International Boxboard Sales started the day the boxboard section of the Trent Valley Division of Paperboard Industries shut down. Don Reid, General Sales Manager and Nancy Ewens, Office Manager and Senior Sales Rep, were told that fateful morning that the mill had been sold, and the boxboard section was in the process of being dismantled. Nancy contacted the customers she was responsible for to advise them what had occurred and to let them know that she and Don were starting their own company. One of Nancy's long time customers gave them their first order. Don who had already been in the industry for 45 years, and knew just about all of the mills in North America, lined up a source of supply.

They began selling Chipboard grades to customers they had built relationships with over the years. For the first couple of months business was conducted from Nancy's basement, but by March 1992 they were able to move into an office in Richmond Hill. The company, with the support of their customers and suppliers alike, has grown over the last thirteen years to now include many different grades of boxboard, a sizeable inventory, the ability to supply a variety of products and services, and to ship product all across Canada and into the United States.The staff has increased to include both inside as well as outside sales personnel.

Don, who has now been in the paperboard industry for 57 years, followed in his father's footsteps (another papermaker of long standing - 50 years to be sure) when he started with Howard Smith Paper Mills in 1947. He was with them until 1954 when E.B. Eddy asked him to inaugurate a sales promotion program for both paperboard and fine paper grades. Ready for a new challenge, in 1965 he joined Consolidated Bathurst to market kraft papers, paperboard and linerboard across Canada. In 1974, Don thought it was time to learn the waste paper market and moved to Consolidated Fibres, the largest waste paper dealer in North America. Don was offered a position with Trent Valley Paperboard Mills, in 1978, to oversee the sale of all grades in Canada and the United States. Don is a long-standing member of the Canadian Paperbox Manufacturers Association's Quarter Century Club. At the 2000 annual paperboard convention, Don was the recipient of The Bill Bainbridge Award for honesty and integrity in the paperboard industry.

Nancy started in the industry in 1976 when she joined Trent Valley Paperboard Mills as the secretary to the General Sales Manager and the Comptroller. In 1978 she became the company's statistician, and by 1982 was offered a place with the sales team, we believe as the first woman Mill Sales Representative. Between 1982 and 1992 she achieved the position of Senior Sales Rep and Office Manager, having attained her goal to be the highest selling rep in the company. Nancy wrote a computer program for quoting, enabling the sales personnel to quote customers in a timely fashion. She coordinated with the mill personnel in the implementation of an order entry system allowing the sales department to send the customer's orders electronically to the mill. Nancy was inducted into the Canadian Paperbox Manufactures Association's Quarter Century Club in October 2002, the first woman to be inducted into this club in many years.