Brush With Success
Florida entrepreneurs win exposure to millions of potential customers--and dollars.
It's the ultimate prize for any inventor--a free two-minute infomercial introducing your product to the world. That's just a small part of what Joe Durek and Lou Lentine, owners of Orlando, Florida-based Lentek International, received as winners of the Inaugural Product Showcase held at the annual Electronic Retailing Association convention on October 17-19, 1999 in Las Vegas.
The product that helped the duo win by only one point is a waterless pet brush that keeps your pets clean and repels fleas. "Instead of using sprays and chemicals, the brush [uses an air purification system to remove odors from pets]," explains Lentine, 28, adding that the brush also contains an environmentally safe flea repellant.
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