Curacao opens in Caracasbaaiweg. |
| 2004 |
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Budget Marine St Maarten expands the sales floor and warehouse space by 1/3 and the building is painted in bright Budget Marine colours, clearly visible across the entire Simpson Bay Lagoon. |
| 2003 |
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Budget Marine Grenada store moves to its new building, ideally situated in the Spice Island Marine Services boatyard on the True Blue side of Prickly Bay. |
| 2002 |
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The Trinidad store moves to a bigger, custom-built facility and expands it’s wholesale and export business. The Independent Boatyard store in St Thomas is fully upgraded. |
| 2001 |
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Bigger dinghy dockage facilities constructed in Cole Bay, St. Maarten. Continue with opening of new locations in Bonaire, Kralendijk and in Grenada, Spice Island Boatyard. |
| 2000 |
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3 new locations open. In St. Thomas Budget Marine takes over the chandlery 'Marine Warehouse' in Vitraco Park, which is now called Budget Marine V.I. and operates the Boatyard Store in the Independent Boatyard. |
| 1999 |
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New main store premises built in Cole Bay, St Maarten and Budget Marine Rigging started in Trinidad. |
| 1998 |
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Decision made to build new St Maarten store and do away with 28 storage containers. |
| 1996 |
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Budget Marine opens up in Trinidad. |
| 1995 |
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Budget Nautique opens its doors. |
| 1994 |
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L’ile Marine opens up in Sandy Ground in French St. Martin. |
| 1993 |
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Jolly Harbour Antigua Budget Marine opens to public. |
| 1991 |
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Alfred Koolen joins Budget Marine. Budget Marine opens new facility upstairs in Priest Building in Philipsburg. |
| 1990 |
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More containers added...to Robbie’s collection. |
| 1988 |
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David de Vries joins Budget Marine. |
| 1987 |
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Budget Marine opens store in Lenny’s Building in Philipsburg. |
| 1983 |
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Robbie opens stockroom, and Helene, his wife at the time, works fulltime for the next 9 years helping to establish Budget Marine. |
| 1981 |
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Robbie buys first container as workshop. |
| 1979 |
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Robbie Ferron arrives in St. Maarten. |