Corporate History
| 1984 |
Jean-Luc Rivet establishes Étalage Rhô. The company offers in-store display services and creates a wooden mannequin named ERHÔ. |
| 1987 |
Rhô is incorporated. Located on St-Urbain Street in Montreal, the company creates a line of products that include decorative elements and bust forms of thermoformed plastic.
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| 1991 |
Rhô acquires its first building on 15th avenue in Montreal’s St-Michel district. Jean-Luc Rivet develops new plastic transformation technology by using rotomoulding in the manufacturing of mannequins, busts, accessories and much more for the clothing industry. |
| 1997 |
Rhô opens its sales office and showroom in Toronto. The company participates in its first annual NADI trade show in New York. Rhô also ads to the manufacturing of mannequins the development and sale of it’s own Illico System™, a modular system designed around a telescopic column, using aluminium accessories, created by designer Michel Fortier. |
| 2000 |
Rhô acquires a 25,000 sq. ft. building on Parkway Boulevard in the Anjou industrial sector. The company ads to its activities the distribution of mannequins from Europe and Asia.
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| 2008 |
Rhô shares a permanent showroom on 25th Street in New York with an important Montreal store fixtures company. |
| 2009 |
On September 9th, the head office and factory in Anjou are engulfed in a major fire, a total loss. From a temporary location, in one month only, the company resumes the production of the Illico System™, as well as the manufacture of new mannequin moulds. In December, Rhô purchases a 32,000 sq. ft. building also located on Parkway Boulevard in Anjou and begins renovating it to its own image. |
| 2010 |
On June 9th, Rhô inaugurates its new plant, showroom and offices. |
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Today, Rhô inc. and its founder Jean-luc Rivet offer their clients far more than mannequins, forms, accessories and the Illico System™. They offer exceptional know-how and experience. Rhô is a way of life!