The Story In 1966, John S. Richardson founded SugarCreek in Washington Court House, Ohio and began producing bacon for grocery retailers out of a 10,000 square foot concrete block facility. Five years later, his son John G. joined the company full-time and by the time leadership transitioned into the second generation in 1990, SugarCreek had […]
Continue readingThe Story In 1976, Glen White founded Steelway Building Systems. A second generation tobacco farmer with a life-long passion for building things, he turned his entrepreneurial dream into reality by providing farmers with steel building trusses and equipment. From those humble beginnings, Glen and his wife Pat grew Steelway into Canada’s leading supplier of steel […]
Continue readingThe Story In 1966, Ralph Cator, after learning the butcher trade in his father’s retail stores in Toronto, co-founded Cardinal Meats Specialists. Driven by the vision to make his mark in the foodservice industry, he turned Cardinal into a leading supplier of burgers, ribs and other products to quick service restaurants and the wholesale market. […]
Continue readingThe Story Written as an entrepreneurial life story and legacy book, A History of Success captures the fascinating story of Canadian immigrant entrepreneur Paul Tuerr (1920–2012). In following Paul’s steps from his childhood days in pre-World War II Europe through his immigration to Canada in the 1950s and growth as a visionary entrepreneur in the […]
Continue readingThe Story In his autobiography ghostwritten by HBS’s Dr. Ulrich Frisse, John Heffner Sr. reflects on his remarkable life trajectory that spans two centuries as well as two continents. Born into an ethnic German family in Gara, Hungary, in 1929, John Heffner lived through the tumultuous years of the Second World War and personally experienced […]
Continue readingThe Story In 1946, Oscar Kuntz laid out his dream of starting his own business in a letter to his mother: “I hope I never get too old to dream… because some day those dreams will come true…” They did! Two years later he founded Kuntz Electroplating. Today, his dream lives on in North America’s […]
Continue readingThe Story As a young boy Vernon Erb, founder and Chairman of the Erb Group of Companies, was easily distracted by the heavy trucks rumbling past his classroom window in rural Ontario on their way to the nearby gravel pit. It was here that his life-long dream of being a trucker was born. “Oh, just […]
Continue readingThe Story At the height of the 1970s oil crisis, Canadian immigrant entrepreneur Wolfgang Schroeter learned about his father in law’s intent to purchase a wood stove for his house. Since business was slow at the small railings company he was operating out of Barrie, Ontario, at the time, Wolfgang offered to build him one […]
Continue readingThe Story For Grand Valley founder and Chairman, Jim Ross, starting his own company over fifty years ago was a means to an end: the means was growing a business and the end was serving Ontario’s farmers and supporting Christian missions around the world. From the earliest days, Jim dedicated considerable company resources to making […]
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