|
| 2007 |
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 |
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 |
Hard and software upgrades substantially
improve the efficiency of the IT system. |
| 2007 |
Budget Marine Curacao, Parera, introduces
a rigging service, swaging wire up to 10mm. |
| 2006 |
Budget Marine St. Thomas moves to its
new, custom built chandlery. |
| 2006 |
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 |
Budget Marine Curacao opens a second
store in the Curacao Marine facility. |
| 2006 |
Budget Marine publishes first colour
catalogue with over 400 pages. |
| 2005 |
Budget Marine Curacao introduces Free
Shuttle that takes boaters from the marina to the chandlery
daily. |
| 2005 |
Budget Marine VI moves from Vitraco
Park into an expanded store in the independent Boatyard
St Thomas location. |
| 2005 |
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 |
Budget Marine Curacao opens in Caracasbaaiweg. |
| 2004 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
New main store premises built in Cole
Bay, St Maarten and Budget Marine Rigging started in Trinidad. |
| 1998 |
Decision made to build new St Maarten
store and do away with 28 storage containers. |
| 1996 |
Budget Marine opens up in Trinidad. |
| 1995 |
Budget Nautique opens its doors. |
| 1994 |
L’ile Marine opens up in Sandy
Ground in French St. Martin. |
| 1993 |
Jolly Harbour Antigua Budget Marine
opens to public. |
| 1991 |
Alfred Koolen joins Budget Marine.
Budget Marine opens new facility upstairs in Priest Building
in Philipsburg. |
| 1990 |
More containers added...to Robbie’s
collection. |
| 1988 |
David de Vries joins Budget Marine. |
| 1987 |
Budget Marine opens store in Lenny’s
Building in Philipsburg. |
| 1983 |
Robbie opens bedroom as stockroom. |
| 1981 |
Robbie buys first container as workshop. |
| 1979 |
Robbie Ferron arrives in St. Maarten. |
